Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes:
> We want to eventually allow qapi defaults, by making:
> 'data':{'*flag':'bool'}
> as shorthand for something like:
> 'data':{'flag':{'type':'bool', 'optional':true}}
> so that the default can be specified:
> 'data':{'flag':{'type':'bool', 'optional':true, 'default':true}}
>
> This series does not quite get us there, but it DOES do a number
> of other things. It gets rid of the three uses of nested inline
> structs, changes anonymous unions to use a specific 'alternate'
> metatype rather than abusing 'union', changes the ambiguous 'type'
> to the obvious 'struct', and fixes lots of other parser bugs found
> while designing the testsuite. The testsuite changes make the
> bulk of this series, with a repeating pattern of writing tests
> that expose weaknesses in the old parser, then beefing up the
> generator to catch the problem during the initial parse rather
> than choking with an obscure python message or even causing a C
> compilation failure.
Looks done to me. I'll take it through my tree, as discussed in review
of v6. I can fix up the nits I picked in PATCH 40.
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