Re: Making QEMU easier for management tools and applications

[Markus Armbruster]

Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:18:41AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > Am 24.01.2020 um 11:27 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
>> >> So if we allowed YAML instead of JSON, now we get...
>> >> 
>> >>   $ cat qemu.yaml
[...]
>> >> This is finally something I'd consider to be on a par with the
>> >> original QEMU syntax, before we added hierarchical data. You
>> >> have the minimal possible amount of syntax here. No commas,
>> >> no quotes, no curly brackets, etc.
>> >
>> > This seems to have the same problems as the QEMU command line (how do
>> > you distinguish strings from ints, from bools, from null?).
>> 
>> True: YAML provides only string scalars.
>
> Actually, YAML provides  strings, integers, booleans & nulls, the same
> level of typing at JSON, but with added benefit of supporting comments
> officially:
>
>   https://rollout.io/blog/yaml-tutorial-everything-you-need-get-started/

You're right.  I read section 2.3 Scalars of the YAML spec[*], and
neglected to study sections 2.4. Tags and 10.3. Core Schema.


[*] https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html