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2024-07-17qapi: remove "Example" doc sectionJohn Snow
Fully eliminate the "Example" sections in QAPI doc blocks now that they have all been converted to arbitrary rST syntax using the ".. qmp-example::" directive. Update tests to match. Migrating to the new syntax --------------------------- The old "Example:" or "Examples:" section syntax is now caught as an error, but "Example::" is stil permitted as explicit rST syntax for an un-lexed, generic preformatted text block. ('Example' is not special in this case, any sentence that ends with "::" will start an indented code block in rST.) Arbitrary rST for Examples is now possible, but it's strongly recommended that documentation authors use the ".. qmp-example::" directive for consistent visual formatting in rendered HTML docs. The ":title:" directive option may be used to add extra information into the title bar for the example. The ":annotated:" option can be used to write arbitrary rST instead, with nested "::" blocks applying QMP formatting where desired. Other choices available are ".. code-block:: QMP" which will not create an "Example:" box, or the short-form "::" code-block syntax which will not apply QMP highlighting when used outside of the qmp-example directive. Why? ---- This patch has several benefits: 1. Example sections can now be written more arbitrarily, mixing explanatory paragraphs and code blocks however desired. 2. Example sections can now use fully arbitrary rST. 3. All code blocks are now lexed and validated as QMP; increasing usability of the docs and ensuring validity of example snippets. (To some extent - This patch only gaurantees it lexes correctly, not that it's valid under the JSON or QMP grammars. It will catch most small mistakes, however.) 4. Each qmp-example can be titled or annotated independently without bypassing the QMP lexer/validator. (i.e. code blocks are now for *code* only, so we don't have to sacrifice exposition for having lexically valid examples.) NOTE: As with the "Notes" conversion (d461c279737), this patch (and the three preceding) may change the rendering order for Examples in the current generator. The forthcoming qapidoc rewrite will fix this by always generating documentation in source order. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240717021312.606116-10-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2024-07-06qapi/parser: don't parse rST markup as section headersJohn Snow
The double-colon synax is rST formatting that precedes a literal code block. We do not want to capture these as QAPI-specific sections. Coerce blocks that start with e.g. "Example::" to be parsed as untagged paragraphs instead of special tagged sections. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-14-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> [Indentation tweaked for consistency] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2024-07-06qapi: convert "Note" sections to plain rSTJohn Snow
We do not need a dedicated section for notes. By eliminating a specially parsed section, these notes can be treated as normal rST paragraphs in the new QMP reference manual, and can be placed and styled much more flexibly. Convert all existing "Note" and "Notes" sections to pure rST. As part of the conversion, capitalize the first letter of each sentence and add trailing punctuation where appropriate to ensure notes look sensible and consistent in rendered HTML documentation. Markup is also re-aligned to the de-facto standard of 3 spaces for directives. Update docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst to reflect the new paradigm, and update the QAPI parser to prohibit "Note" sections while suggesting a new syntax. The exact formatting to use is a matter of taste, but a good candidate is simply: .. note:: lorem ipsum ... ... dolor sit amet ... ... consectetur adipiscing elit ... ... but there are other choices, too. The Sphinx readthedocs theme offers theming for the following forms (capitalization unimportant); all are adorned with a (!) symbol () in the title bar for rendered HTML docs. See https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/demo/demo.html#admonitions for examples of each directive/admonition in use. These are rendered in orange: .. Attention:: ... .. Caution:: ... .. WARNING:: ... These are rendered in red: .. DANGER:: ... .. Error:: ... These are rendered in green: .. Hint:: ... .. Important:: ... .. Tip:: ... These are rendered in blue: .. Note:: ... .. admonition:: custom title admonition body text This patch uses ".. note::" almost everywhere, with just two "caution" directives. Several instances of "Notes:" have been converted to merely ".. note::", or multiple ".. note::" where appropriate. ".. admonition:: notes" is used in a few places where we had an ordered list of multiple notes that would not make sense as standalone/separate admonitions. Two "Note:" following "Example:" have been turned into ordinary paragraphs within the example. NOTE: Because qapidoc.py does not attempt to preserve source ordering of sections, the conversion of Notes from a "tagged section" to an "untagged section" means that rendering order for some notes *may change* as a result of this patch. The forthcoming qapidoc.py rewrite strictly preserves source ordering in the rendered documentation, so this issue will be rectified in the new generator. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> [for block*.json] Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-11-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> [Commit message clarified slightly, period added to one more note] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2024-07-06qapi/parser: fix comment parsing immediately following a doc blockJohn Snow
