[PATCH v2 06/21] qapi/parser: enforce all top-level expressions must be dict in _parse()

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

Instead of using get_expr nested=False, allow get_expr to always return
any expression. In exchange, add a new error message to the top-level
parser that explains the semantic error: Top-level expressions must
always be JSON objects.

This helps mypy understand the rest of this function which assumes that
get_expr did indeed return a dict.

The exception type changes from QAPIParseError to QAPISemError as a
result, and the error message in two tests now changes.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

---

Thanks Markus, I like this quite a bit better. I think I swung the
pendulum back too far away from "try not to change anything". This is
cleaner.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/qapi/parser.py                        | 14 ++++++++------
 tests/qapi-schema/non-objects.err             |  2 +-
 tests/qapi-schema/quoted-structural-chars.err |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/parser.py b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
index ba17f1357ad..d554b5485a6 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/parser.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
@@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ def _parse(self):
                     self.docs.append(cur_doc)
                 continue
 
-            expr = self.get_expr(False)
+            expr = self.get_expr()
+            if not isinstance(expr, dict):
+                raise QAPISemError(
+                    info, "top-level expression must be an object")
+
             if 'include' in expr:
                 self.reject_expr_doc(cur_doc)
                 if len(expr) != 1:
@@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ def get_members(self):
             self.accept()
             if key in expr:
                 raise QAPIParseError(self, "duplicate key '%s'" % key)
-            expr[key] = self.get_expr(True)
+            expr[key] = self.get_expr()
             if self.tok == '}':
                 self.accept()
                 return expr
@@ -270,7 +274,7 @@ def get_values(self):
             raise QAPIParseError(
                 self, "expected '{', '[', ']', string, or boolean")
         while True:
-            expr.append(self.get_expr(True))
+            expr.append(self.get_expr())
             if self.tok == ']':
                 self.accept()
                 return expr
@@ -278,9 +282,7 @@ def get_values(self):
                 raise QAPIParseError(self, "expected ',' or ']'")
             self.accept()
 
-    def get_expr(self, nested):
-        if self.tok != '{' and not nested:
-            raise QAPIParseError(self, "expected '{'")
+    def get_expr(self):
         if self.tok == '{':
             self.accept()
             expr = self.get_members()
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/non-objects.err b/tests/qapi-schema/non-objects.err
index 3a4ea36966e..23bdb69c711 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/non-objects.err
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/non-objects.err
@@ -1 +1 @@
-non-objects.json:1:1: expected '{'
+non-objects.json:1: top-level expression must be an object
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/quoted-structural-chars.err b/tests/qapi-schema/quoted-structural-chars.err
index 07d1561d1f7..af6c1e173db 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/quoted-structural-chars.err
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/quoted-structural-chars.err
@@ -1 +1 @@
-quoted-structural-chars.json:1:1: expected '{'
+quoted-structural-chars.json:1: top-level expression must be an object
-- 
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