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

[Eric Blake]

On 03/26/2015 11:38 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, more evidence that I waffled about per-commit doc fixes, vs.
lumping it all in patch 1, and I obviously failed to scrub the commit
messages after changing my mind.

> 
> 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.

Also, even though the code accepts 'gen':false, it rejects 'gen':true
('gen' is only a one-way switch away from the default).  Also something
I didn't think worth worrying about.

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

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