If a comment immediately follows a doc block, the parser doesn't ignore that token appropriately. Fix that. e.g. > ## > # = Hello World! > ## > > # I'm a comment! will break the parser, because it does not properly ignore the comment token if it immediately follows a doc block. Fixes: 3d035cd2cca6 (qapi: Rewrite doc comment parser) Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-7-jsnow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2024-07-06qapi/parser: preserve indentation in QAPIDoc sectionsJohn Snow
Change get_doc_indented() to preserve indentation on all subsequent text lines, and create a compatibility dedent() function for qapidoc.py that removes indentation the same way get_doc_indented() did. This is being done for the benefit of a new qapidoc generator which requires that indentation in argument and features sections are preserved. Prior to this patch, a section like this: ``` @name: lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit ``` would have its body text be parsed into: ``` lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit ``` We want to preserve the indentation for even the first body line so that the entire block can be parsed directly as rST. This patch would now parse that segment into: ``` lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit ``` This is helpful for formatting arguments and features as field lists in rST, where the new generator will format this information as: ``` :arg type name: lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur apidiscing elit ``` ...and can be formed by the simple concatenation of the field list construct and the body text. The indents help preserve the continuation of a block-level element, and further allow the use of additional rST block-level constructs such as code blocks, lists, and other such markup. This understandably breaks the existing qapidoc.py; so a new function is added there to dedent the text for compatibility. Once the new generator is merged, this function will not be needed any longer and can be dropped. I verified this patch changes absolutely nothing by comparing the md5sums of the QMP ref html pages both before and after the change, so it's certified inert. QAPI test output has been updated to reflect the new strategy of preserving indents for rST. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-6-jsnow@redhat.com> [Lost commit message paragraph restored] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2024-04-24qapi/parser.py: assert member.info is present in connect_memberJohn Snow
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240315152301.3621858-21-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-04-24qapi/parser: demote QAPIExpression to Dict[str, Any]John Snow
Dict[str, object] is a stricter type, but with the way that code is currently arranged, it is infeasible to enforce this strictness. In particular, although expr.py's entire raison d'être is normalization and type-checking of QAPI Expressions, that type information is not "remembered" in any meaningful way by mypy because each individual expression is not downcast to a specific expression type that holds all the details of each expression's unique form. As a result, all of the code in schema.py that deals with actually creating type-safe specialized structures has no guarantee (myopically) that the data it is being passed is correct. There are two ways to solve this: (1) Re-assert that the incoming data is in the shape we expect it to be, or (2) Disable type checking for this data. (1) is appealing to my sense of strictness, but I gotta concede that it is asinine to re-check the shape of a QAPIExpression in schema.py when expr.py has just completed that work at length. The duplication of code and the nightmare thought of needing to update both locations if and when we change the shape of these structures makes me extremely reluctant to go down this route. (2) allows us the chance to miss updating types in the case that types are updated in expr.py, but it *is* an awful lot simpler and, importantly, gets us closer to type checking schema.py *at all*. Something is better than nothing, I'd argue. So, do the simpler dumber thing and worry about future strictness improvements later. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240315152301.3621858-20-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-04-24qapi/parser: shush up pylintJohn Snow
Shhh! Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240315152301.3621858-3-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-04-24qapi/parser: fix typo - self.returns.info => self.errors.infoJohn Snow
Small copy-pasto. The correct info field to use in this conditional block is self.errors.info. Fixes: 3a025d3d1ffa Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240315152301.3621858-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-03-04qapi: Reject "Returns" section when command doesn't return anythingMarkus Armbruster
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-14-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-03-04qapi: New documentation section tag "Errors"Markus Armbruster
We use section "Returns" for documenting both success and error response of commands. I intend to generate better command success response documentation. Easier when "Returns" documents just he success response. Create new section tag "Errors". The next two commits will move error response documentation from "Returns" sections to "Errors" sections. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-4-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-03-04qapi: Slightly clearer error message for invalid "Returns" sectionMarkus Armbruster
