Special-casing 'discriminator == {}' for handling anonymous unions
is getting awkward; since this particular type is not always a
dictionary on the wire, it is easier to treat it as a completely
different class of type, "alternate", so that if a type is listed
in the union_types array, we know it is not an anonymous union.
This patch just further segregates union handling, to make sure that
anonymous unions are not stored in union_types, and splitting up
check_union() into separate functions. A future patch will change
the qapi grammar, and having the segregation already in place will
make it easier to deal with the distinct meta-type.
Backports commit 811d04fd0cff1229480d3f5b2e349f646ab6e3c1 from qemu
None of the existing QMP or QGA interfaces uses a union with a
base type but no discriminator; it is easier to avoid this in the
generator to save room for other future extensions more likely to
be useful. An earlier commit added a union-base-no-discriminator
test to ensure that we eventually give a decent error message;
likewise, removing UserDefUnion outright is okay, because we moved
all the tests we wish to keep into the tests of the simple union
UserDefNativeListUnion in the previous commit. Now is the time to
actually forbid simple union with base, and remove the last
vestiges from the testsuite.
Backports commit a8d4a2e4d7e1a0207699de47142c9bdbf2cc8675 from qemu
There was some redundancy between builtin_types[] and
builtin_type_qtypes{}. Merge them into one.
Backports commit b52c4b9cf0bbafdf8cede4ea1f62770d86815718 from qemu
Defaulting a parameter to True, then having all callers omit or
pass an explicit True for that parameter, is pointless. Looks
like it has been dead since introduction in commit 06d64c6, more
than 4 years ago.
Backports commit 6540e9f35bfeea2baf4509745516172070dca412 from qemu
No backend was setting an error when ending the visit of a list or
implicit struct, or when moving to the next list node. Make the
callers a bit easier to follow by making this a part of the contract,
and removing the errp argument - callers can then unconditionally end
an object as part of cleanup without having to think about whether a
second error is dominated by a first, because there is no second
error.
A later patch will then tackle the larger task of splitting
visit_end_struct(), which can indeed set an error.
Backports commit 08f9541dec51700abef0c37994213164ca4e4fc9 from qemu
