qapi: Require member documentation (with loophole)

The QAPI generator forces you to document your stuff.  Except for
command arguments, event data, and members of enum and object types:
these the generator silently "documents" as "Not documented".

We can't require proper documentation there without first fixing all
the offenders.  We've always had too many offenders to pull that off.
Right now, we have more than 500.  Worse, we seem to fix old ones no
faster than we add new ones: in the past year, we fixed 22 ones, but
added 26 new ones.

To help arrest the backsliding, make missing documentation an error
unless the command, type, or event is in listed in new pragma
documentation-exceptions.

List all the current offenders: 117 commands and types in qapi/, and 9
in qga/.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/parser.py b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
index 48cd55a38c..88221b3c64 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/parser.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ class QAPISchemaParser:
             pragma.command_name_exceptions = check_list_str(name, value)
         elif name == 'command-returns-exceptions':
             pragma.command_returns_exceptions = check_list_str(name, value)
+        elif name == 'documentation-exceptions':
+            pragma.documentation_exceptions = check_list_str(name, value)
         elif name == 'member-name-exceptions':
             pragma.member_name_exceptions = check_list_str(name, value)
         else:
@@ -739,7 +741,10 @@ class QAPIDoc:
 
     def connect_member(self, member: 'QAPISchemaMember') -> None:
         if member.name not in self.args:
-            # Undocumented TODO outlaw
+            if self.symbol not in member.info.pragma.documentation_exceptions:
+                raise QAPISemError(member.info,
+                                   "%s '%s' lacks documentation"
+                                   % (member.role, member.name))
             self.args[member.name] = QAPIDoc.ArgSection(self._parser,
                                                         member.name)
         self.args[member.name].connect(member)
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/source.py b/scripts/qapi/source.py
index 04193cc964..7b379fdc92 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/source.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/source.py
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ class QAPISchemaPragma:
         self.command_name_exceptions: List[str] = []
         # Commands allowed to return a non-dictionary
         self.command_returns_exceptions: List[str] = []
+        # Types, commands, and events with undocumented members
+        self.documentation_exceptions: List[str] = []
         # Types whose member names may violate case conventions
         self.member_name_exceptions: List[str] = []