qapi: Add new visit_complete() function

Making each output visitor provide its own output collection
function was the only remaining reason for exposing visitor
sub-types to the rest of the code base.  Add a polymorphic
visit_complete() function which is a no-op for input visitors,
and which populates an opaque pointer for output visitors.  For
maximum type-safety, also add a parameter to the output visitor
constructors with a type-correct version of the output pointer,
and assert that the two uses match.

This approach was considered superior to either passing the
output parameter only during construction (action at a distance
during visit_free() feels awkward) or only during visit_complete()
(defeating type safety makes it easier to use incorrectly).

Most callers were function-local, and therefore a mechanical
conversion; the testsuite was a bit trickier, but the previous
cleanup patch minimized the churn here.

The visit_complete() function may be called at most once; doing
so lets us use transfer semantics rather than duplication or
ref-count semantics to get the just-built output back to the
caller, even though it means our behavior is not idempotent.

Generated code is simplified as follows for events:

|@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ void qapi_event_send_acpi_device_ost(ACP
|     QDict *qmp;
|     Error *err = NULL;
|     QMPEventFuncEmit emit;
|-    QmpOutputVisitor *qov;
|+    QObject *obj;
|     Visitor *v;
|     q_obj_ACPI_DEVICE_OST_arg param = {
|         info
|@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ void qapi_event_send_acpi_device_ost(ACP
|
|     qmp = qmp_event_build_dict("ACPI_DEVICE_OST");
|
|-    qov = qmp_output_visitor_new();
|-    v = qmp_output_get_visitor(qov);
|+    v = qmp_output_visitor_new(&obj);
|
|     visit_start_struct(v, "ACPI_DEVICE_OST", NULL, 0, &err);
|     if (err) {
|@@ -55,7 +54,8 @@ void qapi_event_send_acpi_device_ost(ACP
|         goto out;
|     }
|
|-    qdict_put_obj(qmp, "data", qmp_output_get_qobject(qov));
|+    visit_complete(v, &obj);
|+    qdict_put_obj(qmp, "data", obj);
|     emit(QAPI_EVENT_ACPI_DEVICE_OST, qmp, &err);

and for commands:

| {
|     Error *err = NULL;
|-    QmpOutputVisitor *qov = qmp_output_visitor_new();
|     Visitor *v;
|
|-    v = qmp_output_get_visitor(qov);
|+    v = qmp_output_visitor_new(ret_out);
|     visit_type_AddfdInfo(v, "unused", &ret_in, &err);
|-    if (err) {
|-        goto out;
|+    if (!err) {
|+        visit_complete(v, ret_out);
|     }
|-    *ret_out = qmp_output_get_qobject(qov);
|-
|-out:
|     error_propagate(errp, err);

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1465490926-28625-13-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tests/check-qnull.c b/tests/check-qnull.c
index 6310bf7d41..dc906b116e 100644
--- a/tests/check-qnull.c
+++ b/tests/check-qnull.c
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ static void qnull_ref_test(void)
 static void qnull_visit_test(void)
 {
     QObject *obj;
-    QmpOutputVisitor *qov;
     Visitor *v;
 
     /*
@@ -53,12 +52,12 @@ static void qnull_visit_test(void)
     visit_type_null(v, NULL, &error_abort);
     visit_free(v);
 
-    qov = qmp_output_visitor_new();
-    visit_type_null(qmp_output_get_visitor(qov), NULL, &error_abort);
-    obj = qmp_output_get_qobject(qov);
+    v = qmp_output_visitor_new(&obj);
+    visit_type_null(v, NULL, &error_abort);
+    visit_complete(v, &obj);
     g_assert(obj == &qnull_);
     qobject_decref(obj);
-    visit_free(qmp_output_get_visitor(qov));
+    visit_free(v);
 
     g_assert(qnull_.refcnt == 1);
 }