qom: Add object_new_with_props() / object_new_withpropv() helpers

It is reasonably common to want to create an object, set a
number of properties, register it in the hierarchy and then
mark it as complete (if a user creatable type). This requires
quite a lot of error prone, verbose, boilerplate code to achieve.

First a pair of functions object_set_props() / object_set_propv()
are added which allow for a list of objects to be set in
one single API call.

Then object_new_with_props() / object_new_with_propv() constructors
are added which simplify the sequence of calls to create an
object, populate properties, register in the object composition
tree and mark the object complete, into a single method call.

Usage would be:

   Error *err = NULL;
   Object *obj;
   obj = object_new_with_propv(TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE,
                               object_get_objects_root(),
                               "hostmem0",
                               &err,
                               "share", "yes",
                               "mem-path", "/dev/shm/somefile",
                               "prealloc", "yes",
                               "size", "1048576",
                               NULL);

Note all property values are passed in string form and will
be parsed into their required data types, using normal QOM
semantics for parsing from string format.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h
index ac7c4c4..df9dd51 100644
--- a/include/qemu/compiler.h
+++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
 #define QEMU_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
 #endif
 
+#if QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 0)
+#define QEMU_SENTINEL __attribute__((sentinel))
+#else
+#define QEMU_SENTINEL
+#endif
+
 #if QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ(4, 3)
 #define QEMU_ARTIFICIAL __attribute__((always_inline, artificial))
 #else