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>

Add some testsuite coverage to ensure future patches are on
the right track:

Our current C representation of qapi arrays is done by appending
'List' to the element name; but we are not preventing the
creation of an object type with the same name.  Add
reserved-type-list.json to test this.  Then rename
enum-union-clash.json to reserved-type-kind.json to cover the
reservation that we DO detect, and shorten it to match the fact
that the name is reserved even if there is no clash.

We are failing to detect a collision between a dictionary member
and the implicit 'has_*' flag for another optional member. The
easiest fix would be for a future patch to reserve the entire
"has[-_]" namespace for member names (the collision is also
possible for branch names within flat unions, but only as long as
branch names can collide with (non-variant) members; however,
since future patches are about to remove that, it is not worth
testing here). Add reserved-member-has.json to test this.

A similar collision exists between a dictionary member where
c_name() munges what might otherwise be a reserved name to start
with 'q_', and another member explicitly starts with "q[-_]".
Again, the easiest solution for a future patch will be reserving
the entire namespace, but here for commands as well as members.
Add reserved-member-q.json and reserved-command-q.json to test
this; separate tests since arguably our munging of command 'unix'
to 'qmp_q_unix()' could be done without a q_, which is different
than the munging of a member 'unix' to 'foo.q_unix'.

Finally, our testsuite does not have any compilation coverage
of struct inheritance with empty qapi structs.  Update
qapi-schema-test.json to test this.

Note that there is currently no technical reason to forbid type
name patterns from member names, or member name patterns from
types, since the two are not in the same namespace in C and
won't collide; but it's not worth adding positive tests of these
corner cases at this time, especially while there is other churn
pending in patches that rearrange which collisions actually
happen.
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1445898903-12082-2-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[Commit message tweaked slightly]
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

The previous commit demonstrated that the generator overlooked
duplicate expressions:
- a complex type or command reusing a built-in type name
- redeclaration of a type name, whether by the same or different
metatype
- redeclaration of a command or event
- collision of a type with implicit 'Kind' enum for a union
- collision with an implicit MAX enum constant

Since the c_type() function in the generator treats all names
as being in the same namespace, this patch adds a global array
to track all known names and their source, to prevent collisions
before it can cause further problems.  While valid .json files
won't trigger any of these cases, we might as well be nicer to
developers that make a typo while trying to add new QAPI code.
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 enums
that aren't up to par. Later patches will update the expected
results as the generator is made stricter.
Signed-off-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>