Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] qapi: allow sharing enum implementation across visitors

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 09.02.2012 15:31, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Most visitors will use the same code for enum parsing.  Move it to
> the core.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

However...

> diff --git a/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c b/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
> index ddef3ed..a4e088c 100644
> --- a/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
> +++ b/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c

> @@ -116,3 +117,53 @@ void visit_type_number(Visitor *v, double *obj, const char *name, Error **errp)
>          v->type_number(v, obj, name, errp);
>      }
>  }
> +
> +void output_type_enum(Visitor *v, int *obj, const char *strings[],
> +                      const char *kind, const char *name,
> +                      Error **errp)
> +{
> +    int i = 0;
> +    int value = *obj;
> +    char *enum_str;
> +
> +    assert(strings);
> +    while (strings[i++] != NULL);
> +    if (value < 0 || value >= i - 1) {
> +        error_set(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER, name ? name : "null");
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    enum_str = (char *)strings[value];

This does not take into account non-linear enum values.

Maybe name it output_type_linear_enum to allow for alternative enum
lookup implementations? (e.g., hashtable or list of name,value tuples)

Andreas

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