Starting error messages with a capital letter complicates things when
text can get interpolated both at the beginning and in the middle of
an error message. The next patch will do that. Switch to lower case
to keep it simpler.
For what it's worth, the GNU Coding Standards advise the message
"should not begin with a capital letter when it follows a program name
and/or file name, because that isn’t the beginning of a sentence. (The
sentence conceptually starts at the beginning of the line.)"
While there, avoid breaking lines containing multiple arguments in the
middle of an argument.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190927134639.4284-7-armbru@redhat.com>
We take pains to include the offending expression in error messages,
e.g.
tests/qapi-schema/alternate-any.json:2: alternate 'Alt' member 'one' cannot use type 'any'
But not always:
tests/qapi-schema/enum-if-invalid.json:2: 'if' condition must be a string or a list of strings
Instead of improving them one by one, report the offending expression
whenever it is known, like this:
tests/qapi-schema/enum-if-invalid.json: In enum 'TestIfEnum':
tests/qapi-schema/enum-if-invalid.json:2: 'if' condition must be a string or a list of strings
Error messages that mention the offending expression become a bit
redundant, e.g.
tests/qapi-schema/alternate-any.json: In alternate 'Alt':
tests/qapi-schema/alternate-any.json:2: alternate 'Alt' member 'one' cannot use type 'any'
I'll take care of that later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190927134639.4284-5-armbru@redhat.com>
check_union() checks the discriminator exists in base and makes sense.
Two error messages mention the base. These are broken for anonymous
bases, as demonstrated by tests flat-union-invalid-discriminator and
flat-union-invalid-if-discriminator.err. The third one doesn't
bother.
First broken when commit ac4338f8eb "qapi: Allow anonymous base for
flat union" (v2.6.0) neglected to adjust the "not a member of base"
error message. Commit ccadd6bcba "qapi: Add 'if' to implicit struct
members" (v4.0.0) then cloned the flawed error message.
Dumb them down not to mention the base.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190914153506.2151-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Common Python pitfall: 'assert base_members' fires on [] in addition
to None. Correct to 'assert base_members is not None'.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-10-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
The new test case shows off qapi.py choking on an empty union base.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-9-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
