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Eric Blake 544a373159 qapi: Don't box branches of flat unions
There's no reason to do two malloc's for a flat union; let's just
inline the branch struct directly into the C union branch of the
flat union.

Surprisingly, fewer clients were actually using explicit references
to the branch types in comparison to the number of flat unions
thus modified.

This lets us reduce the hack in qapi-types:gen_variants() added in
the previous patch; we no longer need to distinguish between
alternates and flat unions.

The change to unboxed structs means that u.data (added in commit
cee2dedb) is now coincident with random fields of each branch of
the flat union, whereas beforehand it was only coincident with
pointers (since all branches of a flat union have to be objects).
Note that this was already the case for simple unions - but there
we got lucky.  Remember, visit_start_union() blindly returns true
for all visitors except for the dealloc visitor, where it returns
the value !!obj->u.data, and that this result then controls
whether to proceed with the visit to the variant.  Pre-patch,
this meant that flat unions were testing whether the boxed pointer
was still NULL, and thereby skipping visit_end_implicit_struct()
and avoiding a NULL dereference if the pointer had not been
allocated.  The same was true for simple unions where the current
branch had pointer type, except there we bypassed visit_type_FOO().
But for simple unions where the current branch had scalar type, the
contents of that scalar meant that the decision to call
visit_type_FOO() was data-dependent - the reason we got lucky there
is that visit_type_FOO() for all scalar types in the dealloc visitor
is a no-op (only the pointer variants had anything to free), so it
did not matter whether the dealloc visit was skipped.  But with this
patch, we would risk leaking memory if we could skip a call to
visit_type_FOO_fields() based solely on a data-dependent decision.

But notice: in the dealloc visitor, visit_type_FOO() already handles
a NULL obj - it was only the visit_type_implicit_FOO() that was
failing to check for NULL. And now that we have refactored things to
have the branch be part of the parent struct, we no longer have a
separate pointer that can be NULL in the first place.  So we can just
delete the call to visit_start_union() altogether, and blindly visit
the branch type; there is no change in behavior except to the dealloc
visitor, where we now unconditionally visit the branch, but where that
visit is now always safe (for a flat union, we can no longer
dereference NULL, and for a simple union, visit_type_FOO() was already
safely handling NULL on pointer types).

Unfortunately, simple unions are not as easy to switch to unboxed
layout; because we are special-casing the hidden implicit type with
a single 'data' member, we really DO need to keep calling another
layer of visit_start_struct(), with a second malloc; although there
are some cleanups planned for simple unions in later patches.

visit_start_union() and gen_visit_implicit_struct() are now unused.
Drop them.

Note that after this patch, the only remaining use of
visit_start_implicit_struct() is for alternate types; the next patch
will do further cleanup based on that fact.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-14-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Dead code deletion squashed in, commit message updated accordingly]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-19 11:08:57 +01:00
Eric Blake becceedc4d qapi: Don't box struct branch of alternate
There's no reason to do two malloc's for an alternate type visiting
a QAPI struct; let's just inline the struct directly as the C union
branch of the struct.

Surprisingly, no clients were actually using the struct member prior
to this patch outside of the testsuite; an earlier patch in the series
added some testsuite coverage to make the effect of this patch more
obvious.

In qapi.py, c_type() gains a new is_unboxed flag to control when we
are emitting a C struct unboxed within the context of an outer
struct (different from our other two modes of usage with no flags
for normal local variable declarations, and with is_param for adding
'const' in a parameter list).  I don't know if there is any more
pythonic way of collapsing the two flags into a single parameter,
as we never have a caller setting both flags at once.

Ultimately, we want to also unbox branches for QAPI unions, but as
that touches a lot more client code, it is better as separate
patches.  But since unions and alternates share gen_variants(), I
had to hack in a way to test if we are visiting an alternate type
for setting the is_unboxed flag: look for a non-object branch.
This works because alternates have at least two branches, with at
most one object branch, while unions have only object branches.
The hack will go away in a later patch.

The generated code difference to qapi-types.h is relatively small:

| struct BlockdevRef {
|     QType type;
|     union { /* union tag is @type */
|         void *data;
|-        BlockdevOptions *definition;
|+        BlockdevOptions definition;
|         char *reference;
|     } u;
| };

The corresponding spot in qapi-visit.c calls visit_type_FOO(), which
first calls visit_start_struct() to allocate or deallocate the member
and handle a layer of {} from the JSON stream, then visits the
members.  To peel off the indirection and the memory management that
comes with it, we inline this call, then suppress allocation /
deallocation by passing NULL to visit_start_struct(), and adjust the
member visit:

|     switch ((*obj)->type) {
|     case QTYPE_QDICT:
|-        visit_type_BlockdevOptions(v, name, &(*obj)->u.definition, &err);
|+        visit_start_struct(v, name, NULL, 0, &err);
|+        if (err) {
|+            break;
|+        }
|+        visit_type_BlockdevOptions_fields(v, &(*obj)->u.definition, &err);
|+        error_propagate(errp, err);
|+        err = NULL;
|+        visit_end_struct(v, &err);
|         break;
|     case QTYPE_QSTRING:
|         visit_type_str(v, name, &(*obj)->u.reference, &err);

