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For example:
>>> dom.memoryStats()
libvir: QEMU Driver error : Requested operation is not valid:\
domain is not running
There are six such python API functions like so.
The root reason is that generator.py script checks the type of return
value of a python stub function defined in libvirt-api.xml or
libvirt-override-api.xml to see whether to add the raise clause or not
in python wrapper code in libvirt.py.
The type of return value is supposed to be C types.
For those stub functions which return python non-integer data type like
string, list, tuple, dictionary, the existing type in functions varies
from each other which leads problem like this.
Currently, in generator.py, it maintains a buggy whitelist for stub functions
returning a list type. I think it is easy to forget adding new function name
in the whitelist.
This patch makes the value of type consistent with C type "char *"
in libvirt-override-api.xml. For python, any of types could be printed
as string, so I choose "char *" in this case. And the comment in xml
could explain it when adding new function definition.
<function name='virNodeGetCPUStats' file='python'>
...
- <return type='virNodeCPUStats' info='...'/>
+ <return type='char *' info='...'/>
...
</function>
libvirt Python Bindings README
==============================
Most of the libvirt python binding code is automatically generated
using the script generator.py, and the API description from
docs/libvirt-api.xml
Manually written files:
- libvirt-override.c: methods where the C binding needs to be hand crafted
- libvirt-override.py: global methods where the C and python bindings have different args
- libvirt-override-api.xml: methods where the auto-extracted API docs are not
suitable for python auto-generator. Overriding this if the method is going
into libvirt-override.c, but we still want auto-generated libvirt-override.py
- libvirt-override-virConnect.py: virConnect class methods
- typewrappers.h,.c: Python object wrappers for each libvirt C object
Auto-generated files:
- libvirt.py: The main python binding. Comprises auto-generated code, along
with contents from libvirt-override.py and libvirt-override-virConnect.py
- libvirt.c, libvirt.h: The C glue layer for the python binding. Comprises
auto-generated code, along with libvirt-override.c
- libvirt-export.c: List of auto-generated C methods, included into
the libvirt-override.c method table