Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-05-31' into staging

QAPI patches for 2017-05-31

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* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-qapi-2017-05-31:
  qapi: Reject alternates that can't work with keyval_parse()
  tests/qapi-schema: Avoid 'str' in alternate test cases
  qapi: Document visit_type_any() issues with keyval input
  qobject-input-visitor: Reject non-finite numbers with keyval

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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qapi/visitor.h b/include/qapi/visitor.h
index b0e233df76..4721c39ae3 100644
--- a/include/qapi/visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/visitor.h
@@ -607,6 +607,10 @@ void visit_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
  * @obj must be non-NULL.  Input visitors set *@obj to the value;
  * other visitors will leave *@obj unchanged.  *@obj must be non-NULL
  * for output visitors.
+ *
+ * Note that some kinds of input can't express arbitrary QObject.
+ * E.g. the visitor returned by qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval()
+ * can't create numbers or booleans, only strings.
  */
 void visit_type_any(Visitor *v, const char *name, QObject **obj, Error **errp);