The visit of non-object fields is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-13-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-19 11:08:57 +01:00
Eric Blake 1de5d4ca07 qapi: Emit structs used as variants in topological order
Right now, we emit the branches of union types as a boxed pointer,
and it suffices to have a forward declaration of the type.  However,
a future patch will swap things to directly use the branch type,
instead of hiding it behind a pointer.  For this to work, the
compiler needs the full definition of the type, not just a forward
declaration, prior to the union that is including the branch type.
This patch just adds topological sorting to hoist all types
mentioned in a branch of a union to be fully declared before the
union itself.  The sort is always possible, because we do not
allow circular union types that include themselves as a direct
branch (it is, however, still possible to include a branch type
that itself has a pointer to the union, for a type that can
indirectly recursively nest itself - that remains safe, because
that the member of the branch type will remain a pointer, and the
QMP representation of such a type adds another {} for each recurring
layer of the union type).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-11-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-19 11:08:57 +01:00
Eric Blake e65d89bf1a qapi: Adjust layout of FooList types
By sticking the next pointer first, we don't need a union with
64-bit padding for smaller types.  On 32-bit platforms, this
can reduce the size of uint8List from 16 bytes (or 12, depending
on whether 64-bit ints can tolerate 4-byte alignment) down to 8.
It has no effect on 64-bit platforms (where alignment still
dictates a 16-byte struct); but fewer anonymous unions is still
a win in my book.

It requires visit_next_list() to gain a size parameter, to know
what size element to allocate; comparable to the size parameter
of visit_start_struct().

I debated about going one step further, to allow for fewer casts,
by doing:
    typedef GenericList GenericList;
    struct GenericList {
        GenericList *next;
    };
    struct FooList {
        GenericList base;
        Foo *value;
    };
so that you convert to 'GenericList *' by '&foolist->base', and
back by 'container_of(generic, GenericList, base)' (as opposed to
the existing '(GenericList *)foolist' and '(FooList *)generic').
But doing that would require hoisting the declaration of
GenericList prior to inclusion of qapi-types.h, rather than its
current spot in visitor.h; it also makes iteration a bit more
verbose through 'foolist->base.next' instead of 'foolist->next'.

Note that for lists of objects, the 'value' payload is still
hidden behind a boxed pointer.  Someday, it would be nice to do:

struct FooList {
    FooList *next;
    Foo value;
};

for one less level of malloc for each list element.  This patch
is a step in that direction (now that 'next' is no longer at a
fixed non-zero offset within the struct, we can store more than
just a pointer's-worth of data as the value payload), but the
actual conversion would be a task for another series, as it will
touch a lot of code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1455778109-6278-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-19 11:08:57 +01:00
Eric Blake 9167ebd98f qapi: Clean up includes in generated files
As a followup to commit cbf2115, clean up the includes in files
generated by QAPI so that osdep.h is included first in .c files,
and headers which it implies are not included manually.  This
patch is done manually, since Coccinelle (and therefore
scripts/clean-includes) doesn't see into the generator scripts.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2016-02-16 14:29:27 +00:00
Eric Blake 51e72bc1dd qapi: Swap visit_* arguments for consistent 'name' placement
JSON uses "name":value, but many of our visitor interfaces were
called with visit_type_FOO(v, &value, name, errp).  This can be
a bit confusing to have to mentally swap the parameter order to
match JSON order.  It's particularly bad for visit_start_struct(),
where the 'name' parameter is smack in the middle of the
otherwise-related group of 'obj, kind, size' parameters! It's
time to do a global swap of the parameter ordering, so that the
'name' parameter is always immediately after the Visitor argument.

Additional reason in favor of the swap: the existing include/qjson.h
prefers listing 'name' first in json_prop_*(), and I have plans to
unify that file with the qapi visitors; listing 'name' first in
qapi will minimize churn to the (admittedly few) qjson.h clients.

Later patches will then fix docs, object.h, visitor-impl.h, and
those clients to match.

Done by first patching scripts/qapi*.py by hand to make generated
files do what I want, then by running the following Coccinelle
script to affect the rest of the code base:
 $ spatch --sp-file script `git grep -l '\bvisit_' -- '**/*.[ch]'`
I then had to apply some touchups (Coccinelle insisted on TAB
indentation in visitor.h, and botched the signature of
visit_type_enum() by rewriting 'const char *const strings[]' to
the syntactically invalid 'const char*const[] strings').  The
movement of parameters is sufficient to provoke compiler errors
if any callers were missed.

    // Part 1: Swap declaration order
    @@
    type TV, TErr, TObj, T1, T2;
    identifier OBJ, ARG1, ARG2;
    @@
     void visit_start_struct
    -(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, const char *name, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
    +(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
     { ... }

    @@
    type bool, TV, T1;
    identifier ARG1;
    @@
     bool visit_optional
    -(TV v, T1 ARG1, const char *name)
    +(TV v, const char *name, T1 ARG1)
     { ... }

    @@
    type TV, TErr, TObj, T1;
    identifier OBJ, ARG1;
    @@
     void visit_get_next_type
    -(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, const char *name, TErr errp)
    +(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, TErr errp)
     { ... }

    @@
    type TV, TErr, TObj, T1, T2;
    identifier OBJ, ARG1, ARG2;
    @@
     void visit_type_enum
    -(TV v, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, const char *name, TErr errp)
    +(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, T1 ARG1, T2 ARG2, TErr errp)
     { ... }

