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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2015-05-04 09:05:30 -0600
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2015-05-05 18:39:02 +0200
commit6446a592760155bb3e2e248d56bab97a34af0336 (patch)
tree1568de0627bcae52303f130aa6b44a4de93e5d90 /linux-user/mips64
parentb6fcf32d9b851a83dedcb609091236b97cc4a985 (diff)
qapi: Drop tests for inline nested structs
A future patch will be using a 'name':{dictionary} entry in the QAPI schema to specify a default value for an optional argument; but existing use of inline nested structs conflicts with that goal. More precisely, a definition in the QAPI schema associates a name with a set of properties: Example 1: { 'struct': 'Foo', 'data': { MEMBERS... } } associates the global name 'Foo' with properties (meta-type struct) and MEMBERS... Example 2: 'mumble': TYPE within MEMBERS... above associates 'mumble' with properties (type TYPE) and (optional false) within type Foo The syntax of example 1 is extensible; if we need another property, we add another name/value pair to the dictionary (such as 'base':TYPE). The syntax of example 2 is not extensible, because the right hand side can only be a type. We have used name encoding to add a property: "'*mumble': 'int'" associates 'mumble' with (type int) and (optional true). Nice, but doesn't scale. So the solution is to change our existing uses to be syntactic sugar to an extensible form: NAME: TYPE --> NAME: { 'type': TYPE, 'optional': false } *ONAME: TYPE --> ONAME: { 'type': TYPE, 'optional': true } This patch fixes the testsuite to avoid inline nested types, by breaking the nesting into explicit types; it means that the type is now boxed instead of unboxed in C code, but makes no difference on the wire (and if desired, a later patch could change the generator to not do so much boxing in C). When touching code to add new allocations, also convert existing allocations to consistently prefer typesafe g_new0 over g_malloc0 when a type name is involved. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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