As the name suggests, the qapi2texi script converts JSON QAPI
description into a texi file suitable for different target
formats (info/man/txt/pdf/html...).

It parses the following kind of blocks:

Free-form:

  ##
  # = Section
  # == Subsection
  #
  # Some text foo with *emphasis*
  # 1. with a list
  # 2. like that
  #
  # And some code:
  # | $ echo foo
  # | -> do this
  # | <- get that
  #
  ##

Symbol description:

  ##
  # @symbol:
  #
  # Symbol body ditto ergo sum. Foo bar
  # baz ding.
  #
  # @param1: the frob to frobnicate
  # @param2: #optional how hard to frobnicate
  #
  # Returns: the frobnicated frob.
  #          If frob isn't frobnicatable, GenericError.
  #
  # Since: version
  # Notes: notes, comments can have
  #        - itemized list
  #        - like this
  #
  # Example:
  #
  # -> { "execute": "quit" }
  # <- { "return": {} }
  #
  ##

That's roughly following the following EBNF grammar:

api_comment = "##\n" comment "##\n"
comment = freeform_comment | symbol_comment
freeform_comment = { "# " text "\n" | "#\n" }
symbol_comment = "# @" name ":\n" { member | tag_section | freeform_comment }
member = "# @" name ':' [ text ] "\n" freeform_comment
tag_section = "# " ( "Returns:", "Since:", "Note:", "Notes:", "Example:", "Examples:" ) [ text ]  "\n" freeform_comment
text = free text with markup

Note that the grammar is ambiguous: a line "# @foo:\n" can be parsed
both as freeform_comment and as symbol_comment.  The actual parser
recognizes symbol_comment.

See docs/qapi-code-gen.txt for more details.

Deficiencies and limitations:
- the generated QMP documentation includes internal types
- union type support is lacking
- type information is lacking in generated documentation
- doc comment error message positions are imprecise, they point
  to the beginning of the comment.
- a few minor issues, all marked TODO/FIXME in the code
Signed-off-by: NMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170113144135.5150-16-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[test-qapi.py tweaked to avoid trailing empty lines in .out]
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Expose some weaknesses in the generator: we don't always forbid
the generation of structs that contain multiple members that map
to the same C or QMP name.  This has already been marked FIXME in
qapi.py in commit d90675fa, but having more tests will make sure
future patches produce desired behavior; and updating existing
patches to better document things doesn't hurt, either.  Some of
these collisions are already caught in the old-style parser
checks, but ultimately we want all collisions to be caught in the
new-style QAPISchema*.check() methods.

This patch focuses on C struct members, and does not consider
collisions between commands and events (affecting C function
names), or even collisions between generated C type names with
user type names (for things like automatic FOOList struct
representing array types or FOOKind for an implicit enum).

There are two types of struct collisions we want to catch:
 1) Collision between two keys in a JSON object. qapi.py prevents
    that within a single struct (see test duplicate-key), but it is
    possible to have collisions between a type's members and its
    base type's members (existing tests struct-base-clash,
    struct-base-clash-deep), and its flat union variant members
    (renamed test flat-union-clash-member).
 2) Collision between two members of the C struct that is generated
    for a given QAPI type:
    a) Multiple QAPI names map to the same C name (new test
       args-name-clash)
    b) A QAPI name maps to a C name that is used for another purpose
       (new tests flat-union-clash-branch, struct-base-clash-base,
       union-clash-data). We already fixed some such cases in commit
       0f61af3e and 1e6c1616, but more remain.
    c) Two C names generated for other purposes clash
       (updated test alternate-clash, new test union-clash-branches,
       union-clash-type, flat-union-clash-type)

Ultimately, if we need to have a flat union where a tag value
clashes with a base member name, we could change the generator to
name the union (using 'foo.u.value' rather than 'foo.value') or
otherwise munge the C name corresponding to tag values.  But
unless such a need arises, it will probably be easier to just
forbid these collisions.

Some of these negative tests will be deleted later, and positive
tests added to qapi-schema-test.json in their place, when the
generator code is reworked to avoid particular code generation
collisions in class 2).

[Note that viewing this patch with git rename detection enabled
may see some confusion due to renaming some tests while adding
others, but where the content is similar enough that git picks
the wrong pre- and post-patch files to associate]
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1443565276-4535-6-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Improve commit message and comments a bit, drop an unrelated test]
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Referring to "type" as both a meta-type (built-in, enum, union,
alternate, or struct) and a specific type (the name that the
schema uses for declaring structs) is confusing.  Do the bulk of
the conversion to "struct" in qapi schema, with a fairly
mechanical:

for f in `find -name '*.json'; do sed -i "s/'type'/'struct'/"; done

followed by manually filtering out the places where we have a
'type' embedded in 'data'.  Then tweak a couple of tests whose
output changes slightly due to longer lines.

I also verified that the generated files for QMP and QGA (such
as qmp-commands.h) are the same before and after, as assurance
that I didn't leave in any accidental member name changes.
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Referring to "type" as both a meta-type (built-in, enum, union,
alternate, or struct) and a specific type (the name that the
schema uses for declaring structs) is confusing.  The confusion
is only made worse by the fact that the generator mostly already
refers to struct even when dealing with expr['type'].  This
commit changes the generator to consistently refer to it as
struct everywhere, plus a single back-compat tweak that allows
accepting the existing .json files as-is, so that the meat of
this change is separate from the mindless churn of that change.

Fix the testsuite fallout for error messages that change, and
in some cases, become more legible.  Improve comments to better
match our intentions where a struct (rather than any complex
type) is required.  Note that in some cases, an error message
now refers to 'struct' while the schema still refers to 'type';
that will be cleaned up in the later commit to the schema.
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Demonstrate that the qapi generator doesn't deal well with unions
that aren't up to par. Later patches will update the expected
reseults as the generator is made stricter.  A few tests work
as planned, but most show poor or missing error messages.

Of particular note, qapi-code-gen.txt documents 'base' only for
flat unions, but the tests here demonstrate that we currently allow
a 'base' to a simple union, although it is exercised only in the
testsuite.  Later patches will remove this undocumented feature, to
give us more flexibility in adding other future extensions to union
types.  For example, one possible extension is the idea of a
type-safe simple enum, where added fields tie the discriminator to
a user-defined enum type rather than creating an implicit enum from
the names in 'data'.  But adding such safety on top of a simple
enum with a base type could look ambiguous with a flat enum;
besides, the documentation also mentions how any simple union can
be represented by an equivalent flat union.  So it will be simpler
to just outlaw support for something we aren't using.
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Since enum based discriminators provide better type-safety and
ensure that future qapi additions do not forget to adjust dependent
unions, forbid using string as discriminator from now on.
Signed-off-by: NWenchao Xia <wenchaoqemu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Since line info is remembered as QAPISchema.line now, this patch
uses it as additional info for every expr in QAPISchema inside qapi.py,
then improves error message with it in checking of exprs.

For common union the patch will check whether base is a valid complex
type if specified. For flat union it will check whether base presents,
whether discriminator is found in base, whether the key of every branch
is correct when discriminator is an enum type.
Signed-off-by: NWenchao Xia <wenchaoqemu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>