Re: [PATCH 00/54] qom/qdev: associate properties with QAPI schema types

Hi

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM Marc-André Lureau
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 11:29 AM Markus Armbruster via qemu
> development <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Along the way, a few pre-existing type mismatches in property
> > > definitions are fixed, the "struct tm" RTC property is replaced with a
> > > proper QAPI StructTm type etc. Introducing more specific types or a
> > > "typedef" to QAPI could help provide better associated type informations
> > > than plain "str" in many cases, for example.
> >
> > Examples?
> >
>
> Properties using str_type_info that carry structured values with their
> own validation: macaddr ("52:54:00:12:34:56"), PCI addresses
> ("04:00.0"), netdev names, chardev names, drive names, UUID strings. A
> QAPI "typedef" (or newtype) for e.g. MacAddr, PciDevAddr, UUID could
> let tools know these aren't arbitrary strings (see "hw/nvdimm: convert
> UUID property to QAPI-aware registration" patch).

On a related note, qapi-type for integers are all collapsed to "int"
(and list of). Even though json wire accepts "int", it would be nice
to retain the original type information.