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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2019-09-14 17:34:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2019-09-24 14:07:23 +0200 |
| commit | 9d55380b5aecd4ae5324e7d4ab0a7dfc510b634d (patch) | |
| tree | 7f4e84bbe481b6b933e0a193b2c6756f86a15091 /docs | |
| parent | 14c32795024c815316337b019bdf88d76b429af8 (diff) | |
qapi: Remove null from schema language
We represent the parse tree as OrderedDict. We fetch optional dict
members with .get(). So far, so good.
We represent null literals as None. .get() returns None both for
"absent" and for "present, value is the null literal". Uh-oh.
Test features-if-invalid exposes this bug: "'if': null" is
misinterpreted as absent "if".
We added null to the schema language to "allow [...] an explicit
default value" (commit e53188ada5 "qapi: Allow true, false and null in
schema json", v2.4.0). Hasn't happened; null is still unused except
as generic invalid value in tests/.
To fix, we'd have to replace .get() by something more careful, or
represent null differently. Feasible, but we got more and bigger fish
to fry right now. Remove the null literal from the schema language.
Replace null in tests by another invalid value.
Test features-if-invalid now behaves as it should.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190914153506.2151-10-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt index b12a5b4de8..64d9e4c6a9 100644 --- a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt +++ b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Differences: * Strings are restricted to printable ASCII, and escape sequences to just '\\'. -* Numbers are not supported. +* Numbers and null are not supported. A second layer of syntax defines the sequences of JSON texts that are a correctly structured QAPI schema. We provide a grammar for this @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ syntax in an EBNF-like notation: expression A separated by , * Grouping: expression ( A ) matches expression A * JSON's structural characters are terminals: { } [ ] : , -* JSON's literal names are terminals: false true null +* JSON's literal names are terminals: false true * String literals enclosed in 'single quotes' are terminal, and match this JSON string, with a leading '*' stripped off * When JSON object member's name starts with '*', the member is |