[PULL 7/8] qapi: remove _JSONObject

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

We can remove this alias as it only has two usages now, and no longer
pays for the confusion of "yet another type".

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230215000011.1725012-6-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/qapi/expr.py   | 13 +++----------
 scripts/qapi/parser.py |  5 ++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/expr.py b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
index b8f905543e..ca01ea6f4a 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/expr.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
@@ -47,14 +47,6 @@
 from .source import QAPISourceInfo
 
 
-# Deserialized JSON objects as returned by the parser.
-# The values of this mapping are not necessary to exhaustively type
-# here (and also not practical as long as mypy lacks recursive
-# types), because the purpose of this module is to interrogate that
-# type.
-_JSONObject = Dict[str, object]
-
-
 # See check_name_str(), below.
 valid_name = re.compile(r'(__[a-z0-9.-]+_)?'
                         r'(x-)?'
@@ -191,7 +183,7 @@ def check_defn_name_str(name: str, info: QAPISourceInfo, meta: str) -> None:
                 info, "%s name should not end in 'List'" % meta)
 
 
-def check_keys(value: _JSONObject,
+def check_keys(value: Dict[str, object],
                info: QAPISourceInfo,
                source: str,
                required: List[str],
@@ -255,7 +247,8 @@ def check_flags(expr: QAPIExpression) -> None:
             expr.info, "flags 'allow-oob' and 'coroutine' are incompatible")
 
 
-def check_if(expr: _JSONObject, info: QAPISourceInfo, source: str) -> None:
+def check_if(expr: Dict[str, object],
+             info: QAPISourceInfo, source: str) -> None:
     """
     Validate the ``if`` member of an object.
 
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/parser.py b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
index 50906e27d4..d570086e1a 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/parser.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
@@ -42,9 +42,8 @@
 _ExprValue = Union[List[object], Dict[str, object], str, bool]
 
 
-# FIXME: Consolidate and centralize definitions for _ExprValue,
-# JSONValue, and _JSONObject; currently scattered across several
-# modules.
+# FIXME: Consolidate and centralize definitions for _ExprValue and
+# JSONValue; currently scattered across several modules.
 
 
 class QAPIExpression(Dict[str, object]):
-- 
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