    @@
    type TV, TErr, TObj;
    identifier OBJ;
    identifier VISIT_TYPE =~ "^visit_type_";
    @@
     void VISIT_TYPE
    -(TV v, TObj OBJ, const char *name, TErr errp)
    +(TV v, const char *name, TObj OBJ, TErr errp)
     { ... }

    // Part 2: swap caller order
    @@
    expression V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR;
    identifier VISIT_TYPE =~ "^visit_type_";
    @@
    (
    -visit_start_struct(V, OBJ, ARG1, NAME, ARG2, ERR)
    +visit_start_struct(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR)
    |
    -visit_optional(V, ARG1, NAME)
    +visit_optional(V, NAME, ARG1)
    |
    -visit_get_next_type(V, OBJ, ARG1, NAME, ERR)
    +visit_get_next_type(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ERR)
    |
    -visit_type_enum(V, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, NAME, ERR)
    +visit_type_enum(V, NAME, OBJ, ARG1, ARG2, ERR)
    |
    -VISIT_TYPE(V, OBJ, NAME, ERR)
    +VISIT_TYPE(V, NAME, OBJ, ERR)
    )

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1454075341-13658-19-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-02-08 17:29:56 +01:00
Eric Blake 0b2e84ba77 qapi-types: Drop unnedeed ._fwdefn
Previously, the generated code in qapi-types.c initialized all
enum lookup tables first, prior to any other definitions.  But
there are no topological sorting requirements that mandate this
layout, so we can drop the QAPISchemaGenTypeVisitor._fwdefn
field and just generate all definitions in visitation order.

The generated code shows some churn due to reordering, but it
is still fairly straightforward to follow (all the deletions
occur in one hunk, and all the deleted lines are re-inserted
in the same order later in the same files, just spread across
multiple insertion points).

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-6-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:28 +01:00
Eric Blake 0426d53c65 qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types
Previously, working with alternates required two lookup arrays
and some indirection: for type Foo, we created Foo_qtypes[]
which maps each qtype to a value of the generated FooKind enum,
then look up that value in FooKind_lookup[] like we do for other
union types.

This has a couple of subtle bugs.  First, the generator was
creating a call with a parameter '(int *) &(*obj)->type' where
type is an enum type; this is unsafe if the compiler chooses
to store the enum type in a different size than int, where
assigning through the wrong size pointer can corrupt data or
cause a SIGBUS.

Related bug, not not fixed in this patch: qapi-visit.py's
gen_visit_enum() generates a cast of its enum * argument to
int *. Marked FIXME.

Second, since the values of the FooKind enum start at zero, all
entries of the Foo_qtypes[] array that were not explicitly
initialized will map to the same branch of the union as the
first member of the alternate, rather than triggering a desired
failure in visit_get_next_type().  Fortunately, the bug seldom
bites; the very next thing the input visitor does is try to
parse the incoming JSON with the wrong parser, which normally
fails; the output visitor is not used with a C struct in that
state, and the dealloc visitor has nothing to clean up (so
there is no leak).

However, the second bug IS observable in one case: parsing an
integer causes unusual behavior in an alternate that contains
at least a 'number' member but no 'int' member, because the
'number' parser accepts QTYPE_QINT in addition to the expected
QTYPE_QFLOAT (that is, since 'int' is not a member, the type
QTYPE_QINT accidentally maps to FooKind 0; if this enum value
is the 'number' branch the integer parses successfully, but if
the 'number' branch is not first, some other branch tries to
parse the integer and rejects it).  A later patch will worry
about fixing alternates to always parse all inputs that a
non-alternate 'number' would accept, for now this is still
marked FIXME in the updated test-qmp-input-visitor.c, to
merely point out that new undesired behavior of 'ans' matches
the existing undesired behavior of 'asn'.

This patch fixes the default-initialization bug by deleting the
indirection, and modifying get_next_type() to directly assign a
QTypeCode parameter.  This in turn fixes the type-casting bug,
as we are no longer casting a pointer to enum to a questionable
size. There is no longer a need to generate an implicit FooKind
enum associated with the alternate type (since the QMP wire
format never uses the stringized counterparts of the C union
member names).  Since the updated visit_get_next_type() does not
know which qtypes are expected, the generated visitor is
modified to generate an error statement if an unexpected type is
encountered.

Callers now have to know the QTYPE_* mapping when looking at the
discriminator; but so far, only the testsuite was even using the
C struct of an alternate types.  I considered the possibility of
keeping the internal enum FooKind, but initialized differently
than most generated arrays, as in:
  typedef enum FooKind {
      FOO_KIND_A = QTYPE_QDICT,
      FOO_KIND_B = QTYPE_QINT,
  } FooKind;
to create nicer aliases for knowing when to use foo->a or foo->b
when inspecting foo->type; but it turned out to add too much
complexity, especially without a client.

