qom: New object_property_add_new_container()

To move towards explicit creations of containers, starting that by
providing a helper for creating container objects.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20241121192202.4155849-3-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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Peter Xu 2024-11-21 14:21:51 -05:00 committed by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
parent e469b331cd
commit 6e1e04ef03
2 changed files with 23 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -2019,6 +2019,18 @@ int object_child_foreach_recursive(Object *obj,
*/
Object *container_get(Object *root, const char *path);
/**
* object_property_add_new_container:
* @obj: the parent object
* @name: the name of the parent object's property to add
*
* Add a newly created container object to a parent object.
*
* Returns: the newly created container object. Its reference count is 1,
* and the reference is owned by the parent object.
*/
Object *object_property_add_new_container(Object *obj, const char *name);
/**
* object_property_help:
* @name: the name of the property