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-rw-r--r--include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h1
-rw-r--r--qobject/qdict.c51
2 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
index 685b2e3fcb..d6855d112e 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qdict.h
@@ -65,5 +65,6 @@ int qdict_get_try_bool(const QDict *qdict, const char *key, int def_value);
const char *qdict_get_try_str(const QDict *qdict, const char *key);
QDict *qdict_clone_shallow(const QDict *src);
+void qdict_flatten(QDict *qdict);
#endif /* QDICT_H */
diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
index ed381f9a50..472f106e27 100644
--- a/qobject/qdict.c
+++ b/qobject/qdict.c
@@ -476,3 +476,54 @@ static void qdict_destroy_obj(QObject *obj)
g_free(qdict);
}
+
+static void qdict_do_flatten(QDict *qdict, QDict *target, const char *prefix)
+{
+ QObject *value;
+ const QDictEntry *entry, *next;
+ const char *new_key;
+ bool delete;
+
+ entry = qdict_first(qdict);
+
+ while (entry != NULL) {
+
+ next = qdict_next(qdict, entry);
+ value = qdict_entry_value(entry);
+ new_key = NULL;
+ delete = false;
+
+ if (prefix) {
+ qobject_incref(value);
+ new_key = g_strdup_printf("%s.%s", prefix, entry->key);
+ qdict_put_obj(target, new_key, value);
+ delete = true;
+ }
+
+ if (qobject_type(value) == QTYPE_QDICT) {
+ qdict_do_flatten(qobject_to_qdict(value), target,
+ new_key ? new_key : entry->key);
+ delete = true;
+ }
+
+ if (delete) {
+ qdict_del(qdict, entry->key);
+
+ /* Restart loop after modifying the iterated QDict */
+ entry = qdict_first(qdict);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ entry = next;
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * qdict_flatten(): For each nested QDict with key x, all fields with key y
+ * are moved to this QDict and their key is renamed to "x.y". This operation
+ * is applied recursively for nested QDicts.
+ */
+void qdict_flatten(QDict *qdict)
+{
+ qdict_do_flatten(qdict, qdict, NULL);
+}