[Qemu-devel] [PULL 06/20] event_match: always match on None value

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

Before, event_match didn't always recurse if the event value was not a
dictionary, and would instead check for equality immediately.

By delaying equality checking to post-recursion, we can allow leaf
values like "5" to match "None" and take advantage of the generic
None-returns-True clause.

This makes the matching a little more obviously consistent at the
expense of being able to check for explicit None values, which is
probably not that important given what this function is used for.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190528183857.26167-1-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 python/qemu/__init__.py | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/qemu/__init__.py b/python/qemu/__init__.py
index 98ed8a2e28..dbaf8a5311 100644
--- a/python/qemu/__init__.py
+++ b/python/qemu/__init__.py
@@ -409,27 +409,31 @@ class QEMUMachine(object):
 
         The match criteria takes the form of a matching subdict. The event is
         checked to be a superset of the subdict, recursively, with matching
-        values whenever those values are not None.
+        values whenever the subdict values are not None.
+
+        This has a limitation that you cannot explicitly check for None values.
 
         Examples, with the subdict queries on the left:
          - None matches any object.
          - {"foo": None} matches {"foo": {"bar": 1}}
-         - {"foo": {"baz": None}} does not match {"foo": {"bar": 1}}
-         - {"foo": {"baz": 2}} matches {"foo": {"bar": 1, "baz": 2}}
+         - {"foo": None} matches {"foo": 5}
+         - {"foo": {"abc": None}} does not match {"foo": {"bar": 1}}
+         - {"foo": {"rab": 2}} matches {"foo": {"bar": 1, "rab": 2}}
         """
         if match is None:
             return True
 
-        for key in match:
-            if key in event:
-                if isinstance(event[key], dict):
+        try:
+            for key in match:
+                if key in event:
                     if not QEMUMachine.event_match(event[key], match[key]):
                         return False
-                elif event[key] != match[key]:
+                else:
                     return False
-            else:
-                return False
-        return True
+            return True
+        except TypeError:
+            # either match or event wasn't iterable (not a dict)
+            return match == event
 
     def event_wait(self, name, timeout=60.0, match=None):
         """
-- 
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