Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] qapi: golang: Generate enum type

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:49:39AM +0100, Victor Toso wrote:
> This patch handles QAPI enum types and generates its equivalent in Go.
> We sort the output based on enum's type name.
> 
> Enums are being handled as strings in Golang.
> 
> 1. For each QAPI enum, we will define a string type in Go to be the
>    assigned type of this specific enum.
> 
> 2. Naming: CamelCase will be used in any identifier that we want to
>    export, which is everything.
> 
> Example:
> 
> qapi:
>   | ##
>   | # @DisplayProtocol:
>   | #
>   | # Display protocols which support changing password options.
>   | #
>   | # Since: 7.0
>   | ##
>   | { 'enum': 'DisplayProtocol',
>   |   'data': [ 'vnc', 'spice' ] }
> 
> go:
>   | // Display protocols which support changing password options.
>   | //
>   | // Since: 7.0
>   | type DisplayProtocol string
>   |
>   | const (
>   | 	DisplayProtocolVnc   DisplayProtocol = "vnc"
>   | 	DisplayProtocolSpice DisplayProtocol = "spice"
>   | )
> 
> Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
> ---
>  scripts/qapi/golang.py | 266 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  scripts/qapi/main.py   |   3 +
>  2 files changed, 269 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 scripts/qapi/golang.py
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/qapi/golang.py b/scripts/qapi/golang.py
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..1e04c99f1c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/qapi/golang.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,266 @@
> +"""
> +Golang QAPI generator
> +"""
> +
> +# Copyright (c) 2025 Red Hat Inc.
> +#
> +# Authors:
> +#  Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
> +#
> +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
> +# See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.

Did you mean to say GPL-2.0-only ? Generally we'd expect
new code to be GPL-2.0-or-later.

Also we'd now desire "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later"
for any newly added files, which reminds me to finish my patches
to checkpatch.pl to enforce SPDX usage.



With regards,
Daniel
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