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    qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor · 3bc97fd5
    Eric Blake 提交于
    Right now, qmp-output-visitor happens to produce a QNull result
    if nothing is actually visited between the creation of the visitor
    and the request for the resulting QObject.  A stronger protocol
    would require that a QMP output visit MUST visit something.  But
    to still be able to produce a JSON 'null' output, we need a new
    visitor function that states our intentions.  Yes, we could say
    that such a visit must go through visit_type_any(), but that
    feels clunky.
    
    So this patch introduces the new visit_type_null() interface and
    its no-op interface in the dealloc visitor, and stubs in the
    qmp visitors (the next patch will finish the implementation).
    For the visitors that will not implement the callback, document
    the situation. The code in qapi-visit-core unconditionally
    dereferences the callback pointer, so that a segfault will inform
    a developer if they need to implement the callback for their
    choice of visitor.
    
    Note that JSON has a primitive null type, with the single value
    null; likewise with the QNull type for QObject; but for QAPI,
    we just have the 'null' value without a null type.  We may
    eventually want to add more support in QAPI for null (most likely,
    we'd use it via an alternate type that permits 'null' or an
    object); but we'll create that usage when we need it.
    Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-15-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
    3bc97fd5
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