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-rw-r--r--include/qapi/dealloc-visitor.h5
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/opts-visitor.h5
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.h9
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h6
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/string-input-visitor.h5
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/string-output-visitor.h5
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/visitor-impl.h81
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/visitor.h493
8 files changed, 560 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/include/qapi/dealloc-visitor.h b/include/qapi/dealloc-visitor.h
index cf4c36d2d3..45b06b248c 100644
--- a/include/qapi/dealloc-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/dealloc-visitor.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
typedef struct QapiDeallocVisitor QapiDeallocVisitor;
+/*
+ * The dealloc visitor is primarly used only by generated
+ * qapi_free_FOO() functions, and is the only visitor designed to work
+ * correctly in the face of a partially-constructed QAPI tree.
+ */
QapiDeallocVisitor *qapi_dealloc_visitor_new(void);
void qapi_dealloc_visitor_cleanup(QapiDeallocVisitor *d);
diff --git a/include/qapi/opts-visitor.h b/include/qapi/opts-visitor.h
index fd48c14ec8..ae1bf7cf51 100644
--- a/include/qapi/opts-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/opts-visitor.h
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ typedef struct OptsVisitor OptsVisitor;
* - string representations of negative numbers yield negative values,
* - values below INT64_MIN or LLONG_MIN are rejected,
* - values above INT64_MAX or LLONG_MAX are rejected.
+ *
+ * The Opts input visitor does not implement support for visiting QAPI
+ * alternates, numbers (other than integers), null, or arbitrary
+ * QTypes. It also requires a non-null list argument to
+ * visit_start_list().
*/
OptsVisitor *opts_visitor_new(const QemuOpts *opts);
void opts_visitor_cleanup(OptsVisitor *nv);
diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.h b/include/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.h
index 3ed499cc42..b0624d8683 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp-input-visitor.h
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@
typedef struct QmpInputVisitor QmpInputVisitor;
-QmpInputVisitor *qmp_input_visitor_new(QObject *obj);
-QmpInputVisitor *qmp_input_visitor_new_strict(QObject *obj);
+/*
+ * Return a new input visitor that converts QMP to QAPI.
+ *
+ * Set @strict to reject a parse that doesn't consume all keys of a
+ * dictionary; otherwise excess input is ignored.
+ */
+QmpInputVisitor *qmp_input_visitor_new(QObject *obj, bool strict);
void qmp_input_visitor_cleanup(QmpInputVisitor *v);
diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h b/include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h
index 495520994c..5609946a16 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/dispatch.h
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@
typedef void (QmpCommandFunc)(QDict *, QObject **, Error **);
-typedef enum QmpCommandType
-{
- QCT_NORMAL,
-} QmpCommandType;
-
typedef enum QmpCommandOptions
{
QCO_NO_OPTIONS = 0x0,
@@ -33,7 +28,6 @@ typedef enum QmpCommandOptions
typedef struct QmpCommand
{
const char *name;
- QmpCommandType type;
QmpCommandFunc *fn;
QmpCommandOptions options;
QTAILQ_ENTRY(QmpCommand) node;
diff --git a/include/qapi/string-input-visitor.h b/include/qapi/string-input-visitor.h
index 089243c09e..7b76c2b9e3 100644
--- a/include/qapi/string-input-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/string-input-visitor.h
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
typedef struct StringInputVisitor StringInputVisitor;
+/*
+ * The string input visitor does not implement support for visiting
+ * QAPI structs, alternates, null, or arbitrary QTypes. It also
+ * requires a non-null list argument to visit_start_list().
+ */
StringInputVisitor *string_input_visitor_new(const char *str);
void string_input_visitor_cleanup(StringInputVisitor *v);
diff --git a/include/qapi/string-output-visitor.h b/include/qapi/string-output-visitor.h
index d99717f650..e10522a35b 100644
--- a/include/qapi/string-output-visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/string-output-visitor.h
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
typedef struct StringOutputVisitor StringOutputVisitor;
+/*
+ * The string output visitor does not implement support for visiting
+ * QAPI structs, alternates, null, or arbitrary QTypes. It also
+ * requires a non-null list argument to visit_start_list().
