[PATCH 2/4] docs, qapi: generate undocumented return sections

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

This patch changes the qapidoc transmogrifier to generate Return value
documentation for any command that has a return value but hasn't
explicitly documented that return value.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py | 14 ++++++++------
 scripts/qapi/parser.py | 11 +++++++++++
 scripts/qapi/schema.py |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py b/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
index 0930307bc73..aaf9921c06c 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
+++ b/docs/sphinx/qapidoc.py
@@ -255,16 +255,18 @@ def visit_feature(self, section: QAPIDoc.ArgSection) -> None:
     def visit_returns(self, section: QAPIDoc.Section) -> None:
         assert isinstance(self.entity, QAPISchemaCommand)
         rtype = self.entity.ret_type
-        # q_empty can produce None, but we won't be documenting anything
-        # without an explicit return statement in the doc block, and we
-        # should not have any such explicit statements when there is no
-        # return value.
+        # return statements will not be present (and won't be
+        # autogenerated) for any command that doesn't return
+        # *something*, so ret_type will always be defined here.
         assert rtype
 
         typ = self.format_type(rtype)
         assert typ
-        assert section.text
-        self.add_field("return", typ, section.text, section.info)
+
+        if section.text:
+            self.add_field("return", typ, section.text, section.info)
+        else:
+            self.add_lines(f":return-nodesc: {typ}", section.info)
 
     def visit_errors(self, section: QAPIDoc.Section) -> None:
         # FIXME: the formatting for errors may be inconsistent and may
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/parser.py b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
index 949d9e8bff7..8c382a049af 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/parser.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
@@ -815,6 +815,17 @@ def connect_feature(self, feature: 'QAPISchemaFeature') -> None:
                                % feature.name)
         self.features[feature.name].connect(feature)
 
+    def ensure_returns(self, info: QAPISourceInfo) -> None:
+        if not any(s.kind == QAPIDoc.Kind.RETURNS for s in self.all_sections):
+
+            # Stub "Returns" section for undocumented returns value.
+            # Insert stub after the last non-PLAIN section.
+            for sect in reversed(self.all_sections):
+                if sect.kind != QAPIDoc.Kind.PLAIN:
+                    stub = QAPIDoc.Section(info, QAPIDoc.Kind.RETURNS)
+                    idx = self.all_sections.index(sect) + 1
+                    self.all_sections.insert(idx, stub)
+
     def check_expr(self, expr: QAPIExpression) -> None:
         if 'command' in expr:
             if self.returns and 'returns' not in expr:
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
index cbe3b5aa91e..3abddea3525 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
@@ -1062,6 +1062,9 @@ def connect_doc(self, doc: Optional[QAPIDoc] = None) -> None:
             if self.arg_type and self.arg_type.is_implicit():
                 self.arg_type.connect_doc(doc)
 
+            if self.ret_type and self.info:
+                doc.ensure_returns(self.info)
+
     def visit(self, visitor: QAPISchemaVisitor) -> None:
         super().visit(visitor)
         visitor.visit_command(
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