There is a user-visible side effect to this change, but I
consider it to be an improvement. Previously,
the invalid QMP command:
  {"execute":"blockdev-add", "arguments":{"options":
    {"driver":"raw", "id":"a", "file":true}}}
failed with:
  {"error": {"class": "GenericError",
    "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: QDict"}}
(visit_get_next_type() succeeded, and the error comes from the
visit_type_BlockdevOptions() expecting {}; there is no mention of
the fact that a string would also work).  Now it fails with:
  {"error": {"class": "GenericError",
    "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: BlockdevRef"}}
(the error when the next type doesn't match any expected types for
the overall alternate).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-5-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:28 +01:00
Eric Blake 7264f5c50c qapi: Convert QType into QAPI built-in enum type
What's more meta than using qapi to define qapi? :)

Convert QType into a full-fledged[*] builtin qapi enum type, so
that a subsequent patch can then use it as the discriminator
type of qapi alternate types.  Fortunately, the judicious use of
'prefix' in the qapi definition avoids churn to the spelling of
the enum constants.

To avoid circular definitions, we have to flip the order of
inclusion between "qobject.h" vs. "qapi-types.h".  Back in commit
28770e0, we had the latter include the former, so that we could
use 'QObject *' for our implementation of 'any'.  But that usage
also works with only a forward declaration, whereas the
definition of QObject requires QType to be a complete type.

[*] The type has to be builtin, rather than declared in
qapi/common.json, because we want to use it for alternates even
when common.json is not included. But since it is the first
builtin enum type, we have to add special cases to qapi-types
and qapi-visit to only emit definitions once, even when two
qapi files are being compiled into the same binary (the way we
already handled builtin list types like 'intList').  We may
need to revisit how multiple qapi files share common types,
but that's a project for another day.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:28 +01:00
Eric Blake 7d9586f900 qapi-types: Simplify gen_struct_field[s]
Simplify gen_struct_fields() back to a single iteration over a
list of fields (like it was prior to commit f87ab7f9), by moving
the generated comments to gen_object().  Then, inline
gen_struct_field() into its only caller.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447836791-369-4-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:26 +01:00
Eric Blake 570cd8d119 qapi-types: Consolidate gen_struct() and gen_union()
These two methods are now close enough that we can finally merge
them, relying on the fact that simple unions now provide a
reasonable local_members.  Change gen_struct() to gen_object()
that handles all forms of QAPISchemaObjectType, and rename and
shrink gen_union() to gen_variants() to handle the portion of
gen_object() needed when variants are present.

gen_struct_fields() now has a single caller, so it no longer
needs an optional parameter; however, I did not choose to inline
it into the caller.

No difference to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447836791-369-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:26 +01:00
Eric Blake da34a9bd99 qapi: Track simple union tag in object.local_members
We were previously creating all unions with an empty list for
local_members.  However, it will make it easier to unify struct
and union generation if we include the generated tag member in
local_members.  That way, we can have a common code pattern:
visit the base (if any), visit the local members (if any), visit
the variants (if any).  The local_members of a flat union
remains empty (because the discriminator is already visited as
part of the base).  Then, by visiting tag_member.check() during
AlternateType.check(), we no longer need to call it during
Variants.check().

The various front end entities now exist as follows:
struct: optional base, optional local_members, no variants
simple union: no base, one-element local_members, variants with tag_member
  from local_members
flat union: base, no local_members, variants with tag_member from base
alternate: no base, no local_members, variants

With the new local members, we require a bit of finesse to
avoid assertions in the clients.

No change to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447836791-369-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-12-17 08:21:26 +01:00
Eric Blake 32bc6879be qapi: Simplify gen_struct_field()
Rather than having all callers pass a name, type, and optional
flag, have them instead pass a QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember which
already has all that information.

No change to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-25-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:28 +01:00
Eric Blake e4ba22b319 qapi: Finish converting to new qapi union layout
We have two issues with our qapi union layout:
1) Even though the QMP wire format spells the tag 'type', the
C code spells it 'kind', requiring some hacks in the generator.
2) The C struct uses an anonymous union, which places all tag
values in the same namespace as all non-variant members. This
leads to spurious collisions if a tag value matches a non-variant
member's name.

This patch is the back end for a series that converts to a
saner qapi union layout.  Now that all clients have been
converted to use 'type' and 'obj->u.value', we can drop the
temporary parallel support for 'kind' and 'obj->value'.

Given a simple union qapi type:

{ 'union':'Foo', 'data': { 'a':'int', 'b':'bool' } }

this is the overall effect, when compared to the state before
this series of patches:

| struct Foo {
|-    FooKind kind;
|-    union { /* union tag is @kind */
|+    FooKind type;
|+    union { /* union tag is @type */
|         void *data;
|         int64_t a;
|         bool b;
|-    };
|+    } u;
| };

The testsuite still contains some examples of artificial restrictions
(see flat-union-clash-type.json, for example) that are no longer
technically necessary, now that there is no longer a collision between
enum tag values and non-variant member names; but fixing this will be
done in later patches, in part because some further changes are required
to keep QAPISchema*.check() from asserting.  Also, a later patch will
add a reservation for the member name 'u' to avoid a collision between a
user's non-variant names and our internal choice of C union name.

Note, however, that we do not rename the generated enum, which
is still 'FooKind'.  A further patch could generate implicit
enums as 'FooType', but while the generator already reserved
the '*Kind' namespace (commit 4dc2e69), there are already QMP
constructs with '*Type' naming, which means changing our
reservation namespace would have lots of churn to C code to
deal with a forced name change.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-23-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:28 +01:00
Eric Blake f51d8fab44 qapi: Start converting to new qapi union layout
We have two issues with our qapi union layout:
1) Even though the QMP wire format spells the tag 'type', the
C code spells it 'kind', requiring some hacks in the generator.
2) The C struct uses an anonymous union, which places all tag
values in the same namespace as all non-variant members. This
leads to spurious collisions if a tag value matches a non-variant
member's name.