+ */
StringOutputVisitor *string_output_visitor_new(bool human);
void string_output_visitor_cleanup(StringOutputVisitor *v);
diff --git a/include/qapi/visitor-impl.h b/include/qapi/visitor-impl.h
index 2bd8f292b2..145afd03e7 100644
--- a/include/qapi/visitor-impl.h
+++ b/include/qapi/visitor-impl.h
@@ -14,55 +14,96 @@
#include "qapi/visitor.h"
+/*
+ * This file describes the callback interface for implementing a QAPI
+ * visitor. For the client interface, see visitor.h. When
+ * implementing the callbacks, it is easiest to declare a struct with
+ * 'Visitor visitor;' as the first member. A callback's contract
+ * matches the corresponding public functions' contract unless stated
+ * otherwise. In the comments below, some callbacks are marked "must
+ * be set for $TYPE visits to work"; if a visitor implementation omits
+ * that callback, it should also document that it is only useful for a
+ * subset of QAPI.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * There are three classes of visitors; setting the class determines
+ * how QAPI enums are visited, as well as what additional restrictions
+ * can be asserted.
+ */
+typedef enum VisitorType {
+ VISITOR_INPUT,
+ VISITOR_OUTPUT,
+ VISITOR_DEALLOC,
+} VisitorType;
+
struct Visitor
{
- /* Must be set */
+ /* Must be set to visit structs */
void (*start_struct)(Visitor *v, const char *name, void **obj,
size_t size, Error **errp);
- void (*end_struct)(Visitor *v, Error **errp);
- void (*start_list)(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp);
+ /* Optional; intended for input visitors */
+ void (*check_struct)(Visitor *v, Error **errp);
+
+ /* Must be set to visit structs */
+ void (*end_struct)(Visitor *v);
+
+ /* Must be set; implementations may require @list to be non-null,
+ * but must document it. */
+ void (*start_list)(Visitor *v, const char *name, GenericList **list,
+ size_t size, Error **errp);
+
/* Must be set */
- GenericList *(*next_list)(Visitor *v, GenericList **list, size_t size);
+ GenericList *(*next_list)(Visitor *v, GenericList *tail, size_t size);
+
/* Must be set */
void (*end_list)(Visitor *v);
- /* Optional, needed for input and dealloc visitors. */
+ /* Must be set by input and dealloc visitors to visit alternates;
+ * optional for output visitors. */
void (*start_alternate)(Visitor *v, const char *name,
GenericAlternate **obj, size_t size,
bool promote_int, Error **errp);
- /* Optional, needed for dealloc visitor. */
+ /* Optional, needed for dealloc visitor */
void (*end_alternate)(Visitor *v);
- /* Must be set. */
- void (*type_enum)(Visitor *v, const char *name, int *obj,
- const char *const strings[], Error **errp);
-
- /* Must be set. */
+ /* Must be set */
void (*type_int64)(Visitor *v, const char *name, int64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
- /* Must be set. */
+
+ /* Must be set */
void (*type_uint64)(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
- /* Optional; fallback is type_uint64(). */
+
+ /* Optional; fallback is type_uint64() */
void (*type_size)(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
- /* Must be set. */
+
+ /* Must be set */
void (*type_bool)(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *obj, Error **errp);
+
+ /* Must be set */
void (*type_str)(Visitor *v, const char *name, char **obj, Error **errp);
+
+ /* Must be set to visit numbers */
void (*type_number)(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+ /* Must be set to visit arbitrary QTypes */
void (*type_any)(Visitor *v, const char *name, QObject **obj,
Error **errp);
- /* May be NULL; most useful for input visitors. */
+ /* Must be set to visit explicit null values. */
+ void (*type_null)(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp);
+
+ /* Must be set for input visitors, optional otherwise. The core
+ * takes care of the return type in the public interface. */
void (*optional)(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *present);
-};
-void input_type_enum(Visitor *v, const char *name, int *obj,
- const char *const strings[], Error **errp);
-void output_type_enum(Visitor *v, const char *name, int *obj,
- const char *const strings[], Error **errp);
+ /* Must be set */
+ VisitorType type;
+};
#endif
diff --git a/include/qapi/visitor.h b/include/qapi/visitor.h
index 9a8d0105fb..4d12167bdc 100644
--- a/include/qapi/visitor.h
+++ b/include/qapi/visitor.h
@@ -16,8 +16,199 @@
#include "qapi/qmp/qobject.h"
+/*
+ * The QAPI schema defines both a set of C data types, and a QMP wire
+ * format. QAPI objects can contain references to other QAPI objects,
+ * resulting in a directed acyclic graph. QAPI also generates visitor
+ * functions to walk these graphs. This file represents the interface
+ * for doing work at each node of a QAPI graph; it can also be used
+ * for a virtual walk, where there is no actual QAPI C struct.
