[v2,24/24] keyval: Support lists

Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:

> Am 28.02.2017 um 22:27 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
>> Additionally permit non-negative integers as key components.  A
>> dictionary's keys must either be all integers or none.  If all keys
>> are integers, convert the dictionary to a list.  The set of keys must
>> be [0,N].
>> 
>> Examples:
>> 
>> * list.1=goner,list.0=null,list.1=eins,list.2=zwei
>>   is equivalent to JSON [ "null", "eins", "zwei" ]
>> 
>> * a.b.c=1,a.b.0=2
>>   is inconsistent: a.b.c clashes with a.b.0
>> 
>> * list.0=null,list.2=eins,list.2=zwei
>>   has a hole: list.1 is missing
>> 
>> Similar design flaw as for objects: there is no way to denote an empty
>> list.  While interpreting "key absent" as empty list seems natural
>> (removing a list member from the input string works when there are
>> multiple ones, so why not when there's just one), it doesn't work:
>> "key absent" already means "optional list absent", which isn't the
>> same as "empty list present".
>> 
>> Update the keyval object visitor to use this a.0 syntax in error
>> messages rather than the usual a[0].
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>
>> +/*
>> + * Listify @cur recursively.
>> + * Replace QDicts whose keys are all valid list indexes by QLists.
>> + * @key_of_cur is the list of key fragments leading up to @cur.
>> + * On success, return either @cur or its replacement.
>> + * On failure, store an error through @errp and return NULL.
>> + */
>> +static QObject *keyval_listify(QDict *cur, GSList *key_of_cur, Error **errp)
>> +{
>> +    GSList key_node;
>> +    bool has_index, has_member;
>> +    const QDictEntry *ent;
>> +    QDict *qdict;
>> +    QObject *val;
>> +    char *key;
>> +    size_t nelt;
>> +    QObject **elt;
>> +    int index, max_index, i;
>> +    QList *list;
>> +
>> +    key_node.next = key_of_cur;
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * Recursively listify @cur's members, and figure out whether @cur
>> +     * itself is to be listified.
>> +     */
>> +    has_index = false;
>> +    has_member = false;
>> +    for (ent = qdict_first(cur); ent; ent = qdict_next(cur, ent)) {
>> +        if (key_to_index(ent->key, NULL) >= 0) {
>> +            has_index = true;
>> +        } else {
>> +            has_member = true;
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        qdict = qobject_to_qdict(ent->value);
>> +        if (!qdict) {
>> +            continue;
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        key_node.data = ent->key;
>> +        val = keyval_listify(qdict, &key_node, errp);
>> +        if (!val) {
>> +            return NULL;
>> +        }
>> +        if (val != ent->value) {
>> +            qdict_put_obj(cur, ent->key, val);
>> +        }
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    if (has_index && has_member) {
>> +        key = reassemble_key(key_of_cur);
>> +        error_setg(errp, "Parameters '%s*' used inconsistently", key);
>> +        g_free(key);
>> +        return NULL;
>> +    }
>> +    if (!has_index) {
>> +        return QOBJECT(cur);
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    /* Copy @cur's values to @elt[] */
>> +    nelt = qdict_size(cur) + 1; /* one extra, for use as sentinel */
>> +    elt = g_new0(QObject *, nelt);
>> +    max_index = -1;
>> +    for (ent = qdict_first(cur); ent; ent = qdict_next(cur, ent)) {
>> +        index = key_to_index(ent->key, NULL);
>> +        assert(index >= 0);
>> +        if (index > max_index) {
>> +            max_index = index;
>> +        }
>> +        /*
>> +         * We iterate @nelt times.  If we get one exceeding @nelt
>> +         * here, we will put less than @nelt values into @elt[],
>> +         * triggering the error in the next loop.
>> +         */
>> +        if ((size_t)index >= nelt) {
>
> I think this needs to be index >= nelt - 1 now...
>
>> +            continue;
>> +        }
>> +        /* Even though dict keys are distinct, indexes need not be */
>> +        elt[index] = ent->value;
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * Make a list from @elt[], reporting any missing elements.
>> +     * If we dropped an index >= nelt in the previous loop, this loop
>> +     * will run into the sentinel and report index @nelt missing.
>> +     */
>> +    list = qlist_new();
>> +    assert(!elt[nelt-1]);       /* need the sentinel to be null */
>
> ...or this assertion can fail.

Yup.

Appended fix squashed in and pushed to my public repo.  R-by?

>> +    for (i = 0; i < MIN(nelt, max_index + 1); i++) {
>> +        if (!elt[i]) {
>> +            key = reassemble_key(key_of_cur);
>> +            error_setg(errp, "Parameter '%s%d' missing", key, i);
>> +            g_free(key);
>> +            g_free(elt);
>> +            QDECREF(list);
>> +            return NULL;
>> +        }
>> +        qobject_incref(elt[i]);
>> +        qlist_append_obj(list, elt[i]);
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    g_free(elt);
>> +    return QOBJECT(list);
>> +}
>
> Kevin

[v2,24/24] keyval: Support lists

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