Re: [Qemu-devel] Enum String Generator

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 02/14/2015 09:37 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Fri, 02/13 19:33, John Snow wrote:
>> Just a stupid question: We don't have a macro facility in the current
>> codebase that generates both an enum and string table / lookup function
>> simultaneously, do we?
>>
>> Some things really do just wind up looking grossly inelegant in C, and this
>> is one of them.
>>
>
> There is in QAPI:
>
> fam@fam-t430:~/build/last$ grep -A 4 NewImageMode_lookup qapi-types.c
> const char *NewImageMode_lookup[] = {
>      "existing",
>      "absolute-paths",
>      NULL,
> };
>
> fam@fam-t430:~/build/last$ grep -C 10 -e NEW_IMAGE qapi-types.h
> ...
>
> extern const char *NewImageMode_lookup[];
> typedef enum NewImageMode
> {
>      NEW_IMAGE_MODE_EXISTING = 0,
>      NEW_IMAGE_MODE_ABSOLUTE_PATHS = 1,
>      NEW_IMAGE_MODE_MAX = 2,
> } NewImageMode;
>
> ...
>
> Is that what you want?
>
> Fam
>

More or less; though I wasn't intending on working in QAPI (I'm inside 
of qtest at the moment) and I assume people wouldn't appreciate the QAPI 
clutter with qtest junk.

Was just trying to figure out the best way to add a bunch of tables to 
allow some test permutations -- without it being grossly redundant.

the GLib test framework doesn't seem to allow for a test matrix / 
permutations particularly well. I see cases of some 2D iterations in 
existing qtests, but nobody appears to have implemented some 3D+ options 
structure for iterating through combinations.