qom: Use command line syntax for default values in help

object_property_help() uses the conventional command line syntax instead
of the JSON syntax. In particular,
- Key-value pairs are written in the command line syntax.
- bool description passed to the function says on/off instead of
  true/false.

However, there is one exception: default values are formatted into JSON.
While the command line and JSON syntaxes are consistent in many cases,
there are two types where they disagree:

string: The command line syntax omits quotes while JSON requires them.

bool: JSON only accepts true/false for bool but the command line syntax
      accepts on/off too, and on/off are also more popular than
      true/false. For example, the docs directory has 2045 "on"
      occurances while it has only 194 "true" occurances.
      on/off are also accepted by OnOffAuto so users do not have to
      remember the type is bool or OnOffAuto to use the values.

Omit quotes for strings and use on/off for bools when formatting
default values for better consistency.

Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250207-bool-v1-1-5749d5d6df24@daynix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/qom/object_interfaces.c b/qom/object_interfaces.c
index f35d331..1ffea1a 100644
--- a/qom/object_interfaces.c
+++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-visit-qom.h"
 #include "qobject/qobject.h"
+#include "qobject/qbool.h"
 #include "qobject/qdict.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
 #include "qobject/qjson.h"
+#include "qobject/qstring.h"
 #include "qapi/qobject-input-visitor.h"
 #include "qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h"
 #include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
@@ -177,9 +179,25 @@ char *object_property_help(const char *name, const char *type,
         g_string_append(str, description);
     }
     if (defval) {
-        g_autofree char *def_json = g_string_free(qobject_to_json(defval),
-                                                  false);
-        g_string_append_printf(str, " (default: %s)", def_json);
+        g_autofree char *def_json = NULL;
+        const char *def;
+
+        switch (qobject_type(defval)) {
+        case QTYPE_QSTRING:
+            def = qstring_get_str(qobject_to(QString, defval));
+            break;
+
+        case QTYPE_QBOOL:
+            def = qbool_get_bool(qobject_to(QBool, defval)) ? "on" : "off";
+            break;
+
+        default:
+            def_json = g_string_free(qobject_to_json(defval), false);
+            def = def_json;
+            break;
+        }
+
+        g_string_append_printf(str, " (default: %s)", def);
     }
 
     return g_string_free(str, false);