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Eric Blake 3bc97fd592 qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor
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: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-15-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
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Makefile.objs rename parse_enum_option to qapi_enum_parse and make it public 2014-09-08 11:12:43 +01:00
block-core.json block: add generic full disk encryption driver 2016-03-30 12:11:26 +02:00
block.json qmp event: Refactor QUORUM_REPORT_BAD 2016-03-14 16:46:43 +01:00
common.json kvm: add support for -machine kernel_irqchip=split 2015-12-17 17:15:40 +01:00
crypto.json crypto: implement the LUKS block encryption format 2016-03-17 16:50:40 +00:00
event.json qmp event: Refactor QUORUM_REPORT_BAD 2016-03-14 16:46:43 +01:00
introspect.json qapi: Use anonymous bases in QMP flat unions 2016-03-18 10:29:26 +01:00
opts-visitor.c qapi: Guarantee NULL obj on input visitor callback error 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qapi-dealloc-visitor.c qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qapi-util.c include/qemu/osdep.h: Don't include qapi/error.h 2016-03-22 22:20:15 +01:00
qapi-visit-core.c qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qmp-dispatch.c qmp: Drop dead command->type 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qmp-event.c qapi: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
qmp-input-visitor.c qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qmp-output-visitor.c qapi: Add visit_type_null() visitor 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
qmp-registry.c qmp: Drop dead command->type 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
rocker.json qmp/hmp: add rocker device support 2015-06-12 13:42:17 +01:00
string-input-visitor.c qapi: Guarantee NULL obj on input visitor callback error 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
string-output-visitor.c qapi-visit: Add visitor.type classification 2016-05-12 09:47:54 +02:00
trace.json qapi: Use 'struct' instead of 'type' in schema 2015-05-05 18:39:01 +02:00