qapi: Tweak error messages for missing / conflicting meta-type

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210831123809.1107782-12-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/expr.py b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
index 9e2aa1d..ae4437b 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/expr.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
@@ -630,20 +630,15 @@ def check_exprs(exprs: List[_JSONObject]) -> List[_JSONObject]:
         if 'include' in expr:
             continue
 
-        if 'enum' in expr:
-            meta = 'enum'
-        elif 'union' in expr:
-            meta = 'union'
-        elif 'alternate' in expr:
-            meta = 'alternate'
-        elif 'struct' in expr:
-            meta = 'struct'
-        elif 'command' in expr:
-            meta = 'command'
-        elif 'event' in expr:
-            meta = 'event'
-        else:
-            raise QAPISemError(info, "expression is missing metatype")
+        metas = expr.keys() & {'enum', 'struct', 'union', 'alternate',
+                               'command', 'event'}
+        if len(metas) != 1:
+            raise QAPISemError(
+                info,
+                "expression must have exactly one key"
+                " 'enum', 'struct', 'union', 'alternate',"
+                " 'command', 'event'")
+        meta = metas.pop()
 
         check_name_is_str(expr[meta], info, "'%s'" % meta)
         name = cast(str, expr[meta])