This patch is the front end for a series that converts to a
saner qapi union layout.  By the end of the series, we will no
longer have the type/kind mismatch, and all tag values will be
under a named union, which requires clients to access
'obj->u.value' instead of 'obj->value'.  But since the
conversion touches a number of files, it is easiest if we
temporarily support BOTH layouts simultaneously.

Given a simple union qapi type:

{ 'union':'Foo', 'data': { 'a':'int', 'b':'bool' } }

make the following changes in generated qapi-types.h:

| struct Foo {
|-    FooKind kind;
|-    union { /* union tag is @kind */
|+    union {
|+        FooKind kind;
|+        FooKind type;
|+    };
|+    union { /* union tag is @type */
|         void *data;
|         int64_t a;
|         bool b;
|+        union { /* union tag is @type */
|+            void *data;
|+            int64_t a;
|+            bool b;
|+        } u;
|     };
| };

Flat unions do not need the anonymous union for the tag member,
as we already fixed that to use the member name instead of 'kind'
back in commit 0f61af3e.

One additional change is needed in qapi.py: check_union() now
needs to check for collisions with 'type' in addition to those
with 'kind'.

Later, when the conversions are complete, we will remove the
duplication hacks, and also drop the check_union() restrictions.

Note, however, that we do not rename the generated enum, which
is still 'FooKind'.  A further patch could generate implicit
enums as 'FooType', but while the generator already reserved
the '*Kind' namespace (commit 4dc2e69), there are already QMP
constructs with '*Type' naming, which means changing our
reservation namespace would have lots of churn to C code to
deal with a forced name change.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-13-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked slightly]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:27 +01:00
Eric Blake ddf2190896 qapi: Unbox base members
Rather than storing a base class as a pointer to a box, just
store the fields of that base class in the same order, so that
a child struct can be directly cast to its parent.  This gives
less malloc overhead, less pointer dereferencing, and even less
generated code.  Compare to the earlier commit 1e6c1616a "qapi:
Generate a nicer struct for flat unions" (although that patch
had fewer places to change, as less of qemu was directly using
qapi structs for flat unions).  It also allows us to turn on
automatic type-safe wrappers for upcasting to the base class
of a struct.

Changes to the generated code look like this in qapi-types.h:

| struct SpiceChannel {
|-    SpiceBasicInfo *base;
|+    /* Members inherited from SpiceBasicInfo: */
|+    char *host;
|+    char *port;
|+    NetworkAddressFamily family;
|+    /* Own members: */
|     int64_t connection_id;

as well as additional upcast functions like qapi_SpiceChannel_base().
Meanwhile, changes to qapi-visit.c look like:

| static void visit_type_SpiceChannel_fields(Visitor *v, SpiceChannel **obj, Error **errp)
| {
|     Error *err = NULL;
|
|-    visit_type_implicit_SpiceBasicInfo(v, &(*obj)->base, &err);
|+    visit_type_SpiceBasicInfo_fields(v, (SpiceBasicInfo **)obj, &err);
|     if (err) {

(the cast is necessary, since our upcast wrappers only deal with a
single pointer, not pointer-to-pointer); plus the wholesale
elimination of some now-unused visit_type_implicit_FOO() functions.

Without boxing, the corner case of one empty struct having
another empty struct as its base type now requires inserting a
dummy member (previously, the 'Base *base' member sufficed).

And now that we no longer consume a 'base' member in the generated
C struct, we can delete the former negative struct-base-clash-base
test.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-11-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked slightly]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:26 +01:00
Eric Blake 30594fe1cd qapi: Prefer typesafe upcasts to qapi base classes
A previous patch (commit 1e6c1616) made it possible to
directly cast from a qapi flat union type to its base type.
However, it requires the use of a C cast, which turns off
compiler type-safety checks.  Fortunately, no such casts
exist, just yet.

Regardless, add inline type-safe wrappers named
qapi_FOO_base() for any union type FOO that has a base,
which can be used for a safer upcast, and enhance the
testsuite to cover the new functionality.

A future patch will extend the upcast support to structs,
where such conversions do exist already.

Note that C makes const-correct upcasts annoying because
it lacks overloads; these functions cast away const so that
they can accept user pointers whether const or not, and the
result in turn can be assigned to normal or const pointers.
Alternatively, this could have been done with macros, but
type-safe macros are hairy, and not worthwhile here.

This patch just adds upcasts.  None of our code needed to
downcast from a base qapi class to a child.  Also, in the
case of grandchildren (such as BlockdevOptionsQcow2), the
caller will need to call two functions to get to the inner
base (although it wouldn't be too hard to generate a
qapi_FOO_base_base() if desired).  If a user changes qapi
to alter the base class hierarchy, such as going from
'A -> C' to 'A -> B -> C', it will change the type of
'qapi_C_base()', and the compiler will point out the places
that are affected by the new base.

