qjson: Have qobject_from_json() & friends reject empty and blank

The last case where qobject_from_json() & friends return null without
setting an error is empty or blank input.  Callers:

* block.c's parse_json_protocol() reports "Could not parse the JSON
  options".  It's marked as a work-around, because it also covered
  actual bugs, but they got fixed in the previous few commits.

* qobject_input_visitor_new_str() reports "JSON parse error".  Also
  marked as work-around.  The recent fixes have made this unreachable,
  because it currently gets called only for input starting with '{'.

* check-qjson.c's empty_input() and blank_input() demonstrate the
  behavior.

* The other callers are not affected since they only pass input with
  exactly one JSON value or, in the case of negative tests, one error.

Fail with "Expecting a JSON value" instead of returning null, and
simplify callers.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180823164025.12553-48-armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 6161dbe3eb..0dbb1fcc7b 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1478,11 +1478,6 @@ static QDict *parse_json_filename(const char *filename, Error **errp)
 
     options_obj = qobject_from_json(filename, errp);
     if (!options_obj) {
-        /* Work around qobject_from_json() lossage TODO fix that */
-        if (errp && !*errp) {
-            error_setg(errp, "Could not parse the JSON options");
-            return NULL;
-        }
         error_prepend(errp, "Could not parse the JSON options: ");
         return NULL;
     }