Re: [PATCH] schemas: Add vim modeline

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/08/20 14:23, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> We'd really love to move off YAJL for JSON parsing

What are the issues with YAJL?

>> It could be avoided by using a schema in Libvirt, just like QEMU has no
>> problem with it on the other side; it's just a different design choice
>> with different trade-offs, I don't think it's enough of an issue to
>> declare JSON "the wrong choice of format for QMP".
>
> The schema doesn't help - the problem is many JSON parsers don't allow
> use of full uint64 values when parsing - alot will simply report an
> error for anything bigger than LLONG_MAX and offer no workaround.

Sure, but this problem is not at all unique to QEMU and JSON parsers
have a way to support large integers in pretty much every language
(including Javascript).  In some of them like Python or Ruby it's even
the default behavior.

Paolo