One alternative was proposed, but was deemed too ugly to use
in practice: the generators could output redundant
information using anonymous types:
| struct Child {
|     union {
|         struct {
|             Type1 parent_member1;
|             Type2 parent_member2;
|         };
|         Parent base;
|     };
| };
With that ugly proposal, for a given qapi type, obj->member
and obj->base.member would refer to the same storage; allowing
convenience in working with members without needing 'base.'
allowing typesafe upcast without needing a C cast by accessing
'&obj->base', and allowing downcasts from the parent back to
the child possible through container_of(obj, Child, base).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:26 +01:00
Eric Blake f87ab7f9bd qapi-types: Refactor base fields output
Move code from gen_union() into gen_struct_fields() in order for
a later patch to share code when enumerating inherited fields
for struct types.

No change to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-9-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-02 08:30:26 +01:00
Eric Blake 49823c4b43 qapi: Don't use info as witness of implicit object type
A future patch will enable error reporting from the various
QAPISchema*.check() methods.  But to report an error related
to an implicit type, we'll need to associate a location with
the type (the same location as the top-level entity that is
causing the creation of the implicit type), and once we do
that, keying off of whether foo.info exists is no longer a
viable way to determine if foo is an implicit type.

Instead, add an is_implicit() method to QAPISchemaEntity, and use it.
It can be overridden later for ObjectType and EnumType, when implicit
instances of those classes gain info.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1444710158-8723-8-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-10-15 08:39:08 +02:00
Eric Blake 25a0d9c977 qapi: Use predicate callback to determine visit filtering
Previously, qapi-types and qapi-visit filtered out implicit
objects during visit_object_type() by using 'info' (works since
implicit objects do not [yet] have associated info); meanwhile
qapi-introspect filtered out all schema types on the first pass
by returning a python type from visit_begin(), which was then
used at a distance in QAPISchema.visit() to do the filtering.

Rather than keeping these ad hoc approaches, add a new visitor
callback visit_needed() which returns False to skip a given
entity, and which defaults to True unless overridden.  Use the
new mechanism to simplify all three filtering visitors.

No change to the generated code.

Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1444710158-8723-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-10-15 08:39:07 +02:00
Eric Blake f8b7f1a8ea qapi: Consistent generated code: prefer visitor 'v'
We had some pointless differences in the generated code for visit,
command marshalling, and events; unifying them makes it easier for
future patches to consolidate to common helper functions.
This is one patch of a series to clean up these differences.

This patch names the local visitor variable 'v' rather than 'm'.
Related objects, such as 'QapiDeallocVisitor', are also named by
their initials instead of an unrelated leading m.

No change in semantics to the generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1443565276-4535-12-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-10-12 18:46:49 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 28770e057f qapi: Introduce a first class 'any' type
It's first class, because unlike '**', it actually works, i.e. doesn't
require 'gen': false.

'**' will go away next.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-09-21 09:56:49 +02:00
Markus Armbruster e98859a9b9 qapi: Clean up after recent conversions to QAPISchemaVisitor
Generate just 'FOO' instead of 'struct FOO' when possible.

Drop helper functions that are now unused.

Make pep8 and pylint reasonably happy.

Rename generate_FOO() functions to gen_FOO() for consistency.

Use more consistent and sensible variable names.

Consistently use c_ for mapping keys when their value is a C
identifier or type.

Simplify gen_enum() and gen_visit_union()

Consistently use single quotes for C text string literals.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1442401589-24189-14-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-21 09:56:48 +02:00
Markus Armbruster efd2eaa6c2 qapi: De-duplicate enum code generation
Duplicated in commit 21cd70d.  Yes, we can't import qapi-types, but
that's no excuse.  Move the helpers from qapi-types.py to qapi.py, and
replace the duplicates in qapi-event.py.

The generated event enumeration type's lookup table becomes
const-correct (see commit 2e4450f), and uses explicit indexes instead
of relying on order (see commit 912ae9c).

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1442401589-24189-10-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-21 09:56:47 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 2b162ccbe8 qapi-types: Convert to QAPISchemaVisitor, fixing flat unions
Fixes flat unions to get the base's base members.  Test case is from
commit 2fc0043, in qapi-schema-test.json:

    { 'union': 'UserDefFlatUnion',
      'base': 'UserDefUnionBase',
      'discriminator': 'enum1',
      'data': { 'value1' : 'UserDefA',
                'value2' : 'UserDefB',
                'value3' : 'UserDefB' } }

    { 'struct': 'UserDefUnionBase',
      'base': 'UserDefZero',
      'data': { 'string': 'str', 'enum1': 'EnumOne' } }

    { 'struct': 'UserDefZero',
      'data': { 'integer': 'int' } }

Patch's effect on UserDefFlatUnion:

     struct UserDefFlatUnion {
         /* Members inherited from UserDefUnionBase: */
    +    int64_t integer;
         char *string;
         EnumOne enum1;
         /* Own members: */
         union { /* union tag is @enum1 */
             void *data;
             UserDefA *value1;
             UserDefB *value2;
             UserDefB *value3;
         };
     };

Flat union visitors remain broken.  They'll be fixed next.

Code is generated in a different order now, but that doesn't matter.

The two guards QAPI_TYPES_BUILTIN_STRUCT_DECL and
QAPI_TYPES_BUILTIN_CLEANUP_DECL are replaced by just
QAPI_TYPES_BUILTIN.

