Fully eliminate the "Example" sections in QAPI doc blocks now that they
have all been converted to arbitrary rST syntax using the
".. qmp-example::" directive. Update tests to match.
Migrating to the new syntax
---------------------------
The old "Example:" or "Examples:" section syntax is now caught as an
error, but "Example::" is stil permitted as explicit rST syntax for an
un-lexed, generic preformatted text block.
('Example' is not special in this case, any sentence that ends with "::"
will start an indented code block in rST.)
Arbitrary rST for Examples is now possible, but it's strongly
recommended that documentation authors use the ".. qmp-example::"
directive for consistent visual formatting in rendered HTML docs. The
":title:" directive option may be used to add extra information into the
title bar for the example. The ":annotated:" option can be used to write
arbitrary rST instead, with nested "::" blocks applying QMP formatting
where desired.
Other choices available are ".. code-block:: QMP" which will not create
an "Example:" box, or the short-form "::" code-block syntax which will
not apply QMP highlighting when used outside of the qmp-example
directive.
Why?
----
This patch has several benefits:
1. Example sections can now be written more arbitrarily, mixing
explanatory paragraphs and code blocks however desired.
2. Example sections can now use fully arbitrary rST.
3. All code blocks are now lexed and validated as QMP; increasing
usability of the docs and ensuring validity of example snippets.
(To some extent - This patch only gaurantees it lexes correctly, not
that it's valid under the JSON or QMP grammars. It will catch most
small mistakes, however.)
4. Each qmp-example can be titled or annotated independently without
bypassing the QMP lexer/validator.
(i.e. code blocks are now for *code* only, so we don't have to
sacrifice exposition for having lexically valid examples.)
NOTE: As with the "Notes" conversion (d461c27973), this patch (and the
three preceding) may change the rendering order for Examples in
the current generator. The forthcoming qapidoc rewrite will fix
this by always generating documentation in source order.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240717021312.606116-10-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The double-colon synax is rST formatting that precedes a literal code
block. We do not want to capture these as QAPI-specific sections.
Coerce blocks that start with e.g. "Example::" to be parsed as untagged
paragraphs instead of special tagged sections.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-14-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Indentation tweaked for consistency]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
We do not need a dedicated section for notes. By eliminating a specially
parsed section, these notes can be treated as normal rST paragraphs in
the new QMP reference manual, and can be placed and styled much more
flexibly.
Convert all existing "Note" and "Notes" sections to pure rST. As part of
the conversion, capitalize the first letter of each sentence and add
trailing punctuation where appropriate to ensure notes look sensible and
consistent in rendered HTML documentation. Markup is also re-aligned to
the de-facto standard of 3 spaces for directives.
Update docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst to reflect the new paradigm, and
update the QAPI parser to prohibit "Note" sections while suggesting a
new syntax. The exact formatting to use is a matter of taste, but a good
candidate is simply:
.. note:: lorem ipsum ...
... dolor sit amet ...
... consectetur adipiscing elit ...
... but there are other choices, too. The Sphinx readthedocs theme
offers theming for the following forms (capitalization unimportant); all
are adorned with a (!) symbol () in the title bar for rendered HTML
docs.
See
https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/demo/demo.html#admonitions
for examples of each directive/admonition in use.
These are rendered in orange:
.. Attention:: ...
.. Caution:: ...
.. WARNING:: ...
These are rendered in red:
.. DANGER:: ...
.. Error:: ...
These are rendered in green:
.. Hint:: ...
.. Important:: ...
.. Tip:: ...
These are rendered in blue:
.. Note:: ...
.. admonition:: custom title
admonition body text
This patch uses ".. note::" almost everywhere, with just two "caution"
directives. Several instances of "Notes:" have been converted to
merely ".. note::", or multiple ".. note::" where appropriate.
".. admonition:: notes" is used in a few places where we had an
ordered list of multiple notes that would not make sense as
standalone/separate admonitions. Two "Note:" following "Example:"
have been turned into ordinary paragraphs within the example.
NOTE: Because qapidoc.py does not attempt to preserve source ordering of
sections, the conversion of Notes from a "tagged section" to an
"untagged section" means that rendering order for some notes *may
change* as a result of this patch. The forthcoming qapidoc.py rewrite
strictly preserves source ordering in the rendered documentation, so
this issue will be rectified in the new generator.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> [for block*.json]
Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-11-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message clarified slightly, period added to one more note]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
If a comment immediately follows a doc block, the parser doesn't ignore
that token appropriately. Fix that.
e.g.
> ##
> # = Hello World!
> ##
>
> # I'm a comment!
will break the parser, because it does not properly ignore the comment
token if it immediately follows a doc block.
Fixes: 3d035cd2cc (qapi: Rewrite doc comment parser)
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240626222128.406106-7-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
We use section "Returns" for documenting both success and error
response of commands.
I intend to generate better command success response documentation.
Easier when "Returns" documents just he success response.
