In the QMP input visitor, visiting a list traverses two objects:
the QAPI GenericList of the caller (which gets advanced in
visit_next_list() regardless of this patch), and the QList input
that we are converting to QAPI. For consistency with QDict
visits, we want to consume elements from the input QList during
the visit_type_FOO() for the list element; that is, we want ALL
the code for consuming an input to live in qmp_input_get_object(),
rather than having it split according to whether we are visiting
a dict or a list. Making qmp_input_get_object() the common point
of consumption will make it easier for a later patch to refactor
visit_start_list() to cover the GenericList * head of a QAPI list,
and in turn will get rid of the 'first' flag (which lived in
qmp_input_next_list() pre-patch, and is hoisted to StackObject
by this patch).
This patch is therefore altering the post-condition use of 'entry',
while keeping what gets visited unchanged, from:
start_list next_list type_ELT ... next_list type_ELT next_list end_list
visits 1st elt last elt
entry NULL 1st elt 1st elt last elt last elt NULL gone
where type_ELT() returns (entry ? entry : 1st elt) and next_list() steps
entry
to this usage:
start_list next_list type_ELT ... next_list type_ELT next_list end_list
visits 1st elt last elt
entry 1st elt 1nd elt 2nd elt last elt NULL NULL gone
where type_ELT() steps entry and returns the old entry, and next_list()
leaves entry alone.
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