+ *
+ * There are three kinds of visitor classes: input visitors (QMP,
+ * string, and QemuOpts) parse an external representation and build
+ * the corresponding QAPI graph, output visitors (QMP and string) take
+ * a completed QAPI graph and generate an external representation, and
+ * the dealloc visitor can take a QAPI graph (possibly partially
+ * constructed) and recursively free its resources. While the dealloc
+ * and QMP input/output visitors are general, the string and QemuOpts
+ * visitors have some implementation limitations; see the
+ * documentation for each visitor for more details on what it
+ * supports. Also, see visitor-impl.h for the callback contracts
+ * implemented by each visitor, and docs/qapi-code-gen.txt for more
+ * about the QAPI code generator.
+ *
+ * All QAPI types have a corresponding function with a signature
+ * roughly compatible with this:
+ *
+ * void visit_type_FOO(Visitor *v, const char *name, T obj, Error **errp);
+ *
+ * where T is FOO for scalar types, and FOO * otherwise. The scalar
+ * visitors are declared here; the remaining visitors are generated in
+ * qapi-visit.h.
+ *
+ * The @name parameter of visit_type_FOO() describes the relation
+ * between this QAPI value and its parent container. When visiting
+ * the root of a tree, @name is ignored; when visiting a member of an
+ * object, @name is the key associated with the value; and when
+ * visiting a member of a list, @name is NULL.
+ *
+ * FIXME: Clients must pass NULL for @name when visiting a member of a
+ * list, but this leads to poor error messages; it might be nicer to
+ * require a non-NULL name such as "key.0" for '{ "key": [ "value" ]
+ * }' if an error is encountered on "value" (or to have the visitor
+ * core auto-generate the nicer name).
+ *
+ * The visit_type_FOO() functions expect a non-null @obj argument;
+ * they allocate *@obj during input visits, leave it unchanged on
+ * output visits, and recursively free any resources during a dealloc
+ * visit. Each function also takes the customary @errp argument (see
+ * qapi/error.h for details), for reporting any errors (such as if a
+ * member @name is not present, or is present but not the specified
+ * type).
+ *
+ * If an error is detected during visit_type_FOO() with an input
+ * visitor, then *@obj will be NULL for pointer types, and left
+ * unchanged for scalar types. Using an output visitor with an
+ * incomplete object has undefined behavior (other than a special case
+ * for visit_type_str() treating NULL like ""), while the dealloc
+ * visitor safely handles incomplete objects. Since input visitors
+ * never produce an incomplete object, such an object is possible only
+ * by manual construction.
+ *
+ * For the QAPI object types (structs, unions, and alternates), there
+ * is an additional generated function in qapi-visit.h compatible
+ * with:
+ *
+ * void visit_type_FOO_members(Visitor *v, FOO *obj, Error **errp);
+ *
+ * for visiting the members of a type without also allocating the QAPI
+ * struct.
+ *
+ * Additionally, in qapi-types.h, all QAPI pointer types (structs,
+ * unions, alternates, and lists) have a generated function compatible
+ * with:
+ *
+ * void qapi_free_FOO(FOO *obj);
+ *
+ * which behaves like free() in that @obj may be NULL. Because of
+ * these functions, the dealloc visitor is seldom used directly
+ * outside of generated code. QAPI types can also inherit from a base
+ * class; when this happens, a function is generated for easily going
+ * from the derived type to the base type:
+ *
+ * BASE *qapi_CHILD_base(CHILD *obj);
+ *
+ * For a real QAPI struct, typical input usage involves:
+ *
+ * <example>
+ * Foo *f;
+ * Error *err = NULL;
+ * Visitor *v;
+ *
+ * v = ...obtain input visitor...
+ * visit_type_Foo(v, NULL, &f, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * ...handle error...
+ * } else {
+ * ...use f...
+ * }
+ * ...clean up v...
+ * qapi_free_Foo(f);
+ * </example>
+ *
+ * For a list, it is:
+ * <example>
+ * FooList *l;
+ * Error *err = NULL;
+ * Visitor *v;
+ *
+ * v = ...obtain input visitor...
+ * visit_type_FooList(v, NULL, &l, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * ...handle error...
