John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 9:01 AM Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes: >> >> > Declare, but don't initialize the "members" field with type >> > List[QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember]. >> > >> > This simplifies the typing from what would otherwise be >> > Optional[List[T]] to merely List[T]. This removes the need to add >> > assertions to several callsites that this value is not None - which it >> > never will be after the delayed initialization in check() anyway. >> > >> > The type declaration without initialization trick will cause accidental >> > uses of this field prior to full initialization to raise an >> > AttributeError. >> > >> > (Note that it is valid to have an empty members list, see the internal >> > q_empty object as an example. For this reason, we cannot use the empty >> > list as a replacement test for full initialization and instead rely on >> > the _checked/_check_complete fields.) >> > >> > Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> >> > --- >> > scripts/qapi/schema.py | 12 +++++++----- >> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py >> > index 50ebc4f12de..fb30314741a 100644 >> > --- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py >> > +++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py >> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ >> > from collections import OrderedDict >> > import os >> > import re >> > -from typing import List, Optional >> > +from typing import List, Optional, cast >> > >> > from .common import ( >> > POINTER_SUFFIX, >> > @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ def __init__(self, name, info, doc, ifcond, features, >> > self.base = None >> > self.local_members = local_members >> > self.variants = variants >> > - self.members = None >> > + self.members: List[QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember] >> > self._check_complete = False >> > >> > def check(self, schema): >> > @@ -482,7 +482,11 @@ def check(self, schema): >> > for m in self.local_members: >> > m.check(schema) >> > m.check_clash(self.info, seen) >> > - members = seen.values() >> > + >> > + # check_clash works in terms of the supertype, but local_members >> > + # is asserted to be List[QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember]. >> >> Do you mean "but self.members is declared as >> List[QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember]"? > > Argh. I meant asserted in the linguistic sense. mypy asserts it to be; not > a runtime assertion. > > I do this a lot, apparently.
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