qapi: Introduce a first class 'any' type

It's first class, because unlike '**', it actually works, i.e. doesn't
require 'gen': false.

'**' will go away next.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

4 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c b/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
index d7f92c5d68..737deab9e5 100644
--- a/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/qapi-dealloc-visitor.c
@@ -151,6 +151,14 @@ static void qapi_dealloc_type_number(Visitor *v, double *obj, const char *name,
 {
 }
 
+static void qapi_dealloc_type_anything(Visitor *v, QObject **obj,
+                                       const char *name, Error **errp)
+{
+    if (obj) {
+        qobject_decref(*obj);
+    }
+}
+
 static void qapi_dealloc_type_size(Visitor *v, uint64_t *obj, const char *name,
                                    Error **errp)
 {
@@ -216,6 +224,7 @@ QapiDeallocVisitor *qapi_dealloc_visitor_new(void)
     v->visitor.type_bool = qapi_dealloc_type_bool;
     v->visitor.type_str = qapi_dealloc_type_str;
     v->visitor.type_number = qapi_dealloc_type_number;
+    v->visitor.type_any = qapi_dealloc_type_anything;
     v->visitor.type_size = qapi_dealloc_type_size;
     v->visitor.start_union = qapi_dealloc_start_union;
 
diff --git a/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c b/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
index 5a7c900504..59ed5067fa 100644
--- a/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
+++ b/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
@@ -260,6 +260,12 @@ void visit_type_number(Visitor *v, double *obj, const char *name, Error **errp)
     v->type_number(v, obj, name, errp);
 }
 
+void visit_type_any(Visitor *v, QObject **obj, const char *name,
+                    Error **errp)
+{
+    v->type_any(v, obj, name, errp);
+}
+
 void output_type_enum(Visitor *v, int *obj, const char * const strings[],
                       const char *kind, const char *name,
                       Error **errp)
diff --git a/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c b/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c
index e97b8a4282..5dd9ed5ce5 100644
--- a/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c
@@ -286,6 +286,16 @@ static void qmp_input_type_number(Visitor *v, double *obj, const char *name,
     }
 }
 
+static void qmp_input_type_any(Visitor *v, QObject **obj, const char *name,
+                               Error **errp)
+{
+    QmpInputVisitor *qiv = to_qiv(v);
+    QObject *qobj = qmp_input_get_object(qiv, name, true);
+
+    qobject_incref(qobj);
+    *obj = qobj;
+}
+
 static void qmp_input_optional(Visitor *v, bool *present, const char *name,
                                Error **errp)
 {
@@ -329,6 +339,7 @@ QmpInputVisitor *qmp_input_visitor_new(QObject *obj)
     v->visitor.type_bool = qmp_input_type_bool;
     v->visitor.type_str = qmp_input_type_str;
     v->visitor.type_number = qmp_input_type_number;
+    v->visitor.type_any = qmp_input_type_any;
     v->visitor.optional = qmp_input_optional;
     v->visitor.get_next_type = qmp_input_get_next_type;
 
diff --git a/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c b/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
index 8dce08749d..29899acd46 100644
--- a/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/qmp-output-visitor.c
@@ -190,6 +190,14 @@ static void qmp_output_type_number(Visitor *v, double *obj, const char *name,
     qmp_output_add(qov, name, qfloat_from_double(*obj));
 }
 
+static void qmp_output_type_any(Visitor *v, QObject **obj, const char *name,
+                                Error **errp)
+{
+    QmpOutputVisitor *qov = to_qov(v);
+    qobject_incref(*obj);
+    qmp_output_add_obj(qov, name, *obj);
+}
+
 QObject *qmp_output_get_qobject(QmpOutputVisitor *qov)
 {
     QObject *obj = qmp_output_first(qov);
@@ -237,6 +245,7 @@ QmpOutputVisitor *qmp_output_visitor_new(void)
     v->visitor.type_bool = qmp_output_type_bool;
     v->visitor.type_str = qmp_output_type_str;
     v->visitor.type_number = qmp_output_type_number;
+    v->visitor.type_any = qmp_output_type_any;
 
     QTAILQ_INIT(&v->stack);