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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2017-03-15 13:56:51 +0100
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2017-03-16 07:13:01 +0100
commitbc52d03ff589a033843b4603cfdfd1518867c626 (patch)
tree8196974ce1a4777947853ad331a97e5834bb19fc /docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
parente04dea88727c2ac97091333ac8be6af5952634a7 (diff)
qapi: Make doc comments optional where we don't need them
Since we added the documentation generator in commit 3313b61, doc comments are mandatory. That's a very good idea for a schema that needs to be documented, but has proven to be annoying for testing. Make doc comments optional again, but add a new directive { 'pragma': { 'doc-required': true } } to let a QAPI schema require them. Add test cases for the new pragma directive. While there, plug a minor hole in includ directive test coverage. Require documentation in the schemas we actually want documented: qapi-schema.json and qga/qapi-schema.json. We could probably make qapi2texi.py cope with incomplete documentation, but for now, simply make it refuse to run unless the schema has 'doc-required': true. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-3-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> [qapi-code-gen.txt wording tweaked] Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index 9514d936ad..4b64ee7364 100644
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+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -117,10 +117,13 @@ Example:
==== Expression documentation ====
-Each expression that isn't an include directive must be preceded by a
+Each expression that isn't an include directive may be preceded by a
documentation block. Such blocks are called expression documentation
blocks.
+When documentation is required (see pragma 'doc-required'), expression
+documentation blocks are mandatory.
+
The documentation block consists of a first line naming the
expression, an optional overview, a description of each argument (for
commands and events) or member (for structs, unions and alternates),
@@ -204,17 +207,17 @@ once. It is permissible for the schema to contain additional types
not used by any commands or events in the Client JSON Protocol, for
the side effect of generated C code used internally.
-There are seven top-level expressions recognized by the parser:
-'include', 'command', 'struct', 'enum', 'union', 'alternate', and
-'event'. There are several groups of types: simple types (a number of
-built-in types, such as 'int' and 'str'; as well as enumerations),
-complex types (structs and two flavors of unions), and alternate types
-(a choice between other types). The 'command' and 'event' expressions
-can refer to existing types by name, or list an anonymous type as a
-dictionary. Listing a type name inside an array refers to a
-single-dimension array of that type; multi-dimension arrays are not
-directly supported (although an array of a complex struct that
-contains an array member is possible).
+There are eight top-level expressions recognized by the parser:
+'include', 'pragma', 'command', 'struct', 'enum', 'union',
+'alternate', and 'event'. There are several groups of types: simple
+types (a number of built-in types, such as 'int' and 'str'; as well as
+enumerations), complex types (structs and two flavors of unions), and
+alternate types (a choice between other types). The 'command' and
+'event' expressions can refer to existing types by name, or list an
+anonymous type as a dictionary. Listing a type name inside an array
+refers to a single-dimension array of that type; multi-dimension
+arrays are not directly supported (although an array of a complex
+struct that contains an array member is possible).
All names must begin with a letter, and contain only ASCII letters,
digits, hyphen, and underscore. There are two exceptions: enum values
@@ -282,7 +285,7 @@ The following types are predefined, and map to C as follows:
QType QType JSON string matching enum QType values
-=== Includes ===
+=== Include directives ===
Usage: { 'include': STRING }
@@ -302,6 +305,20 @@ an outer file. The parser may be made stricter in the future to
prevent incomplete include files.
+=== Pragma directives ===
+
+Usage: { 'pragma': DICT }
+
+The pragma directive lets you control optional generator behavior.
+The dictionary's entries are pragma names and values.
+
+Pragma's scope is currently the complete schema. Setting the same
+pragma to different values in parts of the schema doesn't work.
+
+Pragma 'doc-required' takes a boolean value. If true, documentation
+is required. Default is false.
+
+
=== Struct types ===
Usage: { 'struct': STRING, 'data': DICT, '*base': STRUCT-NAME }