Two ugly special cases for simple unions now stand out like sore
thumbs:

1. The type tag is named 'type' everywhere, except in generated C,
   where it's 'kind'.

2. QAPISchema lowers simple unions to semantically equivalent flat
   unions.  However, the C generated for a simple unions differs from
   the C generated for its equivalent flat union, and we therefore
   need special code to preserve that pointless difference for now.

Mark both TODO.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-21 09:53:16 +02:00
Markus Armbruster ac88219a6c qapi: New QAPISchema intermediate reperesentation
The QAPI code generators work with a syntax tree (nested dictionaries)
plus a few symbol tables (also dictionaries) on the side.

They have clearly outgrown these simple data structures.  There's lots
of rummaging around in dictionaries, and information is recomputed on
the fly.  For the work I'm going to do, I want more clearly defined
and more convenient interfaces.

Going forward, I also want less coupling between the back-ends and the
syntax tree, to make messing with the syntax easier.

Create a bunch of classes to represent QAPI schemata.

Have the QAPISchema initializer call the parser, then walk the syntax
tree to create the new internal representation, and finally perform
semantic analysis.

Shortcut: the semantic analysis still relies on existing check_exprs()
to do the actual semantic checking.  All this code needs to move into
the classes.  Mark as TODO.

Simple unions are lowered to flat unions.  Flat unions and structs are
represented as a more general object type.

Catching name collisions in generated code would be nice.  Mark as
TODO.

We generate array types eagerly, even though most of them aren't used.
Mark as TODO.

Nothing uses the new intermediate representation just yet, thus no
change to generated files.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-21 09:31:29 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange 351d36e454 qapi: allow override of default enum prefix naming
The camel_to_upper() method applies some heuristics to turn
a mixed case type name into an all-uppercase name. This is
used for example, to generate enum constant name prefixes.

The heuristics don't also generate a satisfactory name
though. eg

  { 'enum': 'QCryptoTLSCredsEndpoint',
    'data': ['client', 'server']}

Results in Q_CRYPTOTLS_CREDS_ENDPOINT_CLIENT. This has
an undesirable _ after the initial Q and is missing an
_ between the CRYPTO & TLS strings.

Rather than try to add more and more heuristics to try
to cope with this, simply allow the QAPI schema to
specify the desired enum constant prefix explicitly.

eg

  { 'enum': 'QCryptoTLSCredsEndpoint',
    'prefix': 'QCRYPTO_TLS_CREDS_ENDPOINT',
    'data': ['client', 'server']}

Now gives the QCRYPTO_TLS_CREDS_ENDPOINT_CLIENT name.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2015-09-15 10:59:28 +01:00
Markus Armbruster 3a864e7c52 qapi: Generated code cleanup
Clean up white-space, brace placement, and superfluous #ifdef
QAPI_TYPES_BUILTIN_CLEANUP_DEF.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 15:47:16 +02:00
Eric Blake ca56a822dd qapi: Document shortcoming with union 'data' branch
Add a FIXME to remind us to fully audit whether removing the
'void *data' branch of each qapi union type can be done safely.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1438297637-26789-1-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 15:47:14 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 1e6c1616a9 qapi: Generate a nicer struct for flat unions
The struct generated for a flat union is weird: the members of its
base are at the end, except for the union tag, which is at the
beginning.

Example: qapi-schema-test.json has

    { 'struct': 'UserDefUnionBase',
      'data': { 'string': 'str', 'enum1': 'EnumOne' } }

    { 'union': 'UserDefFlatUnion',
      'base': 'UserDefUnionBase',
      'discriminator': 'enum1',
      'data': { 'value1' : 'UserDefA',
                'value2' : 'UserDefB',
                'value3' : 'UserDefB' } }

We generate:

    struct UserDefFlatUnion
    {
        EnumOne enum1;
        union {
            void *data;
            UserDefA *value1;
            UserDefB *value2;
            UserDefB *value3;
        };
        char *string;
    };

Change to put all base members at the beginning, unadulterated.  Not
only is this easier to understand, it also permits casting the flat
union to its base, if that should become useful.

We now generate:

    struct UserDefFlatUnion
    {
        /* Members inherited from UserDefUnionBase: */
        char *string;
        EnumOne enum1;
        /* Own members: */
        union { /* union tag is @enum1 */
            void *data;
            UserDefA *value1;
            UserDefB *value2;
            UserDefB *value3;
        };
    };

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 15:47:13 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 0f61af3eb3 qapi: Fix generated code when flat union has member 'kind'
A flat union's tag member gets renamed to 'kind' in the generated
code.  Breaks when another member named 'kind' exists.

Example, adapted from qapi-schema-test.json:

    { 'struct': 'UserDefUnionBase',
      'data': { 'kind': 'str', 'enum1': 'EnumOne' } }

We generate:

    struct UserDefFlatUnion
    {
        EnumOne kind;
        union {
            void *data;
            UserDefA *value1;
            UserDefB *value2;
            UserDefB *value3;
        };
        char *kind;
    };

Kill the silly rename.