+ * } else {
+ * for ( ; l; l = l->next) {
+ * ...use l->value...
+ * }
+ * }
+ * ...clean up v...
+ * qapi_free_FooList(l);
+ * </example>
+ *
+ * Similarly, typical output usage is:
+ *
+ * <example>
+ * Foo *f = ...obtain populated object...
+ * Error *err = NULL;
+ * Visitor *v;
+ *
+ * v = ...obtain output visitor...
+ * visit_type_Foo(v, NULL, &f, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * ...handle error...
+ * }
+ * ...clean up v...
+ * </example>
+ *
+ * When visiting a real QAPI struct, this file provides several
+ * helpers that rely on in-tree information to control the walk:
+ * visit_optional() for the 'has_member' field associated with
+ * optional 'member' in the C struct; and visit_next_list() for
+ * advancing through a FooList linked list. Similarly, the
+ * visit_is_input() helper makes it possible to write code that is
+ * visitor-agnostic everywhere except for cleanup. Only the generated
+ * visit_type functions need to use these helpers.
+ *
+ * It is also possible to use the visitors to do a virtual walk, where
+ * no actual QAPI struct is present. In this situation, decisions
+ * about what needs to be walked are made by the calling code, and
+ * structured visits are split between pairs of start and end methods
+ * (where the end method must be called if the start function
+ * succeeded, even if an intermediate visit encounters an error).
+ * Thus, a virtual walk corresponding to '{ "list": [1, 2] }' looks
+ * like:
+ *
+ * <example>
+ * Visitor *v;
+ * Error *err = NULL;
+ * int value;
+ *
+ * v = ...obtain visitor...
+ * visit_start_struct(v, NULL, NULL, 0, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * goto out;
+ * }
+ * visit_start_list(v, "list", NULL, 0, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * goto outobj;
+ * }
+ * value = 1;
+ * visit_type_int(v, NULL, &value, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * goto outlist;
+ * }
+ * value = 2;
+ * visit_type_int(v, NULL, &value, &err);
+ * if (err) {
+ * goto outlist;
+ * }
+ * outlist:
+ * visit_end_list(v);
+ * if (!err) {
+ * visit_check_struct(v, &err);
+ * }
+ * outobj:
+ * visit_end_struct(v);
+ * out:
+ * error_propagate(errp, err);
+ * ...clean up v...
+ * </example>
+ */
+
+/*** Useful types ***/
+
/* This struct is layout-compatible with all other *List structs
- * created by the qapi generator. It is used as a typical
+ * created by the QAPI generator. It is used as a typical
* singly-linked list. */
typedef struct GenericList {
struct GenericList *next;
@@ -25,35 +216,139 @@ typedef struct GenericList {
} GenericList;
/* This struct is layout-compatible with all Alternate types
- * created by the qapi generator. */
+ * created by the QAPI generator. */
typedef struct GenericAlternate {
QType type;
char padding[];
} GenericAlternate;
+/*** Visiting structures ***/
+
+/*
+ * Start visiting an object @obj (struct or union).
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this object to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL for a real walk, in which case @size
+ * determines how much memory an input visitor will allocate into
+ * *@obj. @obj may also be NULL for a virtual walk, in which case
+ * @size is ignored.
+ *
+ * @errp obeys typical error usage, and reports failures such as a
+ * member @name is not present, or present but not an object. On
+ * error, input visitors set *@obj to NULL.
+ *
+ * After visit_start_struct() succeeds, the caller may visit its
+ * members one after the other, passing the member's name and address
+ * within the struct. Finally, visit_end_struct() needs to be called
+ * to clean up, even if intermediate visits fail. See the examples
+ * above.
+ *
+ * FIXME Should this be named visit_start_object, since it is also
+ * used for QAPI unions, and maps to JSON objects?
+ */
void visit_start_struct(Visitor *v, const char *name, void **obj,
size_t size, Error **errp);
-void visit_end_struct(Visitor *v, Error **errp);
-void visit_start_list(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp);
-GenericList *visit_next_list(Visitor *v, GenericList **list, size_t size);
+/*
+ * Prepare for completing an object visit.
+ *
+ * @errp obeys typical error usage, and reports failures such as
+ * unparsed keys remaining in the input stream.
+ *
+ * Should be called prior to visit_end_struct() if all other
+ * intermediate visit steps were successful, to allow the visitor one
+ * last chance to report errors. May be skipped on a cleanup path,
+ * where there is no need to check for further errors.
