Consider the following QAPI schema fragment, for the purpose of command line parsing with OptsVisitor:
{ 'type': 'UInt16', 'data': { 'u16': 'uint16' }} { 'union': 'NumaOptions', 'data': { 'node': 'NumaNodeOptions', 'mem' : 'NumaMemOptions' }} { 'type': 'NumaNodeOptions', 'data': { '*nodeid': 'int', '*cpus' : ['UInt16'] }} { 'type': 'NumaMemOptions', 'data': { '*nodeid': 'int', '*size' : 'size' }} OptsVisitor already accepts the following command line with the above: -numa node,nodeid=3,cpus=0,cpus=1,cpus=2,cpus=6,cpus=7,cpus=8 Paolo suggested in <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/222589/focus=222732> that OptsVisitor should allow the following shortcut: -numa node,nodeid=3,cpus=0-2,cpus=6-8 and that the code processing the "cpus" list should encounter all six elements (0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8) individually. The series tries to implement this. Both signed and unsigned values and intervals should be supported: * 0 (zero) * 1-5 (one to five) * 4-4 (four to four, range with one element) * -2 (minus two) * -5-8 (minus two to plus eight) * -9--6 (minus nine to minus six) As documented in commit eb7ee2cb, for parsing repeated options in general, the list element type must be a struct with one mandatory scalar field. For interval flattening, this underlying scalar type must be an integer type. The restrictions imposed by its signedness and size (in the above example, 'uint16') should be enforced entry-wise as usual. That is, examining the 'uint16' example above with -numa node,nodeid=3,cpus=65534-65537 this is equivalent to -numa node,nodeid=3,cpus=65534,cpus=65535,cpus=65536,cpus=65537 and visit_type_uint16() [qapi/qapi-visit-core.c] will catch the first element (= 65536) that has been parsed by opts_type_int() but cannot be represented as 'uint16'. I wrote this last night -- it is untested. I'm asking for help with a gtester-based unit test. I'd appreciate if someone could whip up the scaffolding (I don't even remember how to build & invoke the testers!) and I'd fill in the test cases. Thanks. Laszlo Ersek (6): OptsVisitor: introduce basic list modes OptsVisitor: introduce list modes for interval flattening OptsVisitor: opts_type_int(): recognize intervals when LM_IN_PROGRESS OptsVisitor: rebase opts_type_uint64() to parse_uint_full() OptsVisitor: opts_type_uint64(): recognize intervals when LM_IN_PROGRESS OptsVisitor: don't try to flatten overlong integer ranges include/qapi/opts-visitor.h | 6 ++ qapi/opts-visitor.c | 159 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)