Change "'Returns:' is only valid for commands" to "'Returns' section is only valid for commands". Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-3-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-03-04qapi: Memorize since & returns sectionsMarkus Armbruster
This is chiefly to make code that looks up these sections easier to read. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-2-armbru@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Divorce QAPIDoc from QAPIParseErrorMarkus Armbruster
QAPIDoc stores a reference to QAPIParser just to pass it to QAPIParseError. The resulting error position depends on the state of the parser. It happens to be the current comment line. Servicable, but action at a distance. The commit before previous moved most uses of QAPIParseError from QAPIDoc to QAPIParser. There are just three left. Convert them to QAPISemError. This involves passing info to a few methods. Then drop the reference to QAPIParser. The three errors lose the column number. Not really interesting here: it's the comment line's indentation. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-17-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Reject multiple and empty feature descriptionsMarkus Armbruster
The parser recognizes only the first "Features:" line. Any subsequent ones are treated as ordinary text, as visible in test case doc-duplicate-features. Recognize "Features:" lines anywhere. A second one is an error. A 'Features:' line without any features is useless, but not an error. Make it an error. This makes detecting a second "Features:" line easier. qapi/run-state.json actually has an instance of this since commit fe17522d854 (qapi: Remove deprecated 'singlestep' member of StatusInfo). Clean it up. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-16-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Rewrite doc comment parserMarkus Armbruster
QAPISchemaParser is a conventional recursive descent parser. Except QAPISchemaParser.get_doc() delegates most of the doc comment parsing work to a state machine in QAPIDoc. The state machine doesn't get tokens like a recursive descent parser, it is fed tokens. I find this state machine rather opaque and hard to maintain. Replace it by a conventional parser, all in QAPISchemaParser. Less code, and (at least in my opinion) easier to understand. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-15-armbru@redhat.com> Tested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Merge adjacent untagged sectionsMarkus Armbruster
The parser mostly doesn't create adjacent untagged sections, and merging the ones it does create is hardly worth the bother. I'm doing it to avoid behavioral change in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-14-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Recognize section tags and 'Features:' only after blank lineMarkus Armbruster
Putting a blank line before section tags and 'Features:' is good, existing practice. Enforce it. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-12-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Require descriptions and tagged sections to be indentedMarkus Armbruster
By convention, we indent the second and subsequent lines of descriptions and tagged sections, except for examples. Turn this into a hard rule, and apply it to examples, too. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-11-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> [Straightforward conflicts in qapi/migration.json resolved]
2024-02-26qapi: Reject section heading in the middle of a doc commentMarkus Armbruster
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt claims "A heading line must be the first line of the documentation comment block" since commit 55ec69f8b16 (docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt: Update to new rST backend conventions). Not true, we have code to make it work anywhere in a free-form doc comment: commit dcdc07a97cb (qapi: Make section headings start a new doc comment block). Make it true, for simplicity's sake. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-10-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Rename QAPIDoc.Section.name to .tagMarkus Armbruster
Since the previous commit, QAPIDoc.Section.name is either None (untagged section) or the section's tag string ('Returns', '@name', ...). Rename it to .tag. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-9-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Improve error message for empty doc sectionsMarkus Armbruster
Improve the message for an empty tagged section from empty doc section 'Note' to text required after 'Note:' and the message for an empty argument or feature description from empty doc section 'foo' to text required after '@foo:' Improve the error position to refer to the beginning of the empty section instead of its end. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-8-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Improve error position for bogus invalid "Returns" sectionMarkus Armbruster
When something other than a command has a "Returns" section, the error message points to the beginning of the definition comment. Point to the "Returns" section instead. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-7-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-26qapi: Improve error position for bogus argument descriptionsMarkus Armbruster
When documented arguments don't exist, the error message points to the beginning of the definition comment. Point to the first bogus argument description instead. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-6-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2024-02-12qapi: Require member documentation (with loophole)Markus Armbruster
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>
