rust: qom: add casting functionality

Add traits that let client cast typecast safely between object types.
In particular, an upcast is compile-time guaranteed to succeed, and a
YOLO C-style downcast must be marked as unsafe.

The traits are based on an IsA<> trait that declares what
is a subclass of what, which is an idea taken from glib-rs
(https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.IsA.html).
The four primitives are also taken from there
(https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.Cast.html).  However,
the implementation of casting itself is a bit different and uses the
Deref trait.

This removes some pointer arithmetic from the pl011 device; it is also a
prerequisite for the definition of methods, so that they can be invoked
on all subclass structs.  This will use the IsA<> trait to detect the
structs that support the methods.

glib also has a "monadic" casting trait which could be implemented on
Option (as in https://docs.rs/glib/latest/glib/object/trait.CastNone.html)
and perhaps even Result.  For now I'm leaving it out, as the patch is
already big enough and the benefit seems debatable.

Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/src/prelude.rs b/rust/qemu-api/src/prelude.rs
index 5cc41f0..a0a71fc 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/src/prelude.rs
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/src/prelude.rs
@@ -7,4 +7,11 @@ pub use crate::bitops::IntegerExt;
 pub use crate::cell::BqlCell;
 pub use crate::cell::BqlRefCell;
 
+pub use crate::qom::IsA;
+pub use crate::qom::Object;
+pub use crate::qom::ObjectCast;
+pub use crate::qom::ObjectCastMut;
+pub use crate::qom::ObjectDeref;
 pub use crate::qom::ObjectType;
+
+pub use crate::qom_isa;