[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 15/36] qapi: Track owner of each object member

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

Future commits will migrate semantic checking away from parsing
and over to the various QAPISchema*.check() methods.  But to
report an error message about an incorrect semantic use of a
member of an object type, it helps to know which type, command,
or event owns the member.  In particular, when a member is
inherited from a base type, it is desirable to associate the
member name with the base type (and not the type calling
member.check()).

Rather than packing additional information into the seen array
passed to each member.check() (as in seen[m.name] = {'member':m,
'owner':type}), it is easier to have each member track the name
of the owner type in the first place (keeping things simpler
with the existing seen[m.name] = m).  The new member.owner field
is set via a new set_owner() method, called when registering
the members and variants arrays with an object or variant type.
Track only a name, and not the actual type object, to avoid
creating a circular python reference chain.

Note that Variants.set_owner() method does not set the owner
for the tag_member field; this field is set earlier either as
part of an object's non-variant members, or explicitly by
alternates.

The source information is intended for human consumption in
error messages, and a new describe() method is added to access
the resulting information.  For example, given the qapi:
  { 'command': 'foo', 'data': { 'string': 'str' } }
an implementation of visit_command() that calls
  arg_type.members[0].describe()
will see "'string' (parameter of foo)".

To make the human-readable name of implicit types work without
duplicating efforts, the describe() method has to reverse the
name of implicit types, via the helper _pretty_owner().

No change to generated code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

---
v12: no change
v11: set alternate tag_member owner during init, tweak comments,
keep events with '-args' instead of '-data', prefer '(parameter
of foo)'
v10 (now in subset C): rebase to latest, set alternate tag_member
owner from alternate
v9 (now in subset D): rebase to earlier changes, hoist 'role' to top
of class, split out _pretty_helper(), manage owner when tag_member
appears as part of local_members for unions
v8: don't munge implicit type names [except for event data], and
instead make describe() create nicer messages. Add set_owner(), and
use field 'role' instead of method _describe()
v7: total rewrite: rework implicit object names, assign owner
when initializing owner type rather than when creating member
python object
v6: rebase on new lazy array creation and simple union 'type'
motion; tweak commit message
---
 scripts/qapi.py | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
index 6fc14be..79038a8 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi.py
@@ -957,8 +957,10 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectType(QAPISchemaType):
         assert base is None or isinstance(base, str)
         for m in local_members:
             assert isinstance(m, QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember)
-        assert (variants is None or
-                isinstance(variants, QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants))
+            m.set_owner(name)
+        if variants is not None:
+            assert isinstance(variants, QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants)
+            variants.set_owner(name)
         self._base_name = base
         self.base = None
         self.local_members = local_members
@@ -1013,6 +1015,8 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectType(QAPISchemaType):


 class QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember(object):
+    role = 'member'
+
     def __init__(self, name, typ, optional):
         assert isinstance(name, str)
         assert isinstance(typ, str)
@@ -1021,8 +1025,14 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember(object):
         self._type_name = typ
         self.type = None
         self.optional = optional
+        self.owner = None
+
+    def set_owner(self, name):
+        assert not self.owner
+        self.owner = name

     def check(self, schema):
+        assert self.owner
         self.type = schema.lookup_type(self._type_name)
         assert self.type

@@ -1031,6 +1041,22 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember(object):
         assert self.name not in seen
         seen[self.name] = self

+    def _pretty_owner(self):
+        owner = self.owner
+        if owner.startswith(':obj-'):
+            # See QAPISchema._make_implicit_object_type() - reverse the
+            # mapping there to create a nice human-readable description
+            owner = owner[5:]
+            if owner.endswith('-arg'):
+                return '(parameter of %s)' % owner[:-4]
+            else:
+                assert owner.endswith('-wrapper')
+                return '(branch of %s)' % owner[:-8]
+        return '(%s of %s)' % (self.role, owner)
+
+    def describe(self):
+        return "'%s' %s" % (self.name, self._pretty_owner())
+

 class QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants(object):
     def __init__(self, tag_name, tag_member, variants):
@@ -1047,6 +1073,10 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants(object):
         self.tag_member = tag_member
         self.variants = variants

+    def set_owner(self, name):
+        for v in self.variants:
+            v.set_owner(name)
+
     def check(self, schema, seen):
         if not self.tag_member:    # flat union
             self.tag_member = seen[self.tag_name]
@@ -1066,6 +1096,8 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants(object):


 class QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariant(QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember):
+    role = 'branch'
+
     def __init__(self, name, typ):
         QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember.__init__(self, name, typ, False)

@@ -1085,6 +1117,8 @@ class QAPISchemaAlternateType(QAPISchemaType):
         QAPISchemaType.__init__(self, name, info)
         assert isinstance(variants, QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants)
         assert not variants.tag_name
+        variants.set_owner(name)
+        variants.tag_member.set_owner(self.name)
         self.variants = variants

     def check(self, schema):
@@ -1217,6 +1251,7 @@ class QAPISchema(object):
     def _make_implicit_object_type(self, name, info, role, members):
         if not members:
             return None
+        # See also QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember._pretty_owner()
         name = ':obj-%s-%s' % (name, role)
         if not self.lookup_entity(name, QAPISchemaObjectType):
             self._def_entity(QAPISchemaObjectType(name, info, None,
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