2024-01-26qapi: Fix dangling references to docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txtMarkus Armbruster
Conversion of docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST left several dangling references behind. Fix them to point to docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst. Fixes: f7aa076dbdfc (docs: convert qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST) Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-4-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2023-10-19qapi: re-establish linting baselineJohn Snow
Some very minor housekeeping to make the linters happy once more. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20231004230532.3002201-4-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-05-22qapi: Improve error message for description following sectionMarkus Armbruster
The error message is bad when the section is untagged. For instance, test case doc-interleaved-section produces "'@foobar:' can't follow 'Note' section", which is okay, but if we drop the "Note:" tag, we get "'@foobar:' can't follow 'None' section, which is bad. Change the error message to "description of '@foobar:' follows a section". Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230510141637.3685080-1-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> [Conflict with commit 3e32dca3f0d resolved]
2023-05-17qapi/parser: Drop two bad type hints for nowMarkus Armbruster
Two type hints fail centos-stream-8-x86_64 CI. They are actually broken. Changing them to Optional[re.Match[str]] fixes them locally for me, but then CI fails differently. Drop them for now. Fixes: 3e32dca3f0d1 (qapi: Rewrite parsing of doc comment section symbols and tags) Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230517061600.1782455-1-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Tested-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
2023-05-10qapi: Section parameter @indent is no longer used, dropMarkus Armbruster
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-15-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
2023-05-10qapi: Relax doc string @name: description indentation rulesMarkus Armbruster
The QAPI schema doc comment language provides special syntax for command and event arguments, struct and union members, alternate branches, enumeration values, and features: descriptions starting with "@name:". By convention, we format them like this: # @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, # sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore # magna aliqua. Okay for names as short as "name", but we have much longer ones. Their description gets squeezed against the right margin, like this: # @dirty-sync-missed-zero-copy: Number of times dirty RAM synchronization could # not avoid copying dirty pages. This is between # 0 and @dirty-sync-count * @multifd-channels. # (since 7.1) The description text is effectively just 50 characters wide. Easy enough to read, but can be cumbersome to write. The awkward squeeze against the right margin makes people go beyond it, which produces two undesirables: arguments about style, and descriptions that are unnecessarily hard to read, like this one: # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is # only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability # is enabled. (Since 3.0) We could instead format it like # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: # list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present # when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is # enabled. (Since 3.0) or, since the commit before previous, like # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: # list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present # when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is # enabled. (Since 3.0) However, I'd rather have # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. # This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration # capability is enabled. (Since 3.0) because this is how rST field and option lists work. To get this, we need to let the first non-blank line after the "@name:" line determine expected indentation. This fills up the indentation pitfall mentioned in docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst. A related pitfall still exists. Update the text to show it. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-14-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> [Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
2023-05-10qapi: Rewrite parsing of doc comment section symbols and tagsMarkus Armbruster
To recognize a line starting with a section symbol and or tag, we first split it at the first space, then examine the part left of the space. We can just as well examine the unsplit line, so do that. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-13-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> [Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
2023-05-09qapi: Fix argument description indentation strippingMarkus Armbruster
When an argument's description starts on the line after the "#arg: " line, indentation is stripped only from the description's first line, as demonstrated by the previous commit. Moreover, subsequent lines with less indentation are not rejected. Make the first line's indentation the expected indentation for the remainder of the description. This fixes indentation stripping, and also requires at least that much indentation. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-12-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
2023-05-09qapi: Fix crash on stray double quote characterMarkus Armbruster
