2 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/Makefile.objs b/qapi/Makefile.objs
index 1f9c97342c..d14b769cff 100644
--- a/qapi/Makefile.objs
+++ b/qapi/Makefile.objs
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ util-obj-y += qmp-output-visitor.o qmp-registry.o qmp-dispatch.o
 util-obj-y += string-input-visitor.o string-output-visitor.o
 
 util-obj-y += opts-visitor.o
+util-obj-y += qmp-event.o
diff --git a/qapi/qmp-event.c b/qapi/qmp-event.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d1ce0bd18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qapi/qmp-event.c
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * QMP Event related
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Wenchao Xia
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Wenchao Xia   <wenchaoqemu@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+#include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp-event.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#include "sysemu/os-win32.h"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
+#include "sysemu/os-posix.h"
+#endif
+
+static QMPEventFuncEmit qmp_emit;
+
+void qmp_event_set_func_emit(QMPEventFuncEmit emit)
+{
+    qmp_emit = emit;
+}
+
+QMPEventFuncEmit qmp_event_get_func_emit(void)
+{
+    return qmp_emit;
+}
+
+static void timestamp_put(QDict *qdict)
+{
+    int err;
+    QObject *obj;
+    qemu_timeval tv;
+    int64_t sec, usec;
+
+    err = qemu_gettimeofday(&tv);
+    if (err < 0) {
+        /* Put -1 to indicate failure of getting host time */
+        sec = -1;
+        usec = -1;
+    } else {
+        sec = tv.tv_sec;
+        usec = tv.tv_usec;
+    }
+
+    obj = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'seconds': %" PRId64 ", "
+                             "'microseconds': %" PRId64 " }",
+                             sec, usec);
+    qdict_put_obj(qdict, "timestamp", obj);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Build a QDict, then fill event name and time stamp, caller should free the
+ * QDict after usage.
+ */
+QDict *qmp_event_build_dict(const char *event_name)
+{
+    QDict *dict = qdict_new();
+    qdict_put(dict, "event", qstring_from_str(event_name));
+    timestamp_put(dict);
+    return dict;
+}