qapi: add string-based visitors

String based visitors provide a consistent interface for parsing
strings to C values, as well as consuming C values as strings.
They will be used to parse command-line options.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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diff --git a/qapi/string-output-visitor.h b/qapi/string-output-visitor.h
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+/*
+ * String printing Visitor
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2012
+ *
+ * Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.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.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef STRING_OUTPUT_VISITOR_H
+#define STRING_OUTPUT_VISITOR_H
+
+#include "qapi-visit-core.h"
+
+typedef struct StringOutputVisitor StringOutputVisitor;
+
+StringOutputVisitor *string_output_visitor_new(void);
+void string_output_visitor_cleanup(StringOutputVisitor *v);
+
+char *string_output_get_string(StringOutputVisitor *v);
+Visitor *string_output_get_visitor(StringOutputVisitor *v);
+
+#endif