Turn on the ability to pass command and event arguments in
a single boxed parameter, which must name a non-empty type
(although the type can be a struct with all optional members).
For structs, it makes it possible to pass a single qapi type
instead of a breakout of all struct members (useful if the
arguments are already in a struct or if the number of members
is large); for other complex types, it is now possible to use
a union or alternate as the data for a command or event.
The empty type may be technically feasible if needed down the
road, but it's easier to forbid it now and relax things to allow
it later, than it is to allow it now and have to special case
how the generated 'q_empty' type is handled (see commit 7ce106a9
for reasons why nothing is generated for the empty type). An
alternate type is never considered empty, but now that a boxed
type can be either an object or an alternate, we have to provide
a trivial QAPISchemaAlternateType.is_empty(). The new call to
arg_type.is_empty() during QAPISchemaCommand.check() requires
that we first check the type in question; but there is no chance
of introducing a cycle since objects do not refer back to commands.
We still have a split in syntax checking between ad-hoc parsing
up front (merely validates that 'boxed' has a sane value) and
during .check() methods (if 'boxed' is set, then 'data' must name
a non-empty user-defined type).
Generated code is unchanged, as long as no client uses the
new feature.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1468468228-27827-10-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Test files renamed to *-boxed-*]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
A command's or event's 'data' must be a struct type, given either as a
dictionary, or as struct type name.
Commit dd883c6 tightened the checking there, but not enough: we still
accept 'union'. Fix to reject it.
We may want to support union types there, but we'll have to extend
qapi-commands.py and qapi-events.py for it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
A command's 'data' must be a struct type, given either as a
dictionary, or as struct type name.
Existing test case data-int.json covers simple type 'int'. Add test
cases for type names referring to union and alternate types.
The latter is caught (good), but the former is not (bug).
Events have the same problem, but since they get checked by the same
code, we don't bother to duplicate the tests.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
