qapi: Provide nicer array names in introspection

For the sake of humans reading introspection output, it is nice
to have the name of implicit array types be recognizable as
arrays of the underlying type.  However, while this patch allows
humans to skip from a command with return type "[123]" straight
to the definition of type "123" without having to first inspect
type "[123]", document that this shortcut should not be taken by
client apps.

This makes the resulting introspection string slightly larger by
default (just over 200 bytes), but it's in the noise (less than
0.3% of the overall 70k size of 'query-qmp-capabilities').

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1446791754-23823-12-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Eric Blake 2015-11-05 23:35:35 -07:00 committed by Markus Armbruster
parent 2533377c7b
commit ce5fcb472d
2 changed files with 10 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -662,11 +662,14 @@ Example: the SchemaInfo for BlockRef from section Alternate types
The SchemaInfo for an array type has meta-type "array", and variant
member "element-type", which names the array's element type. Array
types are implicitly defined.
types are implicitly defined. For convenience, the array's name may
resemble the element type; however, clients should examine member
"element-type" instead of making assumptions based on parsing member
"name".
Example: the SchemaInfo for ['str']
{ "name": "strList", "meta-type": "array",
{ "name": "[str]", "meta-type": "array",
"element-type": "str" }
The SchemaInfo for an enumeration type has meta-type "enum" and

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@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ const char %(c_name)s[] = %(c_string)s;
# characters.
if isinstance(typ, QAPISchemaBuiltinType):
return typ.name
if isinstance(typ, QAPISchemaArrayType):
return '[' + self._use_type(typ.element_type) + ']'
return self._name(typ.name)
def _gen_json(self, name, mtype, obj):
if mtype != 'command' and mtype != 'event' and mtype != 'builtin':
if mtype not in ('command', 'event', 'builtin', 'array'):
name = self._name(name)
obj['name'] = name
obj['meta-type'] = mtype
@ -136,8 +138,8 @@ const char %(c_name)s[] = %(c_string)s;
self._gen_json(name, 'enum', {'values': values})
def visit_array_type(self, name, info, element_type):
self._gen_json(name, 'array',
{'element-type': self._use_type(element_type)})
element = self._use_type(element_type)
self._gen_json('[' + element + ']', 'array', {'element-type': element})
def visit_object_type_flat(self, name, info, members, variants):
obj = {'members': [self._gen_member(m) for m in members]}