Reported-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 15:47:13 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 5aa05d3f72 qapi: Drop unused and useless parameters and variables
gen_sync_call()'s parameter indent is useless: gen_sync_call() uses it
only as optional argument for push_indent() and pop_indent(), their
default is four, and gen_sync_call()'s only caller passes four.  Drop
the parameter.

gen_visitor_input_containers_decl()'s parameter obj is always
"QOBJECT(args)".  Use that, and drop the parameter.

Drop unused parameters of gen_marshal_output(),
gen_marshal_input_decl(), generate_visit_struct_body(),
generate_visit_list(), generate_visit_enum(), generate_declaration(),
generate_enum_declaration(), generate_decl_enum().

Drop unused variables in generate_event_enum_lookup(),
generate_enum_lookup(), generate_visit_struct_fields(), check_event().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-09-04 15:47:13 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange 2e4450ff43 qom: Make enum string tables const-correct
The enum string table parameters in various QOM/QAPI methods
are declared 'const char *strings[]'. This results in const
warnings if passed a variable that was declared as

   static const char * const strings[] = { .... };

Add the extra const annotation to the parameters, since
neither the string elements, nor the array itself should
ever be modified.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
2015-06-19 18:42:18 +02:00
Markus Armbruster e1d4210c3a qapi-types: Bury code dead since commit 6b5abc7
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-06-18 14:19:48 +02:00
Markus Armbruster c5ecd7e18f qapi-types: Split generate_fwd_builtin() off generate_fwd_struct()
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-06-18 14:19:48 +02:00
Markus Armbruster ae0a7a1090 qapi-types: Drop unused members parameters
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-06-18 14:19:48 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 4f35680023 qapi-types: Don't filter out expressions with 'gen'
Useless, because it can only occur in commands, and we're not dealing
with commands here.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-06-18 14:19:47 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 12f8e1b9ff qapi: Factor open_output(), close_output() out of generators
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:41:32 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 2114f5a98d qapi: Factor parse_command_line() out of the generators
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:37:14 +02:00
Eric Blake d1f07c86c0 qapi: Support downstream alternates
Enhance the testsuite to cover downstream alternates, including
whether the branch name or type is downstream.  Update the
generator to mangle alternate names in the appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:21:24 +02:00
Eric Blake 857af5f06c qapi: Support downstream flat unions
Enhance the testsuite to cover downstream flat unions, including
the base type, discriminator name and type, and branch name and
type.  Update the generator to mangle the union names in the
appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:21:21 +02:00
Eric Blake bb33729043 qapi: Support downstream simple unions
Enhance the testsuite to cover downstream simple unions, including
when a union branch is a downstream name.  Update the generator to
mangle the union names in the appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:21:17 +02:00
Eric Blake 83a02706bb qapi: Support downstream structs
Enhance the testsuite to cover downstream structs, including struct
members and base structs.  Update the generator to mangle the
struct names in the appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:21:13 +02:00
Eric Blake fce384b8e5 qapi: Support downstream enums
Enhance the testsuite to cover a downstream enum type and enum
string.  Update the generator to mangle the enum name in the
appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:21:09 +02:00
Markus Armbruster b42e91484d qapi: Use c_enum_const() in generate_alternate_qtypes()
Missed in commit b0b5819.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:20:57 +02:00
Markus Armbruster 7c81c61f9c qapi: Rename generate_enum_full_value() to c_enum_const()
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:20:51 +02:00
Eric Blake 18df515ebb qapi: Rename identical c_fun()/c_var() into c_name()
Now that the two functions are identical, we only need one of them,
and we might as well give it a more descriptive name.  Basically,
the function serves as the translation from a QAPI name into a
(portion of a) C identifier, without regards to whether it is a
variable or function name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-14 18:20:42 +02:00
Eric Blake 6b5abc7df7 qapi: Drop support for inline nested types
A future patch will be using a 'name':{dictionary} entry in the
QAPI schema to specify a default value for an optional argument
(see previous commit messages for more details why); but existing
use of inline nested structs conflicts with that goal. Now that
all commands have been changed to avoid inline nested structs,
nuke support for them, and turn it into a hard error. Update the
testsuite to reflect tighter parsing rules.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:39:02 +02:00
Eric Blake fd41dd4eae qapi: Prefer 'struct' over 'type' in generator
Referring to "type" as both a meta-type (built-in, enum, union,
alternate, or struct) and a specific type (the name that the
schema uses for declaring structs) is confusing.  The confusion
is only made worse by the fact that the generator mostly already
refers to struct even when dealing with expr['type'].  This
commit changes the generator to consistently refer to it as
struct everywhere, plus a single back-compat tweak that allows
accepting the existing .json files as-is, so that the meat of
this change is separate from the mindless churn of that change.

Fix the testsuite fallout for error messages that change, and
in some cases, become more legible.  Improve comments to better
match our intentions where a struct (rather than any complex
type) is required.  Note that in some cases, an error message
now refers to 'struct' while the schema still refers to 'type';
that will be cleaned up in the later commit to the schema.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:39:01 +02:00
Eric Blake ab916faddd qapi: Use 'alternate' to replace anonymous union
Previous patches have led up to the point where I create the
new meta-type "'alternate':'Foo'".  See the previous patches
for documentation; I intentionally split as much work into
earlier patches to minimize the size of this patch, but a lot
of it is churn due to testsuite fallout after updating to the
new type.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-05-05 18:39:00 +02:00