+ */
+void visit_check_struct(Visitor *v, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Complete an object visit started earlier.
+ *
+ * Must be called after any successful use of visit_start_struct(),
+ * even if intermediate processing was skipped due to errors, to allow
+ * the backend to release any resources. Destroying the visitor early
+ * behaves as if this was implicitly called.
+ */
+void visit_end_struct(Visitor *v);
+
+
+/*** Visiting lists ***/
+
+/*
+ * Start visiting a list.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this list to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @list must be non-NULL for a real walk, in which case @size
+ * determines how much memory an input visitor will allocate into
+ * *@list (at least sizeof(GenericList)). Some visitors also allow
+ * @list to be NULL for a virtual walk, in which case @size is
+ * ignored.
+ *
+ * @errp obeys typical error usage, and reports failures such as a
+ * member @name is not present, or present but not a list. On error,
+ * input visitors set *@list to NULL.
+ *
+ * After visit_start_list() succeeds, the caller may visit its members
+ * one after the other. A real visit (where @obj is non-NULL) uses
+ * visit_next_list() for traversing the linked list, while a virtual
+ * visit (where @obj is NULL) uses other means. For each list
+ * element, call the appropriate visit_type_FOO() with name set to
+ * NULL and obj set to the address of the value member of the list
+ * element. Finally, visit_end_list() needs to be called to clean up,
+ * even if intermediate visits fail. See the examples above.
+ */
+void visit_start_list(Visitor *v, const char *name, GenericList **list,
+ size_t size, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Iterate over a GenericList during a non-virtual list visit.
+ *
+ * @size represents the size of a linked list node (at least
+ * sizeof(GenericList)).
+ *
+ * @tail must not be NULL; on the first call, @tail is the value of
+ * *list after visit_start_list(), and on subsequent calls @tail must
+ * be the previously returned value. Should be called in a loop until
+ * a NULL return or error occurs; for each non-NULL return, the caller
+ * then calls the appropriate visit_type_*() for the element type of
+ * the list, with that function's name parameter set to NULL and obj
+ * set to the address of @tail->value.
+ */
+GenericList *visit_next_list(Visitor *v, GenericList *tail, size_t size);
+
+/*
+ * Complete a list visit started earlier.
+ *
+ * Must be called after any successful use of visit_start_list(), even
+ * if intermediate processing was skipped due to errors, to allow the
+ * backend to release any resources. Destroying the visitor early
+ * behaves as if this was implicitly called.
+ */
void visit_end_list(Visitor *v);
+
+/*** Visiting alternates ***/
+
/*
- * Start the visit of an alternate @obj with the given @size.
+ * Start the visit of an alternate @obj.
*
- * @name specifies the relationship to the containing struct (ignored
- * for a top level visit, the name of the key if this alternate is
- * part of an object, or NULL if this alternate is part of a list).
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this alternate to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
*
- * @obj must not be NULL. Input visitors will allocate @obj and
- * determine the qtype of the next thing to be visited, stored in
- * (*@obj)->type. Other visitors will leave @obj unchanged.
+ * @obj must not be NULL. Input visitors use @size to determine how
+ * much memory to allocate into *@obj, then determine the qtype of the
+ * next thing to be visited, stored in (*@obj)->type. Other visitors
+ * will leave @obj unchanged.
*
* If @promote_int, treat integers as QTYPE_FLOAT.
*
- * If successful, this must be paired with visit_end_alternate(), even
- * if visiting the contents of the alternate fails.
+ * If successful, this must be paired with visit_end_alternate() to
+ * clean up, even if visiting the contents of the alternate fails.
*/
void visit_start_alternate(Visitor *v, const char *name,
GenericAlternate **obj, size_t size,
@@ -62,46 +357,202 @@ void visit_start_alternate(Visitor *v, const char *name,
/*
* Finish visiting an alternate type.
*
- * Must be called after a successful visit_start_alternate(), even if
- * an error occurred in the meantime.
+ * Must be called after any successful use of visit_start_alternate(),
+ * even if intermediate processing was skipped due to errors, to allow
+ * the backend to release any resources. Destroying the visitor early
+ * behaves as if this was implicitly called.
*
* TODO: Should all the visit_end_* interfaces take obj parameter, so
* that dealloc visitor need not track what was passed in visit_start?
