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>

We were previously enforcing that all flat union branches were
found in the corresponding enum, but not that all enum values
were covered by branches.  The resulting generated code would
abort() if the user passes the uncovered enum value.

We don't automatically treat non-present branches in a flat
union as empty types, for symmetry with simple unions (there,
the enum type is generated from the list of all branches, so
there is no way to omit a branch but still have it be part of
the union).

A later patch will add shorthand so that branches that are empty
in flat unions can be declared as 'branch':{} instead of
'branch':'Empty', to avoid the need for an otherwise useless
explicit empty type.  [Such shorthand for simple unions is a bit
harder to justify, since we would still have to generate a
wrapper type that parses 'data':{}, rather than truly being an
empty branch with no additional siblings to the 'type' member.]
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1468468228-27827-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>