Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9 v2] qapi: add explicit null to string input and output visitors

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 10:44:02AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> writes:
> 
> > This may be used for deprecated object properties that are kept for
> > backwards compatibility.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > ---
> > v2: - input visitor to reject non-empty strings
> >
> > This is needed for David's patch to work:
> >
> > [RFCv2 10/12] pseries: Move CPU compatibility property to machine
> 
> Recommend to insert this patch less the fixup to David's patch before
> David's patch, then squash in the fixup, if it's needed.

That series of mine needs a bunch of rework for several things
including this.  It'll probably be a while before I can get back to
that, so don't hold this up on my account.

> 
> > Messag-Id: <1479248275-18889-11-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >
> > Since this v2 changes the behavior to reject non-empty null properties,
> > it is up to getset_compat_deprecated() to ignore the error. The following
> > folded into patch [RFCv2 10/12] does the trick:
> >
> > --- a/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> > +++ b/target-ppc/translate_init.c
> > @@ -8446,7 +8446,7 @@ static void getset_compat_deprecated(Object *obj, Visitor
> >      if (!qtest_enabled()) {
> >          error_report("CPU 'compat' property is deprecated and has no effect; us
> >      }
> > -    visit_type_null(v, name, errp);
> > +    visit_type_null(v, name, NULL);
> 
> Are you sure we want to ignore errors here?
> 
> >  }
> >
> >  static PropertyInfo ppc_compat_deprecated_propinfo = {
> > ---
> >  qapi/string-input-visitor.c  |   11 +++++++++++
> >  qapi/string-output-visitor.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/qapi/string-input-visitor.c b/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
> > index 8dfa5612522b..9e9d2a1d2865 100644
> > --- a/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
> > +++ b/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
> > @@ -314,6 +314,16 @@ static void parse_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
> >      *obj = val;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void parse_type_null(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    StringInputVisitor *siv = to_siv(v);
> > +
> > +    if (siv->string && siv->string[0]) {
> > +        error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
> > +                   "null");
> > +    }
> > +}
> 
> When !siv->string, the other parse_type_FOO() generally do
> 
>     error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
>                ... a description of the expected type...);
> 
> This one doesn't.  Why?
> 
> Should the conditional be !siv->string || siv->string[0]?
> 
> > +
> >  static void parse_optional(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *present)
> >  {
> >      StringInputVisitor *siv = to_siv(v);
> > @@ -348,6 +358,7 @@ Visitor *string_input_visitor_new(const char *str)
> >      v->visitor.type_bool = parse_type_bool;
> >      v->visitor.type_str = parse_type_str;
> >      v->visitor.type_number = parse_type_number;
> > +    v->visitor.type_null = parse_type_null;
> >      v->visitor.start_list = start_list;
> >      v->visitor.next_list = next_list;
> >      v->visitor.end_list = end_list;
> > diff --git a/qapi/string-output-visitor.c b/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
> > index 94ac8211d144..5ec5352ca87c 100644
> > --- a/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
> > +++ b/qapi/string-output-visitor.c
> > @@ -266,6 +266,19 @@ static void print_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
> >      string_output_set(sov, g_strdup_printf("%f", *obj));
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void print_type_null(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    StringOutputVisitor *sov = to_sov(v);
> > +    char *out;
> > +
> > +    if (sov->human) {
> > +        out = g_strdup("<null>");
> > +    } else {
> > +        out = g_strdup("");
> > +    }
> > +    string_output_set(sov, out);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static void
> >  start_list(Visitor *v, const char *name, GenericList **list, size_t size,
> >             Error **errp)
> > @@ -351,6 +364,7 @@ Visitor *string_output_visitor_new(bool human, char **result)
> >      v->visitor.type_bool = print_type_bool;
> >      v->visitor.type_str = print_type_str;
> >      v->visitor.type_number = print_type_number;
> > +    v->visitor.type_null = print_type_null;
> >      v->visitor.start_list = start_list;
> >      v->visitor.next_list = next_list;
> >      v->visitor.end_list = end_list;
> 

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