The documentation claims that alternates are useful for
allowing two or more types, although nothing enforces this.
Meanwhile, it is silent on whether empty unions are allowed.
In practice, the generated code will compile, in part because
we have a 'void *data' branch; but attempting to visit such a
type will cause an abort().  While there's no technical reason
that a degenerate union could not be made to work, it's harder
to justify the time spent in chasing known (the current
abort() during visit) and unknown corner cases, than it would
be to just outlaw them.  A future patch will probably take the
approach of forbidding them; in the meantime, we can at least
add testsuite coverage to make it obvious where things stand.

In addition to adding tests to expose the problems, we also
need to adjust existing tests that are meant to test something
else, but which could fail for the wrong reason if we reject
degenerate alternates/unions.

Note that empty structs are explicitly supported (for example,
right now they are the only way to specify that one branch of a
flat union adds no additional members), and empty enums are
covered by the testsuite as working (even if they do not seem
to have much use).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

---
v7: minor commit message tweak
v6: commit message improved, rebase to earlier added tests
---
 tests/Makefile                           | 3 +++
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.err    | 0
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.exit   | 1 +
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.json   | 2 ++
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.out    | 4 ++++
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-nested.json  | 2 +-
 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-unknown.json | 2 +-
 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.err   | 0
 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.exit  | 1 +
 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.json  | 4 ++++
 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.out   | 7 +++++++
 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.err        | 0
 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.exit       | 1 +
 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.json       | 2 ++
 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.out        | 3 +++
 15 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.err
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.exit
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.json
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.out
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.err
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.exit
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.json
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.out
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.err
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.exit
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.json
 create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.out

diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index 2fdf88a..ffe40e1 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ qapi-schema += alternate-base.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-clash.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-conflict-dict.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-conflict-string.json
+qapi-schema += alternate-empty.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-good.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-nested.json
 qapi-schema += alternate-unknown.json
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ qapi-schema += flat-union-clash-branch.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-clash-member.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-clash-type.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-cycle.json
+qapi-schema += flat-union-empty.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-inline.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-int-branch.json
 qapi-schema += flat-union-invalid-branch-key.json
@@ -336,6 +338,7 @@ qapi-schema += union-base-no-discriminator.json
 qapi-schema += union-clash-branches.json
 qapi-schema += union-clash-data.json
 qapi-schema += union-clash-type.json
+qapi-schema += union-empty.json
 qapi-schema += union-invalid-base.json
 qapi-schema += union-max.json
 qapi-schema += union-optional-branch.json
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.err 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.err
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.exit 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.exit
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..573541a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.exit
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.json 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db3820f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# FIXME - alternates should list at least two types to be useful
+{ 'alternate': 'Alt', 'data': { 'i': 'int' } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.out 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f153b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-empty.out
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+object :empty
+alternate Alt
+    case i: int
+enum AltKind ['i']
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-nested.json 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-nested.json
index c4233b9..8e22186 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-nested.json
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-nested.json
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 { 'alternate': 'Alt1',
   'data': { 'name': 'str', 'value': 'int' } }
 { 'alternate': 'Alt2',
-  'data': { 'nested': 'Alt1' } }
+  'data': { 'nested': 'Alt1', 'b': 'bool' } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-unknown.json 
b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-unknown.json
index ad5c103..08c80dc 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-unknown.json
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/alternate-unknown.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # we reject an alternate with unknown type in branch
 { 'alternate': 'Alt',
-  'data': { 'unknown': 'MissingType' } }
+  'data': { 'unknown': 'MissingType', 'i': 'int' } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.err 
b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.err
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.exit 
b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.exit
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..573541a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.exit
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.json 
b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67dd297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# FIXME - flat unions should not be empty
+{ 'enum': 'Empty', 'data': [ ] }
+{ 'struct': 'Base', 'data': { 'type': 'Empty' } }
+{ 'union': 'Union', 'base': 'Base', 'discriminator': 'type', 'data': { } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.out 
b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e0665a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/flat-union-empty.out
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+object :empty
+object Base
+    member type: Empty optional=False
+enum Empty []
+object Union
+    base Base
+    tag type
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.err 
b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.err
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.exit 
b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.exit
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..573541a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.exit
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.json 
b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1785007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# FIXME - unions should not be empty
+{ 'union': 'Union', 'data': { } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.out 
b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b5a7bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/union-empty.out
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+object :empty
+object Union
+enum UnionKind []
-- 
2.4.3


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