error: don't delay error message construction

Today, the error message is only constructed when it's used. This commit
changes that to construct the error message when the error object is
built (ie. when the error is reported).

This simplifies the Error object.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/error.c b/error.c
index 3a62592261..2ade99b080 100644
--- a/error.c
+++ b/error.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 struct Error
 {
     QDict *obj;
-    const char *fmt;
     char *msg;
 };
 
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@ void error_set(Error **errp, const char *fmt, ...)
     va_start(ap, fmt);
     err->obj = qobject_to_qdict(qobject_from_jsonv(fmt, &ap));
     va_end(ap);
-    err->fmt = fmt;
+    err->msg = qerror_format(fmt, err->obj);
 
     *errp = err;
 }
@@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ Error *error_copy(const Error *err)
 
     err_new = g_malloc0(sizeof(*err));
     err_new->msg = g_strdup(err->msg);
-    err_new->fmt = err->fmt;
     err_new->obj = err->obj;
     QINCREF(err_new->obj);
 
@@ -64,10 +62,6 @@ bool error_is_set(Error **errp)
 
 const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err)
 {
-    if (err->msg == NULL) {
-        err->msg = qerror_format(err->fmt, err->obj);
-    }
-
     return err->msg;
 }
 
diff --git a/qerror.c b/qerror.c
index a254f88531..5d3842863f 100644
--- a/qerror.c
+++ b/qerror.c
@@ -543,7 +543,6 @@ void qerror_report(const char *fmt, ...)
 struct Error
 {
     QDict *obj;
-    const char *fmt;
     char *msg;
 };
 
@@ -555,8 +554,7 @@ void qerror_report_err(Error *err)
     loc_save(&qerr->loc);
     QINCREF(err->obj);
     qerr->error = err->obj;
-
-    qerr->err_msg = qerror_format(err->fmt, qerr->error);
+    qerr->err_msg = g_strdup(err->msg);
 
     if (monitor_cur_is_qmp()) {
         monitor_set_error(cur_mon, qerr);