We use section "Returns" for documenting both success and error
response of commands.
I intend to generate better command success response documentation.
Easier when "Returns" documents just he success response.
Create new section tag "Errors". The next two commits will move error
response documentation from "Returns" sections to "Errors" sections.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240227113921.236097-4-armbru@redhat.com>
QAPIDoc stores a reference to QAPIParser just to pass it to
QAPIParseError. The resulting error position depends on the state of
the parser. It happens to be the current comment line. Servicable,
but action at a distance.
The commit before previous moved most uses of QAPIParseError from
QAPIDoc to QAPIParser. There are just three left. Convert them to
QAPISemError. This involves passing info to a few methods. Then drop
the reference to QAPIParser.
The three errors lose the column number. Not really interesting here:
it's the comment line's indentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-17-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The parser recognizes only the first "Features:" line. Any subsequent
ones are treated as ordinary text, as visible in test case
doc-duplicate-features. Recognize "Features:" lines anywhere. A
second one is an error.
A 'Features:' line without any features is useless, but not an error.
Make it an error. This makes detecting a second "Features:" line
easier.
qapi/run-state.json actually has an instance of this since commit
fe17522d85 (qapi: Remove deprecated 'singlestep' member of
StatusInfo). Clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-16-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
QAPISchemaParser is a conventional recursive descent parser. Except
QAPISchemaParser.get_doc() delegates most of the doc comment parsing
work to a state machine in QAPIDoc. The state machine doesn't get
tokens like a recursive descent parser, it is fed tokens.
I find this state machine rather opaque and hard to maintain.
Replace it by a conventional parser, all in QAPISchemaParser. Less
code, and (at least in my opinion) easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-15-armbru@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The parser mostly doesn't create adjacent untagged sections, and
merging the ones it does create is hardly worth the bother. I'm doing
it to avoid behavioral change in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
By convention, we indent the second and subsequent lines of
descriptions and tagged sections, except for examples.
Turn this into a hard rule, and apply it to examples, too.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
[Straightforward conflicts in qapi/migration.json resolved]
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt claims "A heading line must be the first
line of the documentation comment block" since commit
55ec69f8b1 (docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt: Update to new rST backend
conventions). Not true, we have code to make it work anywhere in a
free-form doc comment: commit dcdc07a97c (qapi: Make section headings
start a new doc comment block).
Make it true, for simplicity's sake.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-10-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since the previous commit, QAPIDoc.Section.name is either
None (untagged section) or the section's tag string ('Returns',
'@name', ...). Rename it to .tag.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-9-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Improve the message for an empty tagged section from
empty doc section 'Note'
to
text required after 'Note:'
and the message for an empty argument or feature description from
empty doc section 'foo'
to
text required after '@foo:'
Improve the error position to refer to the beginning of the empty
section instead of its end.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-8-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When something other than a command has a "Returns" section, the error
message points to the beginning of the definition comment. Point to
the "Returns" section instead.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
When documented arguments don't exist, the error message points to the
beginning of the definition comment. Point to the first bogus
argument description instead.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240216145841.2099240-6-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The QAPI generator forces you to document your stuff. Except for
command arguments, event data, and members of enum and object types:
these the generator silently "documents" as "Not documented".
We can't require proper documentation there without first fixing all
the offenders. We've always had too many offenders to pull that off.
Right now, we have more than 500. Worse, we seem to fix old ones no
faster than we add new ones: in the past year, we fixed 22 ones, but
added 26 new ones.
To help arrest the backsliding, make missing documentation an error
unless the command, type, or event is in listed in new pragma
documentation-exceptions.
List all the current offenders: 117 commands and types in qapi/, and 9
in qga/.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-7-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Conversion of docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST left several
dangling references behind. Fix them to point to
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst.
Fixes: f7aa076dbd (docs: convert qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The error message is bad when the section is untagged. For instance,
test case doc-interleaved-section produces "'@foobar:' can't follow
'Note' section", which is okay, but if we drop the "Note:" tag, we get
"'@foobar:' can't follow 'None' section, which is bad.
Change the error message to "description of '@foobar:' follows a
section".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230510141637.3685080-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
[Conflict with commit 3e32dca3f0 resolved]
The QAPI schema doc comment language provides special syntax for
command and event arguments, struct and union members, alternate
branches, enumeration values, and features: descriptions starting with
"@name:".
By convention, we format them like this:
# @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
# sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
# magna aliqua.
Okay for names as short as "name", but we have much longer ones. Their
description gets squeezed against the right margin, like this:
# @dirty-sync-missed-zero-copy: Number of times dirty RAM synchronization could
# not avoid copying dirty pages. This is between
# 0 and @dirty-sync-count * @multifd-channels.
# (since 7.1)
The description text is effectively just 50 characters wide. Easy
enough to read, but can be cumbersome to write.
The awkward squeeze against the right margin makes people go beyond it,
which produces two undesirables: arguments about style, and descriptions
that are unnecessarily hard to read, like this one:
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is
# only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability
# is enabled. (Since 3.0)
We could instead format it like
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
# list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present
# when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
# enabled. (Since 3.0)
or, since the commit before previous, like
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
# list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present
# when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
# enabled. (Since 3.0)
However, I'd rather have
# @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.
# This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration
# capability is enabled. (Since 3.0)
because this is how rST field and option lists work.
To get this, we need to let the first non-blank line after the
"@name:" line determine expected indentation.
This fills up the indentation pitfall mentioned in
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst. A related pitfall still exists. Update
the text to show it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
[Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
To recognize a line starting with a section symbol and or tag, we
first split it at the first space, then examine the part left of the
space. We can just as well examine the unsplit line, so do that.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-13-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
[Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
John SnowandMarkus Armbruster