*/
void visit_end_alternate(Visitor *v);
-/**
- * Check if an optional member @name of an object needs visiting.
- * For input visitors, set *@present according to whether the
- * corresponding visit_type_*() needs calling; for other visitors,
- * leave *@present unchanged. Return *@present for convenience.
+
+/*** Other helpers ***/
+
+/*
+ * Does optional struct member @name need visiting?
+ *
+ * @name must not be NULL. This function is only useful between
+ * visit_start_struct() and visit_end_struct(), since only objects
+ * have optional keys.
+ *
+ * @present points to the address of the optional member's has_ flag.
+ *
+ * Input visitors set *@present according to input; other visitors
+ * leave it unchanged. In either case, return *@present for
+ * convenience.
*/
bool visit_optional(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *present);
+/*
+ * Visit an enum value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this enum to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors parse input and set *@obj to
+ * the enumeration value, leaving @obj unchanged on error; other
+ * visitors use *@obj but leave it unchanged.
+ *
+ * Currently, all input visitors parse text input, and all output
+ * visitors produce text output. The mapping between enumeration
+ * values and strings is done by the visitor core, using @strings; it
+ * should be the ENUM_lookup array from visit-types.h.
+ *
+ * May call visit_type_str() under the hood, and the enum visit may
+ * fail even if the corresponding string visit succeeded; this implies
+ * that visit_type_str() must have no unwelcome side effects.
+ */
void visit_type_enum(Visitor *v, const char *name, int *obj,
const char *const strings[], Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Check if visitor is an input visitor.
+ */
+bool visit_is_input(Visitor *v);
+
+/*** Visiting built-in types ***/
+
+/*
+ * Visit an integer value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this integer to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors set *@obj to the value;
+ * other visitors will leave *@obj unchanged.
+ */
void visit_type_int(Visitor *v, const char *name, int64_t *obj, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a uint8_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to uint8_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_uint8(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint8_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a uint16_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to uint16_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_uint16(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint16_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a uint32_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to uint32_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_uint32(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint32_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a uint64_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to uint64_t range,
+ * that is, ensures it is unsigned.
+ */
void visit_type_uint64(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit an int8_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to int8_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_int8(Visitor *v, const char *name, int8_t *obj, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit an int16_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to int16_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_int16(Visitor *v, const char *name, int16_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit an int32_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_int(), except clamps the value to int32_t range.
+ */
void visit_type_int32(Visitor *v, const char *name, int32_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit an int64_t value.
+ * Identical to visit_type_int().
+ */
void visit_type_int64(Visitor *v, const char *name, int64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a uint64_t value.
+ * Like visit_type_uint64(), except that some visitors may choose to
+ * recognize additional syntax, such as suffixes for easily scaling
+ * values.
+ */
void visit_type_size(Visitor *v, const char *name, uint64_t *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a boolean value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this boolean to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors set *@obj to the value;
+ * other visitors will leave *@obj unchanged.
+ */
void visit_type_bool(Visitor *v, const char *name, bool *obj, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a string value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this string to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors set *@obj to the value
+ * (never NULL). Other visitors leave *@obj unchanged, and commonly
+ * treat NULL like "".
+ *
+ * It is safe to cast away const when preparing a (const char *) value
+ * into @obj for use by an output visitor.
+ *
+ * FIXME: Callers that try to output NULL *obj should not be allowed.
+ */
void visit_type_str(Visitor *v, const char *name, char **obj, Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit a number (i.e. double) value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this number to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors set *@obj to the value;
+ * other visitors will leave *@obj unchanged. Visitors should
+ * document if infinity or NaN are not permitted.
+ */
void visit_type_number(Visitor *v, const char *name, double *obj,
Error **errp);
+
+/*
+ * Visit an arbitrary value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of this value to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * @obj must be non-NULL. Input visitors set *@obj to the value;
+ * other visitors will leave *@obj unchanged. *@obj must be non-NULL
+ * for output visitors.
+ */
void visit_type_any(Visitor *v, const char *name, QObject **obj, Error **errp);
+/*
+ * Visit a JSON null value.
+ *
+ * @name expresses the relationship of the null value to its parent
+ * container; see the general description of @name above.
+ *
+ * Unlike all other visit_type_* functions, no obj parameter is
+ * needed; rather, this is a witness that an explicit null value is
+ * expected rather than any other type.
+ */
+void visit_type_null(Visitor *v, const char *name, Error **errp);
+
#endif