Create new section tag "Errors". The next two commits will move error
response documentation from "Returns" sections to "Errors" sections.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Putting a blank line before section tags and 'Features:' is good,
existing practice. Enforce it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-12-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
By convention, we indent the second and subsequent lines of
descriptions and tagged sections, except for examples.
Turn this into a hard rule, and apply it to examples, too.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
[Straightforward conflicts in qapi/migration.json resolved]
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt claims "A heading line must be the first
line of the documentation comment block" since commit
55ec69f8b1 (docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt: Update to new rST backend
conventions). Not true, we have code to make it work anywhere in a
free-form doc comment: commit dcdc07a97c (qapi: Make section headings
start a new doc comment block).
Make it true, for simplicity's sake.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-10-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The QAPI generator forces you to document your stuff. Except for
command arguments, event data, and members of enum and object types:
these the generator silently "documents" as "Not documented".
We can't require proper documentation there without first fixing all
the offenders. We've always had too many offenders to pull that off.
Right now, we have more than 500. Worse, we seem to fix old ones no
faster than we add new ones: in the past year, we fixed 22 ones, but
added 26 new ones.
To help arrest the backsliding, make missing documentation an error
unless the command, type, or event is in listed in new pragma
documentation-exceptions.
List all the current offenders: 117 commands and types in qapi/, and 9
in qga/.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen demands that the "second and subsequent lines
of sections other than "Example"/"Examples" should be indented".
Commit a937b6aa739q (qapi: Reformat doc comments to conform to current
conventions) missed a few instances, and messed up a few others.
Clean that up.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The QAPI schema doc comment language provides special syntax for
command and event arguments, struct and union members, alternate
branches, enumeration values, and features: descriptions starting with
"@name:".
By convention, we format them like this:
# @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
# sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
# magna aliqua.
Okay for names as short as "name", but we have much longer ones. Their
description gets squeezed against the right margin, like this:
# @dirty-sync-missed-zero-copy: Number of times dirty RAM synchronization could
# not avoid copying dirty pages. This is between
# 0 and @dirty-sync-count * @multifd-channels.
# (since 7.1)
The description text is effectively just 50 characters wide. Easy
enough to read, but can be cumbersome to write.
The awkward squeeze against the right margin makes people go beyond it,
which produces two undesirables: arguments about style, and descriptions
that are unnecessarily hard to read, like this one:
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is
# only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability
# is enabled. (Since 3.0)
We could instead format it like
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
# list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present
# when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
# enabled. (Since 3.0)
or, since the commit before previous, like
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
# list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present
# when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
# enabled. (Since 3.0)
However, I'd rather have
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.
# This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration
# capability is enabled. (Since 3.0)
because this is how rST field and option lists work.
To get this, we need to let the first non-blank line after the
"@name:" line determine expected indentation.
This fills up the indentation pitfall mentioned in
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst. A related pitfall still exists. Update
the text to show it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
[Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
Improve the comments to better describe what they test.
Cover argument description starting on a new line indented. This
style isn't documented in docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst. qapi-gen.py
accepts it, but messes up indentation: it's stripped from the first
line, not subsequent ones. The next commit will fix this.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
The QAPI generator doesn't reject undocumented members and
features (yet). doc-good.json covers this, with clear "is
undocumented" notes to signal intent.
Except for @Variant1 member @var1, where it's "(but no @var: line)".
Less clear. Replace by "@var1 is undocumented".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-10-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
This is quite similar to commit 84ab008687 "qapi: Add feature flags to
struct members", only for enums instead of structs.
Special feature flag 'deprecated' is silently ignored there. This is
okay only because it will be implemented shortly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211025042405.3762351-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Several QGA definitions omit a blank line after the symbol
declaration. This works OK currently, but it's the only place where we
do this. Adjust it for consistency.
Future commits may wind up enforcing this formatting.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210930205716.1148693-5-jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Drop tests that are specifically about simple unions:
* SugaredUnion in doc-good: flat unions are covered by @Object.
* union-branch-case and union-clash-branches: branch naming for flat
unions is enforced for the tag enum instead, which is covered by
enum-member-case and enum-clash-member.
* union-empty: empty flat unions are covered by flat-union-empty.
Rewrite the remainder to use flat unions: args-union, bad-base,
flat-union-base-union, union-branch-invalid-dict, union-unknown.
Except drop union-optional-branch. because converting this one is not
worth the trouble; we don't explicitly check names beginning with '*'
in other places, either.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210917143134.412106-21-armbru@redhat.com>
Break lines between members instead of within members.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210917143134.412106-2-armbru@redhat.com>
The C code generated for 'if' conditionals is incorrectly
parenthesized. For instance,
'if': { 'not': { 'any': [ { 'not': 'TEST_IF_EVT' },
{ 'not': 'TEST_IF_STRUCT' } ] } } }
generates
#if !(!defined(TEST_IF_EVT)) || (!defined(TEST_IF_STRUCT))
This is wrong. Correct would be:
#if !(!defined(TEST_IF_EVT) || !defined(TEST_IF_STRUCT))
Cover the issue in qapi-schema-test.json. This generates bad #if in
tests/test-qapi-events.h and other files.
