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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminat
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Wenchao Xia |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminator and better enum name |
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Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:19:48 +0800 |
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δΊ 2013/11/26 0:47, Luiz Capitulino ει:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:25:00 +0800
Wenchao Xia <address@hidden> wrote:
This series is respined from RFC series at:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-11/msg00363.html
Patch 1-6 add support for enum as discriminator.
Patch 7 improve enum name generation, now AIOContext->AIO_CONTEXT, X86CPU->
X86_CPU.
Patch 8 are the test cases.
Can you please clarify what is the problem this series is trying to
solve, how it does it and provide before/after type of examples?
That's what I'd expect from an intro email, but this one has only a
reference to an RFC series that has no better info, and some crypt
changelog with magic numbers :(
Besides, this doesn't apply anymore...
Let me have an introduction:
1. support using enum as discriminator in union.
For example, if we have following define in qapi schema:
{ 'enum': 'EnumOne',
'data': [ 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' ] }
{ 'type': 'UserDefBase0',
'data': { 'base-string0': 'str', 'base-enum0': 'EnumOne' } }
Before this series, discriminator in union must be a string, and a
hidden enum type as discriminator is generated. After this series,
qapi schema can directly use predefined enum type:
{ 'union': 'UserDefEnumDiscriminatorUnion',
'base': 'UserDefBase0',
'discriminator' : 'base-enum0',
'data': { 'value1' : 'UserDefA',
'value2' : 'UserDefInherit',
'value3' : 'UserDefB' } }
The implement is done by:
1.1 remember the enum defines by qapi scripts.(patch 1)
1.2 use the remembered enum define to check correctness at compile
time.(patch 3)
1.3 use the same enum name generation rule to avoid C code mismatch,
esp for "case [ENUM_VALUE]" in qapi-visit.c.(patch 4,5)
1.4 when pre-defined enum type is used as discriminator, don't generate
a hidden enum type, switch the code path to support enum as
discriminator.
1.5 test case shows how it looks like.(Patch 8)
2. Better enum name generation
Before this patch, AIOContext->A_I_O_Context, after this patch,
AIOContet->AIO_Context. Since previous patch has foldered enum
name generation codes into one function, it is done easily by modifying
it.(Patch 7)
Changes from RFC:
Mainly address Eric's comments: fix typo, add patch 2 to allow partly mapping
enum value in union, add related test case, remove direct inherit support
"_base"
and related test case.
v2:
General:
3: use Raise exception instead of sys.error.write in qapi.py.
Address Eric's comments:
2,3: more check for enum value at compile time.
8: correspond test case change.
Wenchao Xia (8):
1 qapi script: remember enum values
2 qapi script: add check for duplicated key
3 qapi script: check correctness of discriminator values in union
4 qapi script: code move for generate_enum_name()
5 qapi script: use same function to generate enum string
6 qapi script: not generate hidden enum type for pre-defined enum
discriminator
7 qapi script: do not add "_" for every capitalized char in enum
8 tests: add cases for inherited struct and union with discriminator
include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h | 2 +-
scripts/qapi-types.py | 34 ++++----
scripts/qapi-visit.py | 55 +++++++++--
scripts/qapi.py | 84 ++++++++++++++++-
target-i386/cpu.c | 2 +-
tests/qapi-schema/comments.out | 2 +-
tests/qapi-schema/qapi-schema-test.json | 27 ++++++
tests/qapi-schema/qapi-schema-test.out | 15 +++-
tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
tests/test-qmp-output-visitor.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
10 files changed, 454 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 2/8] qapi script: add check for duplicated key, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 2/8] qapi script: add check for duplicated key, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 5/8] qapi script: use same function to generate enum string, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 1/8] qapi script: remember enum values, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 3/8] qapi script: check correctness of discriminator values in union, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 7/8] qapi script: do not add "_" for every capitalized char in enum, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 4/8] qapi script: code move for generate_enum_name(), Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 6/8] qapi script: not generate hidden enum type for pre-defined enum discriminator, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 8/8] tests: add cases for inherited struct and union with discriminator, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminator and better enum name, Wenchao Xia, 2013/11/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminator and better enum name, Luiz Capitulino, 2013/11/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminator and better enum name,
Wenchao Xia <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/8] qapi script: support enum as discriminator and better enum name, Kevin Wolf, 2013/11/28