Bug 760226 - RFE: Support optional argument introspection from perl
Summary: RFE: Support optional argument introspection from perl
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libguestfs
Version: 6.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: libguestfs_rebase6.3
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-05 16:46 UTC by Matthew Booth
Modified: 2011-12-05 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-12-05 16:51:28 UTC
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Description Matthew Booth 2011-12-05 16:46:40 UTC 
It is not currently possible for a perl program to determine if a particular optional argument to a guestfs API is supported in the current release. This information is available to other language bindings. A fix for this is currently available upstream.

While this enhancement will have no impact on the current release, it will allow future releases to test for the availability of optional arguments and degrade gracefully if they are not available. V2V would have used this feature for drive hints if it had been available.

The upstream patch is:


365885dab2ae6dcdf0b2c45d0adeb803ade03f63
    perl: Add %guestfs_introspection hash with introspection information.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-12-05 16:51:28 UTC 
This is already in stable-1.14, so it'll go into RHEL 6.3
by default because of the rebase.
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