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authorFrediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>2016-09-19 14:11:51 +0100
committerFrediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>2016-10-17 11:43:49 +0100
commit4673a61cce1c81da7b4f5e2239484b57c1a4be8a (patch)
tree6a5e34495b5d84fc8ab451a5c8b58142f2bf4c15 /docs/spice_protocol.txt
parent7773c0d59b0384237b549484da9cc8cac274cf58 (diff)
More work on attribute protocol documentation
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com> Acked-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
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@@ -336,12 +336,21 @@ TODO
nomarshal
~~~~~~~~~
-TODO
+Do not generate code for marshalling this variable.
+Usually used on last array element to make possible to manually feed data.
+
+Example:
+ struct Data {
+ uint32 data_size;
+ uint8 data[data_size] @nomarshal;
+ };
zero_terminated
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-TODO
+The field should terminated by zero.
+Actually it's not used by python code so it's not enforced and no
+code is generated.
marshall
~~~~~~~~
@@ -351,12 +360,16 @@ TODO
nonnull
~~~~~~~
-TODO
+This pointer field cannot be NULL. This means that marshaller assume C structure
+contain not NULL pointer and demarshaller will fail to demarshall message if offset
+is 0.
unique_flag
~~~~~~~~~~~
-TODO
+This flag field should contain just a single flag.
+Actually it's not used by python code so it's not enforced and no
+code is generated.
ptr_array
~~~~~~~~~