Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-02-28' into staging

QAPI patches for 2017-02-28

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-02-28: (27 commits)
  qapi: Improve qobject visitor documentation
  qapi: Fix object input visit beyond end of list
  tests: Cover input visit beyond end of list
  qapi: Make input visitors detect unvisited list tails
  test-qobject-input-visitor: Cover missing nested struct member
  tests: Cover partial input visit of list
  test-string-input-visitor: Improve list coverage
  test-string-input-visitor: Tear down existing test automatically
  tests-qobject-input-strict: Merge into test-qobject-input-visitor
  qapi: Drop unused non-strict qobject input visitor
  test-qobject-input-visitor: Use strict visitor
  qom: Make object_property_set_qobject()'s input visitor strict
  qapi: Make string input and opts visitor require non-null input
  qapi: Drop string input visitor method optional()
  qapi: Improve qobject input visitor error reporting
  qapi: Make QObject input visitor set *list reliably
  qapi: Clean up after commit 3d344c2
  qapi: Improve a QObject input visitor error message
  qmp: Eliminate silly QERR_QMP_* macros
  qmp: Drop duplicated QMP command object checks
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h b/include/qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h
index 8241877bd7..9b990c318e 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h
@@ -19,11 +19,38 @@
 
 typedef struct QObjectOutputVisitor QObjectOutputVisitor;
 
-/*
- * Create a new QObject output visitor.
+/**
+ * Create a QObject output visitor for @obj
+ *
+ * A QObject output visitor visit builds a QObject from QAPI Object.
+ * This simultaneously walks the QAPI object and the QObject being
+ * built.  The latter walk starts at @obj.
+ *
+ * visit_type_FOO() creates a QObject for QAPI type FOO.  It creates a
+ * QDict for struct/union types, a QList for list types, QString for
+ * type 'str' and enumeration types, QInt for integer types, QFloat
+ * for type 'number', QBool for type 'bool'.  For type 'any', it
+ * increments the QObject's reference count.  For QAPI alternate
+ * types, it creates the QObject for the member that is in use.
+ *
+ * visit_start_struct() ... visit_end_struct() visits a QAPI
+ * struct/union and creates a QDict.  Visits in between visit the
+ * members.  visit_optional() is true when the struct/union has this
+ * member.  visit_check_struct() does nothing.
+ *
+ * visit_start_list() ... visit_end_list() visits a QAPI list and
+ * creates a QList.  Visits in between visit list members, one after
+ * the other.  visit_next_list() returns NULL when all QAPI list
+ * members have been visited.  visit_check_list() does nothing.
+ *
+ * visit_start_alternate() ... visit_end_alternate() visits a QAPI
+ * alternate.  The visit in between creates the QObject for the
+ * alternate member that is in use.
+ *
+ * Errors are not expected to happen.
  *
- * If everything else succeeds, pass @result to visit_complete() to
- * collect the result of the visit.
+ * The caller is responsible for freeing the visitor with
+ * visit_free().
  */
 Visitor *qobject_output_visitor_new(QObject **result);