Based-on: <20200227144531.24309-1-armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> This series extends QMP introspection to cover deprecation. Additionally, new option -compat lets you configure what to do when deprecated interfaces get used. This is intended for testing users of the management interfaces. It is experimental. -compat deprecated-input=<in-policy> configures what to do when deprecated input is received. Available policies: * accept: Accept deprecated commands and arguments (default) * reject: Reject them * crash: Crash -compat deprecated-output=<out-policy> configures what to do when deprecated output is sent. Available output policies: * accept: Emit deprecated command results and events (default) * hide: Suppress them For now, -compat covers only deprecated syntactic aspects of QMP. We may want to extend it to cover semantic aspects, CLI, and experimental features. PATCH 01-04: Documentation fixes PATCH 05-10: Test improvements PATCH 11-24: Add feature flags to remaining user-defined types and to struct members PATCH 25-26: New special feature 'deprecated', visible in introspection PATCH 27-30: New -compat to set policy for handling stuff marked with feature 'deprecated' Comparison to RFC (24 Oct 2019): * Cover arguments and results in addition to commands and events * Half-baked "[RFC PATCH 18/19] qapi: Include a warning in the response to a deprecated command" dropped See also last item of Subject: Minutes of KVM Forum BoF on deprecating stuff Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:03:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87mur0ls8o.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg05828.html Markus Armbruster (30): qemu-doc: Belatedly document QMP command arg & result deprecation qapi: Belatedly update doc comment for @wait deprecation docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Clarify allow-oob introspection docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Document 'features' introspection tests/test-qmp-cmds: Factor out qmp_dispatch() test helpers tests/test-qmp-cmds: Check responses more thoroughly tests/test-qmp-cmds: Simplify test data setup tests/test-qmp-event: Simplify test data setup tests/test-qmp-event: Use qobject_is_equal() tests/test-qmp-event: Check event is actually emitted qapi/schema: Clean up around QAPISchemaEntity.connect_doc() qapi: Add feature flags to remaining definitions qapi: Consistently put @features parameter right after @ifcond qapi/introspect: Rename *qlit* to reduce confusion qapi/introspect: Factor out _make_tree() qapi/schema: Change _make_features() to a take feature list qapi/schema: Reorder classes so related ones are together qapi/schema: Rename QAPISchemaObjectType{Variant,Variants} qapi/schema: Call QAPIDoc.connect_member() in just one place qapi: Add feature flags to struct members qapi: Inline do_qmp_dispatch() into qmp_dispatch() qapi: Simplify how qmp_dispatch() deals with QCO_NO_SUCCESS_RESP qapi: Simplify how qmp_dispatch() gets the request ID qapi: Replace qmp_dispatch()'s TODO comment by an explanation qapi: New special feature flag "deprecated" qapi: Mark deprecated QMP parts with feature 'deprecated' qemu-options: New -compat to set policy for deprecated interfaces qapi: Implement -compat deprecated-output=hide qapi: Implement -compat deprecated-input=reject qapi: New -compat deprecated-input=crash docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt | 79 ++- qemu-deprecated.texi | 38 +- tests/qapi-schema/doc-good.texi | 32 ++ qapi/block-core.json | 69 ++- qapi/block.json | 9 +- qapi/char.json | 1 + qapi/compat.json | 52 ++ qapi/control.json | 11 +- qapi/introspect.json | 26 +- qapi/machine.json | 34 +- qapi/migration.json | 36 +- qapi/misc.json | 13 +- qapi/qapi-schema.json | 1 + include/qapi/compat-policy.h | 20 + include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h | 1 + include/qapi/qobject-input-visitor.h | 9 + include/qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h | 9 + include/qapi/visitor-impl.h | 3 + include/qapi/visitor.h | 9 + qapi/qapi-visit-core.c | 9 + qapi/qmp-dispatch.c | 137 ++--- qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c | 29 ++ qapi/qobject-output-visitor.c | 20 + softmmu/vl.c | 17 + tests/test-qmp-cmds.c | 249 +++++---- tests/test-qmp-event.c | 183 ++----- qapi/Makefile.objs | 8 +- qapi/trace-events | 1 + qemu-options.hx | 23 + scripts/qapi/commands.py | 20 +- scripts/qapi/doc.py | 16 +- scripts/qapi/events.py | 16 +- scripts/qapi/expr.py | 14 +- scripts/qapi/introspect.py | 104 ++-- scripts/qapi/schema.py | 488 ++++++++++-------- scripts/qapi/types.py | 8 +- scripts/qapi/visit.py | 28 +- tests/Makefile.include | 1 + tests/qapi-schema/alternate-base.err | 2 +- tests/qapi-schema/doc-good.json | 22 +- tests/qapi-schema/doc-good.out | 18 + .../qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.err | 2 + .../qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.json | 3 + .../qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.out | 0 tests/qapi-schema/qapi-schema-test.json | 48 +- tests/qapi-schema/qapi-schema-test.out | 46 +- tests/qapi-schema/test-qapi.py | 26 +- 47 files changed, 1259 insertions(+), 731 deletions(-) create mode 100644 qapi/compat.json create mode 100644 include/qapi/compat-policy.h create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.err create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.json create mode 100644 tests/qapi-schema/features-deprecated-type.out -- 2.21.1