[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] Allow the C bindings to be more permissive when a structure is missing some

[Xen patchbot-unstable <patchbot-unstable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Node ID fe15bf5a58ad52b3e09db058ca9f66b21c9f4b29
# Parent  514ed4f0e5da6eb0b0bd8727194296434c4b5005
Allow the C bindings to be more permissive when a structure is missing some
entries.  Complaining is just slowing development down when the server and
clients get out of sync.

Signed-off-by: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxen/src/xen_common.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff -r 514ed4f0e5da -r fe15bf5a58ad tools/libxen/src/xen_common.c
--- a/tools/libxen/src/xen_common.c     Tue Nov 28 15:47:52 2006 +0000
+++ b/tools/libxen/src/xen_common.c     Tue Nov 28 16:22:22 2006 +0000
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@
 #include "xen_string_string_map.h"
 
 
+/*
+ * Whether to ignore missing structure entries.  This is not something we
+ * want to do, once the API has stabilised, as it indicates that the server is
+ * broken, but at the moment, complaining is just slowing development down.
+ */
+#define PERMISSIVE 1
+
+
 static xmlXPathCompExprPtr responsePath = NULL;
 static xmlXPathCompExprPtr faultPath = NULL;
 
@@ -756,6 +764,7 @@ static void parse_into(xen_session *s, x
                 cur = cur->next;
             }
 
+#if !PERMISSIVE
             /* Check that we've filled all fields. */
             for (size_t i = 0; i < member_count; i++)
             {
@@ -780,6 +789,7 @@ static void parse_into(xen_session *s, x
                     return;
                 }
             }
+#endif
 
             free(checklist);
             ((void **)value)[slot] = result;

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