Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] qapi: improve specificity of type/member descriptions

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

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 01:38:21PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > When describing member types always include the context of the
> > containing type. Although this is often redundant, in some cases
> > it will help to reduce ambiguity.
> 
> This is no longer true.  It was in v2.  Suggest:
> 
>   Error messages describe object members, enumeration values, features,
>   and variants like ROLE 'NAME', where ROLE is "member", "value",
>   "feature", or "branch", respectively.  When the member is defined in
>   another type, e.g. inherited from a base type, we add "of type
>   'TYPE'".  Example: test case struct-base-clash-deep reports a member
>   of type 'Sub' clashing with a member of its base type 'Base' as
> 
>       struct-base-clash-deep.json: In struct 'Sub':
>       struct-base-clash-deep.json:10: member 'name' collides with member 'name' of type 'Base'
> 
>   Members of implicitly defined types need special treatment.  We don't
>   want to add "of type 'TYPE'" for them, because their named are made up
>   and mean nothing to the user.  Instead, we describe members of an
>   implicitly defined base type as "base member 'NAME'", and command and
>   event parameters as "parameter 'NAME'".  Example: test case
>   union-bad-base reports member of a variant's type clashing with a
>   member of its implicitly defined base type as
> 
>       union-bad-base.json: In union 'TestUnion':
>       union-bad-base.json:8: member 'string' of type 'TestTypeA' collides with base member 'string'
> 
>   The next commit will permit unions as variant types.  "base member
>   'NAME' would then be ambigious: is it the union's base, or is it the
>   union's variant's base?  One of its test cases would report a clash
>   between two such bases as "base member 'type' collides with base
>   member 'type'".  Confusing.
> 
>   Refine the special treatment: add "of TYPE" even for implicitly
>   defined types, but massage TYPE and ROLE so they make sense for the
>   user.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/qapi/schema.py | 9 +++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
> > index 207e4d71f3..da04b97ded 100644
> > --- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py
> > +++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
> > @@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ def connect_doc(self, doc):
> >  
> >      def describe(self, info):
> >          role = self.role
> > +        meta = 'type'
> >          defined_in = self.defined_in
> >          assert defined_in
> >  
> > @@ -708,13 +709,17 @@ def describe(self, info):
> >                  # Implicit type created for a command's dict 'data'
> >                  assert role == 'member'
> >                  role = 'parameter'
> > +                meta = 'command'
> > +                defined_in = defined_in[:-4]
> >              elif defined_in.endswith('-base'):
> >                  # Implicit type created for a union's dict 'base'
> >                  role = 'base ' + role
> > +                defined_in = defined_in[:-5]
> >              else:
> >                  assert False
> > -        elif defined_in != info.defn_name:
> > -            return "%s '%s' of type '%s'" % (role, self.name, defined_in)
> > +
> > +        if defined_in != info.defn_name:
> > +            return "%s '%s' of %s '%s'" % (role, self.name, meta, defined_in)
> >          return "%s '%s'" % (role, self.name)
> 
> Since I rewrote both the patch and the commit message, would you like me
> to take the blame and claim authorship?

Yes, I should have credited you as the author here since it was just
taking your proposed code. The suggested commit message looks fine too

With regards,
Daniel
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