Add a similar condition to doc-good.json. The generated documentation
is fine.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210831123809.1107782-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Change the 'if' condition strings to be C-agnostic. It will accept
'[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*' identifiers. This allows to express configuration
conditions in other languages (Rust or Python for ex) or other more
suitable forms.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210804083105.97531-11-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased with semantic conflict in redefined-event.json]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
For the sake of completeness, introduce the 'not' condition.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210804083105.97531-10-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Long line broken in tests/qapi-schema/qapi-schema-test.json]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Replace the simple list sugar form with a recursive structure that will
accept other operators in the following commits (all, any or not).
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210804083105.97531-7-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Accidental code motion undone. Degenerate :forms: comment dropped.
Helper _check_if() moved. Error messages tweaked. ui.json updated.
Accidental changes to qapi-schema-test.json dropped.]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Event names should be ALL_CAPS with words separated by underscore.
Enforce this. The only offenders are in tests/. Fix them. Existing
test event-case covers the new error.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210323094025.3569441-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
doc-good.json currently uses the old *strong* and _emphasis_ markup.
As part of the conversion to rST this needs to switch to **strong**
and *emphasis*, because rST uses underscores as part of its markup
of hyperlinks and will otherwise warn about the syntax error.
In commit a660eed482 we fixed up the in-tree uses of the
old markup:
1) _this_ was replaced with *this*
2) the only in-tree use of *this* was left alone (turning
a 'strong' into an 'emphasis')
(and so currently in-tree nothing is using either new-style
**strong** or old-style _emphasis_).
Update doc-good.json in a similar way:
1) replace _this_ with *this*
2) remove the usage of old-style *this*
(This slightly reduces the coverage for the old Texinfo generator,
which is about to go away, but is fine for the new rST generator
because that does not need to handle strong/emphasis itself because
it is simply passing the entire text as raw rST to Sphinx.)
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200925162316.21205-13-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
doc-good.json tests doc comment parser corner cases. We're about to
largely replace it by a Sphinx extension, which will have different
corner cases. Tweak the test so it passes both with the old parser
and the Sphinx extension, by making it match the more restrictive
rST syntax:
* in a single list the bullet types must all match
* lists must have leading and following blank lines
* the rules on when and where indentation matters differ
* the '|' example syntax is going to go away entirely, so stop
testing it
This will avoid the tests spuriously breaking when we tighten up the
parser code in the following commits.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200925162316.21205-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The various schemas included in QEMU use a JSON-based format which
is, however, strictly speaking not valid JSON.
As a consequence, when vim tries to apply syntax highlight rules
for JSON (as guessed from the file name), the result is an unreadable
mess which mostly consist of red markers pointing out supposed errors
in, well, pretty much everything.
Using Python syntax highlighting produces much better results, and
in fact these files already start with specially-formatted comments
that instruct Emacs to process them as if they were Python files.
This commit adds the equivalent special comments for vim.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200729185024.121766-1-abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
In v4.1.0, we added feature flags just to struct types (commit
6a8c0b5102^..f3ed93d545), to satisfy an immediate need (commit
c9d4070991 "file-posix: Add dynamic-auto-read-only QAPI feature"). In
v4.2.0, we added them to commands (commit 23394b4c39 "qapi: Add
feature flags to commands") to satisfy another immediate need (commit
d76744e65e "qapi: Allow introspecting fix for savevm's cooperation
with blockdev").
Add them to the remaining definitions: enumeration types, union types,
alternate types, and events.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200317115459.31821-13-armbru@redhat.com>
Generate a reference "Arguments: the members of ...", just like we do
for commands since commit c2dd311cb7 "qapi2texi: Implement boxed
argument documentation".
No change to generated QMP documentation; we don't yet use boxed
events outside tests/.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191024110237.30963-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Add negative tests doc-bad-boxed-command-arg and doc-bad-event-arg to
cover boxed and no arguments. They demonstrate insufficient doc
comment checking.
Update positive test doc-good to cover boxed event arguments. It
demonstrates the generated doc comment misses arguments.
These bugs will be fixed later in this series.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191024110237.30963-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Commit 8aa3a33e44 "tests/qapi-schema: Test for good feature lists in
structs" neglected to cover documentation comments, and the previous
commit followed its example. Make up for them.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20191018081454.21369-5-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Use a common function to generate the "If:..." line.
While at it, get rid of the existing \n\n (no idea why it was
there). Use a line-break in member description, this seems to look
slightly better in the plaintext version.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181213123724.4866-19-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
The documentation is generated only once, and doesn't know C
pre-conditions. Add 'If:' sections for top-level entities.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180703155648.11933-13-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
A negative test case crept into doc-good.json: invalid use of section
markup we currently fail to reject. Move this into its own
doc-bad-section.json.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20171002141341.24616-6-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
We have a number of negative tests, but we don't have systematic
positive coverage. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1490015515-25851-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
