Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 18/28] qapi: Unify type bypass and add tests

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> For a few QMP commands, we are forced to pass an arbitrary type
> without tracking it properly in QAPI.  Among the existing clients,
> this unnamed type was spelled 'dict', 'visitor', and '**'; this
> patch standardizes on '**'.
>
> Meanwhile, for both 'gen' and 'success-response' keys, we have been
> ignoring the value, although the schema consistently used "'no'".
> But now that we can support a literal "false" in the schema, we
> might as well use that rather than ignoring the value or
> special-casing a random string.
>
> There is no difference to the generated code.  As these features
> were previously undocumented before this series, add some tests
> and documentation on what we'd like to guarantee, although it will
> take later patches to clean up test results and actually enforce
> the use of a bool parameter.

You don't actually add documentation in this patch.

Aside: 'gen': false is required when '**' is used anywhere in the
command.  If it was permitted only then, it would be redundant.  I think
we happily accept 'gen': false without '**' so far, although we don't
use it.  That's okay.

> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>