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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/*
+ * QMP Event related
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Wenchao Xia
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * Wenchao Xia <wenchaoqemu@gmail.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 QMP_EVENT_H
+#define QMP_EVENT_H
+
+#include "qapi/error.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h"
+
+typedef void (*QMPEventFuncEmit)(unsigned event, QDict *dict, Error **errp);
+
+void qmp_event_set_func_emit(QMPEventFuncEmit emit);
+
+QMPEventFuncEmit qmp_event_get_func_emit(void);
+
+QDict *qmp_event_build_dict(const char *event_name);
+#endif
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ util-obj-y += qmp-output-visitor.o qmp-registry.o qmp-dispatch.o
util-obj-y += string-input-visitor.o string-output-visitor.o
util-obj-y += opts-visitor.o
+util-obj-y += qmp-event.o
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@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * QMP Event related
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Wenchao Xia
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * Wenchao Xia <wenchaoqemu@gmail.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.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <inttypes.h>
+
+#include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp-event.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#include "sysemu/os-win32.h"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
+#include "sysemu/os-posix.h"
+#endif
+
+static QMPEventFuncEmit qmp_emit;
+
+void qmp_event_set_func_emit(QMPEventFuncEmit emit)
+{
+ qmp_emit = emit;
+}
+
+QMPEventFuncEmit qmp_event_get_func_emit(void)
+{
+ return qmp_emit;
+}
+
+static void timestamp_put(QDict *qdict)
+{
+ int err;
+ QObject *obj;
+ qemu_timeval tv;
+ int64_t sec, usec;
+
+ err = qemu_gettimeofday(&tv);
+ if (err < 0) {
+ /* Put -1 to indicate failure of getting host time */
+ sec = -1;
+ usec = -1;
+ } else {
+ sec = tv.tv_sec;
+ usec = tv.tv_usec;
+ }
+
+ obj = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'seconds': %" PRId64 ", "
+ "'microseconds': %" PRId64 " }",
+ sec, usec);
+ qdict_put_obj(qdict, "timestamp", obj);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Build a QDict, then fill event name and time stamp, caller should free the
+ * QDict after usage.
+ */
+QDict *qmp_event_build_dict(const char *event_name)
+{
+ QDict *dict = qdict_new();
+ qdict_put(dict, "event", qstring_from_str(event_name));
+ timestamp_put(dict);
+ return dict;
+}