qapi: Improve error message for unexpected array types

We reject array types in certain places with "cannot be an array".
Deleting this check improves the error message to "should be a type
name" or "should be an object or type name", depending on context, so
do that.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230316071325.492471-6-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/expr.py b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
index bc04bf34c2..5abeaa19dd 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/expr.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
@@ -341,9 +341,6 @@ def check_type_name(value: Optional[object],
     if isinstance(value, str):
         return
 
-    if isinstance(value, list):
-        raise QAPISemError(info, "%s cannot be an array" % source)
-
     raise QAPISemError(info, "%s should be a type name" % source)
 
 
@@ -392,9 +389,6 @@ def check_type_name_or_implicit(value: Optional[object],
     if isinstance(value, str):
         return
 
-    if isinstance(value, list):
-        raise QAPISemError(info, "%s cannot be an array" % source)
-
     if not isinstance(value, dict):
         raise QAPISemError(info,
                            "%s should be an object or type name" % source)