When the lexer chokes on a stray character, its shows the characters until the next structural character in the error message. It uses a regular expression to match a non-empty string of non-structural characters. Bug: the regular expression treats '"' as structural. When the lexer chokes on '"', the match fails, and trips must_match()'s assertion. Fix the regular expression. Fixes: 14c32795024c (qapi: Improve reporting of lexical errors) Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-4-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
2023-02-23qapi: remove JSON value FIXMEJohn Snow
With the two major JSON-ish type hierarchies clarified for distinct purposes; QAPIExpression for parsed expressions and JSONValue for introspection data, remove this FIXME as no longer an action item. A third JSON-y data type, _ExprValue, is not meant to represent JSON in the abstract but rather only the possible legal return values from a single function, get_expr(). It isn't appropriate to attempt to merge it with either of the above two types. In theory, it may be possible to define a completely agnostic one-size-fits-all JSON type hierarchy that any other user could borrow - in practice, it's tough to wrangle the differences between invariant, covariant and contravariant types: input and output parameters demand different properties of such a structure. However, QAPIExpression serves to authoritatively type user input to the QAPI parser, while JSONValue serves to authoritatively type qapi generator *output* to be served back to client users at runtime via QMP. The AST for these two types are different and cannot be wholly merged into a unified syntax. They could, in theory, share some JSON primitive definitions. In practice, this is currently more trouble than it's worth with mypy's current expressive power. As such, declare this "done enough for now". Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230215000011.1725012-7-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-02-23qapi: remove _JSONObjectJohn Snow
We can remove this alias as it only has two usages now, and no longer pays for the confusion of "yet another type". Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230215000011.1725012-6-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2023-02-23qapi/parser: add QAPIExpression typeJohn Snow
This patch creates a new type, QAPIExpression, which represents a parsed expression complete with QAPIDoc and QAPISourceInfo. This patch turns parser.exprs into a list of QAPIExpression instead, and adjusts expr.py to match. This allows the types we specify in parser.py to be "remembered" all the way through expr.py and into schema.py. Several assertions around packing and unpacking this data can be removed as a result. It also corrects a harmless typing error. Before the patch, check_exprs() allegedly takes a List[_JSONObject]. It actually takes a list of dicts of the form {'expr': E, 'info': I, 'doc': D} where E is of type _ExprValue, I is of type QAPISourceInfo, and D is of type QAPIDoc. Key 'doc' is optional. This is not a _JSONObject! Passes type checking anyway, because _JSONObject is Dict[str, object]. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230215000011.1725012-5-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> [Commit message amended to point out the typing fix]
2021-10-02qapi/parser: Silence too-few-public-methods warningJohn Snow
Eh. Not worth the fuss today. There are bigger fish to fry. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-13-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: Add FIXME for consolidating JSON-related typesJohn Snow
The fix for this comment is forthcoming in a future commit, but this will keep me honest. The linting configuration in ./python/setup.cfg prohibits 'FIXME' comments. A goal of this long-running series is to move ./scripts/qapi to ./python/qemu/qapi so that the QAPI generator is regularly type-checked by GitLab CI. This comment is a time-bomb to force me to address this issue prior to that step. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-11-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: add type hint annotations (QAPIDoc)John Snow
Annotations do not change runtime behavior. This commit consists of only annotations. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-10-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: add import cycle workaroundJohn Snow
Adding static types causes a cycle in the QAPI generator: [schema -> expr -> parser -> schema]. It exists because the QAPIDoc class needs the names of types defined by the schema module, but the schema module needs to import both expr.py/parser.py to do its actual parsing. Ultimately, the layering violation is that parser.py should not have any knowledge of specifics of the Schema. QAPIDoc performs double-duty here both as a parser *and* as a finalized object that is part of the schema. In this patch, add the offending type hints alongside the workaround to avoid the cycle becoming a problem at runtime. See https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runtime_troubles.html#import-cycles for more information on this workaround technique. I see three ultimate resolutions here: (1) Just keep this patch and use the TYPE_CHECKING trick to eliminate the cycle which is only present during static analysis. (2) Don't bother to annotate connect_member() et al, give them 'object' or 'Any'. I don't particularly like this, because it diminishes the usefulness of type hints for documentation purposes. Still, it's an extremely quick fix. (3) Reimplement doc <--> definition correlation directly in schema.py, integrating doc fields directly into QAPISchemaMember and relieving the QAPIDoc class of the responsibility. Users of the information would instead visit the members first and retrieve their documentation instead of the inverse operation -- visiting the documentation and retrieving their members. My preference is (3), but in the short-term (1) is the easiest way to have my cake (strong type hints) and eat it too (Not have import cycles). Do (1) for now, but plan for (3). Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-9-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: Introduce NullSectionJohn Snow
