qom: Introduce ObjectPropertyIterator struct for iteration

Some users of QOM need to be able to iterate over properties
defined against an object instance. Currently they are just
directly using the QTAIL macros against the object properties
data structure.

This is bad because it exposes them to changes in the data
structure used to store properties, as well as changes in
functionality such as ability to register properties against
the class.

This provides an ObjectPropertyIterator struct which will
insulate the callers from the particular data structure
used to store properties. It can be used thus

  ObjectProperty *prop;
  ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;

  iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
  while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
      ... do something with prop ...
  }
  object_property_iter_free(iter);

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
[AF: Fixed examples, style cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index 0bb89d481e..9f703140bd 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -960,6 +960,55 @@ void object_property_del(Object *obj, const char *name, Error **errp);
 ObjectProperty *object_property_find(Object *obj, const char *name,
                                      Error **errp);
 
+typedef struct ObjectPropertyIterator ObjectPropertyIterator;
+
+/**
+ * object_property_iter_init:
+ * @obj: the object
+ *
+ * Initializes an iterator for traversing all properties
+ * registered against an object instance.
+ *
+ * It is forbidden to modify the property list while iterating,
+ * whether removing or adding properties.
+ *
+ * Typical usage pattern would be
+ *
+ * <example>
+ *   <title>Using object property iterators</title>
+ *   <programlisting>
+ *   ObjectProperty *prop;
+ *   ObjectPropertyIterator *iter;
+ *
+ *   iter = object_property_iter_init(obj);
+ *   while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(iter))) {
+ *     ... do something with prop ...
+ *   }
+ *   object_property_iter_free(iter);
+ *   </programlisting>
+ * </example>
+ *
+ * Returns: the new iterator
+ */
+ObjectPropertyIterator *object_property_iter_init(Object *obj);
+
+/**
+ * object_property_iter_free:
+ * @iter: the iterator instance
+ *
+ * Releases any resources associated with the iterator.
+ */
+void object_property_iter_free(ObjectPropertyIterator *iter);
+
+/**
+ * object_property_iter_next:
+ * @iter: the iterator instance
+ *
+ * Returns: the next property, or %NULL when all properties
+ * have been traversed.
+ */
+ObjectProperty *object_property_iter_next(ObjectPropertyIterator *iter);
+
 void object_unparent(Object *obj);
 
 /**