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)
)
Backports commit 51e72bc1dd6ace6e91d675f41a1f09bd00ab8043 from qemu
The generated code can call visit_end_union() without having called
visit_start_union(). Example:
if (!*obj) {
goto out_obj;
}
visit_type_CpuInfoBase_fields(v, (CpuInfoBase **)obj, &err);
if (err) {
goto out_obj; // if we go from here...
}
if (!visit_start_union(v, !!(*obj)->u.data, &err) || err) {
goto out_obj;
}
switch ((*obj)->arch) {
[...]
}
out_obj:
// ... then *obj is true, and ...
error_propagate(errp, err);
err = NULL;
if (*obj) {
// we end up here
visit_end_union(v, !!(*obj)->u.data, &err);
}
error_propagate(errp, err);
Harmless only because no visitor implements end_union(). Clean it up
anyway, by deleting the function as useless.
Messed up since we have visit_end_union (commit cee2ded).
Backports commit 7c91aabd8964cfdf637f302c579c95401f21ce92 from qemu
For less code, reflect the determined boolean value of an optional
visit back to the caller instead of making the caller read the
boolean after the fact.
The resulting generated code has the following diff:
|- visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id");
|- if (has_fdset_id) {
|+ if (visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id")) {
| visit_type_int(v, &fdset_id, "fdset-id", &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
| }
| }
Backports commit 29637a6ee913df8fcdf371426ee48956b945b618 from qemu
None of the visitor callbacks would set an error when testing
if an optional field was present; make this part of the interface
contract by eliminating the errp argument.
The resulting generated code has a nice diff:
|- visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id", &err);
|- if (err) {
|- goto out;
|- }
|+ visit_optional(v, &has_fdset_id, "fdset-id");
| if (has_fdset_id) {
| visit_type_int(v, &fdset_id, "fdset-id", &err);
| if (err) {
| goto out;
| }
| }
Backports commit 5cdc8831a795fb8452d7e34f644202fd724e122a from qemu
The QMP input visitor allows integral values to be assigned by
promotion to a QTYPE_QFLOAT. However, when parsing an alternate,
we did not take this into account, such that an alternate that
accepts 'number' and some other type, but not 'int', would reject
integral values.
With this patch, we now have the following desirable table:
alternate has case selected for
'int' 'number' QTYPE_QINT QTYPE_QFLOAT
no no error error
no yes 'number' 'number'
yes no 'int' error
yes yes 'int' 'number'
While it is unlikely that we will ever use 'number' in an
alternate other than in the testsuite, it never hurts to be
more precise in what we allow.
Backports commit d00341af384665d259af475b14c96bb8414df415 from qemu
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).
Backports commit 0426d53c6530606bf7641b83f2b755fe61c280ee from qemu
Commit cbc95538 removed unused start_handle() and end_handle(),
but forgot to remove their declarations.
Backports commit 7549457200ec3871ee827765f4d3bbc8d903b2ec from qemu
It's first class, because unlike '**', it actually works, i.e. doesn't
require 'gen': false.
'**' will go away next.
Backports commit 28770e057f265a4e70bcbdfc2447cce7b5f2dc19 from qemu
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.
Backports commit 2e4450ff432daef524cb3557fca68a3b7b5c7823 from qemu
No backend was setting an error when ending the visit of a list or
implicit struct, or when moving to the next list node. Make the
callers a bit easier to follow by making this a part of the contract,
and removing the errp argument - callers can then unconditionally end
an object as part of cleanup without having to think about whether a
second error is dominated by a first, because there is no second
error.
A later patch will then tackle the larger task of splitting
visit_end_struct(), which can indeed set an error.
Backports commit 08f9541dec51700abef0c37994213164ca4e4fc9 from qemu
