Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]> writes:
> Introduce a minimal struct that pairs a QAPI type's internal name with
> its "masked" introspection name. Generated constants of this type will
> let QOM property registration carry a reliable reference to the QAPI
> schema and possibly other associated data.
>
> The fields are populated in following commits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>
> ---
> include/qapi/qapi-type-info.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/qapi/qapi-type-info.h b/include/qapi/qapi-type-info.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..97eb1d7bf490
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/qapi/qapi-type-info.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> +/*
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> + */
> +
> +#ifndef QAPI_TYPE_INFO_H
> +#define QAPI_TYPE_INFO_H
> +
> +#include "qapi/util.h"
> +
> +/**
> + * QAPITypeInfo - QAPI type metadata
> + *
> + * @name: QAPI type name (e.g. "str", "OnOffAuto", "int32List").
> + * QOM uses this as the property type string.
> + * @masked_name: Name of the type in the QAPI introspection schema, assigned
> by
> + * scripts/qapi code generator (e.g. "368").
Suggest 'Name of the type in output of query-qmp-schema (e.g. "368")'.
> + * NULL for implicit types.
Can this happen? I can't see any QAPITypeInfo with null @masked_name at
the end of the series.
> + * @lookup: QEnumLookup for this type, or NULL for non-enum types.
Maybe ', null unless it's an enum type'.
> + * visit_type_enum(), qapi_enum_parse(), and qapi_enum_lookup()
> + * all rely on it.
"It" is ambiguous: is it the @lookup pointer or the struct it points to?
The latter is correct.
Is the sentence useful?
> + * @list: The list-type counterpart, or NULL if none exists.
> + * str_type_info.list points to strList_type_info. qdev array
> + * properties follow this to find the list type for their element.
> + */
> +typedef struct QAPITypeInfo {
> + const char *name;
> + const char *masked_name;
> + const QEnumLookup *lookup;
> + const struct QAPITypeInfo *list;
> +} QAPITypeInfo;
> +
> +#endif /* QAPI_TYPE_INFO_H */