Here's the weird bit. QAPIDoc generally expects -- virtually everywhere -- that it will always have a current section. The sole exception to this is in the case that end_comment() is called, which leaves us with *no* section. However, in this case, we also don't expect to actually ever mutate the comment contents ever again. NullSection is just a Null-object that allows us to maintain the invariant that we *always* have a current section, enforced by static typing -- allowing us to type that field as QAPIDoc.Section instead of the more ambiguous Optional[QAPIDoc.Section]. end_section is renamed to switch_section and now accepts as an argument the new section to activate, clarifying that no callers ever just unilaterally end a section; they only do so when starting a new section. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-8-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: clarify _end_section() logicJohn Snow
The "if self._section" clause in end_section is mysterious: In which circumstances might we end a section when we don't have one? QAPIDoc always expects there to be a "current section", only except after a call to end_comment(). This actually *shouldn't* ever be 'None', so let's remove that logic so I don't wonder why it's like this again in three months. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-7-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: remove FIXME comment from _append_body_lineJohn Snow
True, we do not check the validity of this symbol -- but we don't check the validity of definition names during parse, either -- that happens later, during the expr check. I don't want to introduce a dependency on expr.py:check_name_str here and introduce a cycle. Instead, rest assured that a documentation block is required for each definition. This requirement uses the names of each section to ensure that we fulfilled this requirement. e.g., let's say that block-core.json has a comment block for "Snapshot!Info" by accident. We'll see this error message: In file included from ../../qapi/block.json:8: ../../qapi/block-core.json: In struct 'SnapshotInfo': ../../qapi/block-core.json:38: documentation comment is for 'Snapshot!Info' That's a pretty decent error message. Now, let's say that we actually mangle it twice, identically: ../../qapi/block-core.json: In struct 'Snapshot!Info': ../../qapi/block-core.json:38: struct has an invalid name That's also pretty decent. If we forget to fix it in both places, we'll just be back to the first error. Therefore, let's just drop this FIXME and adjust the error message to not imply a more thorough check than is actually performed. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-6-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-10-02qapi/parser: fix unused check_args_section argumentsJohn Snow
Pylint informs us we're not using these arguments. Oops, it's right. Correct the error message and remove the remaining unused parameter. Fix test output now that the error message is improved. Fixes: e151941d1b Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-4-jsnow@redhat.com> [Commit message formatting tweaked] Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-05-20qapi/parser: add docstringsJohn Snow
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210519183951.3946870-16-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> [Doc string spacing tweaked slightly] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-05-20qapi/parser: Remove superfluous list comprehensionJohn Snow
A generator suffices (and quiets a pylint warning). Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210519183951.3946870-14-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-05-20qapi/parser: add type hint annotationsJohn Snow
Annotations do not change runtime behavior. This commit *only* adds annotations. (Annotations for QAPIDoc are in a forthcoming commit.) Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210519183951.3946870-13-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-05-20qapi/parser: Rework _check_pragma_list_of_str as a TypeGuardJohn Snow
TypeGuards wont exist in Python proper until 3.10. Ah well. We can hack up our own by declaring this function to return the type we claim it checks for and using this to safely downcast object -> List[str]. In so doing, I bring this function under _pragma so it can use the 'info' object in its closure. Having done this, _pragma also now no longer needs to take a 'self' parameter, so drop it. To help with line-length, and with the context evident from its new scope, rename the function to the shorter check_list_str(). Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210519183951.3946870-12-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2021-05-20qapi/parser: Fix token membership tests when token can be NoneJohn Snow
When the token can be None (EOF), we can't use 'x in "abc"' style membership tests to group types of tokens together, because 'None in "abc"' is a TypeError. Easy enough to fix. (Use a tuple: It's neither a static typing error nor a runtime error to check for None in Tuple[str, ...]) Add tests to prevent a regression. (Note: they cannot be added prior to this fix, as the unhandled stack trace will not match test output in the CI system.) Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210519183951.3946870-11-jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>