Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 05/11/13 00:45, Michael Roth wrote:
> These patches apply on top of qemu.git master, and can also be obtained from:
> git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qapi-native-lists
> 
> Sending this now since a number of series have popped up in the past that
> wanted this, and Amos has some pending patches (query-mac-tables) that rely
> on this as well.
> 
> These patches add support for specifying lists of native qapi types
> (int/bool/str/number/int8/uint8/etc) like so:
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo',
>     'data': { 'bar': ['int'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar' field that is a list of type 'int',
> 
>   { 'type': 'foo2',
>     'data': { 'bar2': ['str'] }}
> 
> for a 'bar2' field that is a list of type 'str', and so on.
> 
> This uses linked list types for the native C representations, just as we do
> for complex schema-defined types. In the future we may add schema annotations
> of some sort to specify a more natural/efficient array type for the C
> representations, but this should serve the majority of uses-cases for now.
> 
> v2->v3:
>  * added native list support for fixed-width integer types (Amos)
>  * added fixed-width integer list coverage to serialization,
>    QMPOutputVisitor, and QmpInputVisitor unit tests
>  * added unit test to QmpInputVisitor to test new overflow handling when
>    integers types are expected (Eric)
>  * clarified terminology/documentation in json parser fix (Laszlo)
>  * fixed whitespace/newlines in code generator output (Luiz)
> 
> v1->v2:
>  * fixed do-nothing float tests in pre-existing code and updated new
>    unit tests accordingly (Laszlo)
>  * added a fix for a bug in json parser that was exposed by above change
>  * fixed misuse of string format parameters for float testing (Laszlo)
>  * fixed extra characters in comment (Laszlo)
>  * removed unused variant from UserDefNativeListUnion QAPI type
> 
>  Makefile                           |    6 +-
>  qapi-schema-test.json              |   15 ++
>  qobject/json-parser.c              |   26 +-
>  scripts/qapi-types.py              |   45 +++-
>  scripts/qapi-visit.py              |   36 ++-
>  scripts/qapi.py                    |   23 ++
>  tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c     |  358 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-qmp-output-visitor.c    |  332 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-visitor-serialization.c |  485 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  9 files changed, 1274 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 

I compared the patches with their v2 counterparts, and read the new patch.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>