qmp: Support explicit null during visits

Implement the new type_null() callback for the qmp input and
output visitors. While we don't yet have a use for this in QAPI
input (the generator will need some tweaks first), some
potential usages have already been discussed on the list.
Meanwhile, the output visitor could already output explicit null
via type_any, but this gives us finer control.

At any rate, it's easy to test that we can round-trip an explicit
null through manual use of visit_type_null() wrapped by a virtual
visit_start_struct() walk, even if we can't do the visit in a
QAPI type.  Repurpose the test_visitor_out_empty test,
particularly since a future patch will tighten semantics to
forbid use of qmp_output_get_qobject() without at least one
intervening visit_type_*.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-16-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c b/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c
index c039806..10e00ec 100644
--- a/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c
+++ b/tests/test-qmp-input-visitor.c
@@ -279,6 +279,33 @@ static void test_visitor_in_any(TestInputVisitorData *data,
     qobject_decref(res);
 }
 
+static void test_visitor_in_null(TestInputVisitorData *data,
+                                 const void *unused)
+{
+    Visitor *v;
+    Error *err = NULL;
+    char *tmp;
+
+    /*
+     * FIXME: Since QAPI doesn't know the 'null' type yet, we can't
+     * test visit_type_null() by reading into a QAPI struct then
+     * checking that it was populated correctly.  The best we can do
+     * for now is ensure that we consumed null from the input, proven
+     * by the fact that we can't re-read the key; and that we detect
+     * when input is not null.
+     */
+
+    v = visitor_input_test_init(data, "{ 'a': null, 'b': '' }");
+    visit_start_struct(v, NULL, NULL, 0, &error_abort);
+    visit_type_null(v, "a", &error_abort);
+    visit_type_str(v, "a", &tmp, &err);
+    g_assert(!tmp);
+    error_free_or_abort(&err);
+    visit_type_null(v, "b", &err);
+    error_free_or_abort(&err);
+    visit_end_struct(v, &error_abort);
+}
+
 static void test_visitor_in_union_flat(TestInputVisitorData *data,
                                        const void *unused)
 {
@@ -829,6 +856,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                            &in_visitor_data, test_visitor_in_list);
     input_visitor_test_add("/visitor/input/any",
                            &in_visitor_data, test_visitor_in_any);
+    input_visitor_test_add("/visitor/input/null",
+                           &in_visitor_data, test_visitor_in_null);
     input_visitor_test_add("/visitor/input/union-flat",
                            &in_visitor_data, test_visitor_in_union_flat);
     input_visitor_test_add("/visitor/input/alternate",