qom: introduce object_property_help()

Let's factor out the code to format a help string for a property. We
are going to reuse it in qdev next, which will bring some consistency.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200110153039.1379601-25-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
[Adjust for removal of object_property_get_default, move default
 after description. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Marc-André Lureau 2020-01-10 19:30:37 +04:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent c1f472ea65
commit 4df8161673
2 changed files with 41 additions and 17 deletions

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@ -1837,6 +1837,19 @@ Object *container_get(Object *root, const char *path);
*/
size_t object_type_get_instance_size(const char *typename);
/**
* object_property_help:
* @name: the name of the property
* @type: the type of the property
* @defval: the default value
* @description: description of the property
*
* Returns: a user-friendly formatted string describing the property
* for help purposes.
*/
char *object_property_help(const char *name, const char *type,
QObject *defval, const char *description);
G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC(Object, object_unref)
#endif

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@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
#include "qapi/error.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
#include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
#include "qemu/help_option.h"
#include "qemu/module.h"
@ -158,6 +160,29 @@ int user_creatable_add_opts_foreach(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
return 0;
}
char *object_property_help(const char *name, const char *type,
QObject *defval, const char *description)
{
GString *str = g_string_new(NULL);
g_string_append_printf(str, " %s=<%s>", name, type);
if (description || defval) {
if (str->len < 24) {
g_string_append_printf(str, "%*s", 24 - (int)str->len, "");
}
g_string_append(str, " - ");
}
if (description) {
g_string_append(str, description);
}
if (defval) {
g_autofree char *def_json = qstring_free(qobject_to_json(defval), TRUE);
g_string_append_printf(str, " (default: %s)", def_json);
}
return g_string_free(str, false);
}
bool user_creatable_print_help(const char *type, QemuOpts *opts)
{
ObjectClass *klass;
@ -184,27 +209,13 @@ bool user_creatable_print_help(const char *type, QemuOpts *opts)
object_class_property_iter_init(&iter, klass);
while ((prop = object_property_iter_next(&iter))) {
GString *str;
char *defval;
if (!prop->set) {
continue;
}
str = g_string_new(NULL);
g_string_append_printf(str, " %s=<%s>", prop->name, prop->type);
defval = object_property_get_default(prop);
if (defval) {
g_string_append_printf(str, " (default: %s)", defval);
g_free(defval);
}
if (prop->description) {
if (str->len < 24) {
g_string_append_printf(str, "%*s", 24 - (int)str->len, "");
}
g_string_append_printf(str, " - %s", prop->description);
}
g_ptr_array_add(array, g_string_free(str, false));
g_ptr_array_add(array,
object_property_help(prop->name, prop->type,
prop->defval, prop->description));
}
g_ptr_array_sort(array, (GCompareFunc)qemu_pstrcmp0);
if (array->len > 0) {