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[v3,2/7] qapi: Add qobject_to()

Message ID 20180224154033.29559-3-mreitz@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Max Reitz Feb. 24, 2018, 3:40 p.m. UTC
This is a dynamic casting macro that, given a QObject type, returns an
object as that type or NULL if the object is of a different type (or
NULL itself).

The macro uses lower-case letters because:
1. There does not seem to be a hard rule on whether qemu macros have to
   be upper-cased,
2. The current situation in qapi/qmp is inconsistent (compare e.g.
   QINCREF() vs. qdict_put()),
3. qobject_to() will evaluate its @obj parameter only once, thus it is
   generally not important to the caller whether it is a macro or not,
4. I prefer it aesthetically.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

Comments

Eric Blake Feb. 24, 2018, 8:57 p.m. UTC | #1
On 02/24/2018 09:40 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> This is a dynamic casting macro that, given a QObject type, returns an
> object as that type or NULL if the object is of a different type (or
> NULL itself).
> 
> The macro uses lower-case letters because:
> 1. There does not seem to be a hard rule on whether qemu macros have to
>     be upper-cased,
> 2. The current situation in qapi/qmp is inconsistent (compare e.g.
>     QINCREF() vs. qdict_put()),
> 3. qobject_to() will evaluate its @obj parameter only once, thus it is
>     generally not important to the caller whether it is a macro or not,
> 4. I prefer it aesthetically.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>   include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
> 

> +++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ struct QObject {
>   #define QDECREF(obj)              \
>       qobject_decref(obj ? QOBJECT(obj) : NULL)
>   
> +/* Required for qobject_to() */
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNull     QTYPE_QNULL
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNum      QTYPE_QNUM
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QString   QTYPE_QSTRING
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QDict     QTYPE_QDICT
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QList     QTYPE_QLIST
> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QBool     QTYPE_QBOOL
> +
> +QEMU_BUILD_BUG_MSG(QTYPE__MAX != 7,
> +                   "The QTYPE_CAST_TO_* list needs to be extended");
> +
> +#define qobject_to(obj, type) \
> +    container_of(qobject_check_type(obj, glue(QTYPE_CAST_TO_, type)) ?: \
> +                     QOBJECT((type *)NULL), \

I guess the third (second?) branch of the ternary is written this way, 
rather than the simpler 'NULL', to ensure that 'type' is still something 
that can have the QOBJECT() macro applied to it?  Should be okay.

> +                 type, base)
> +

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Max Reitz Feb. 26, 2018, 11:58 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2018-02-24 21:57, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/24/2018 09:40 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> This is a dynamic casting macro that, given a QObject type, returns an
>> object as that type or NULL if the object is of a different type (or
>> NULL itself).
>>
>> The macro uses lower-case letters because:
>> 1. There does not seem to be a hard rule on whether qemu macros have to
>>     be upper-cased,
>> 2. The current situation in qapi/qmp is inconsistent (compare e.g.
>>     QINCREF() vs. qdict_put()),
>> 3. qobject_to() will evaluate its @obj parameter only once, thus it is
>>     generally not important to the caller whether it is a macro or not,
>> 4. I prefer it aesthetically.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>>
> 
>> +++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
>> @@ -50,6 +50,22 @@ struct QObject {
>>   #define QDECREF(obj)              \
>>       qobject_decref(obj ? QOBJECT(obj) : NULL)
>>   +/* Required for qobject_to() */
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNull     QTYPE_QNULL
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNum      QTYPE_QNUM
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QString   QTYPE_QSTRING
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QDict     QTYPE_QDICT
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QList     QTYPE_QLIST
>> +#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QBool     QTYPE_QBOOL
>> +
>> +QEMU_BUILD_BUG_MSG(QTYPE__MAX != 7,
>> +                   "The QTYPE_CAST_TO_* list needs to be extended");
>> +
>> +#define qobject_to(obj, type) \
>> +    container_of(qobject_check_type(obj, glue(QTYPE_CAST_TO_, type))
>> ?: \
>> +                     QOBJECT((type *)NULL), \
> 
> I guess the third (second?) branch of the ternary is written this way,
> rather than the simpler 'NULL', to ensure that 'type' is still something
> that can have the QOBJECT() macro applied to it?  Should be okay.

It's written this way because of the container_of() around it.  We want
the whole expression to return NULL then, and without the QOBJECT()
around it, it would only return NULL if offsetof(type, base) == 0 (which
it is not necessarily).

OTOH, container_of(&((type *)NULL)->base, type, base) is by definition NULL.

(QOBJECT(x) is &(x)->base)

Max

> 
>> +                 type, base)
>> +
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>
Alberto Garcia Feb. 27, 2018, 1:45 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sat 24 Feb 2018 04:40:28 PM CET, Max Reitz wrote:
> This is a dynamic casting macro that, given a QObject type, returns an
> object as that type or NULL if the object is of a different type (or
> NULL itself).
>
> The macro uses lower-case letters because:
> 1. There does not seem to be a hard rule on whether qemu macros have to
>    be upper-cased,
> 2. The current situation in qapi/qmp is inconsistent (compare e.g.
>    QINCREF() vs. qdict_put()),
> 3. qobject_to() will evaluate its @obj parameter only once, thus it is
>    generally not important to the caller whether it is a macro or not,
> 4. I prefer it aesthetically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>

Berto
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diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
index 38ac68845c..a448576b46 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
@@ -50,6 +50,22 @@  struct QObject {
 #define QDECREF(obj)              \
     qobject_decref(obj ? QOBJECT(obj) : NULL)
 
+/* Required for qobject_to() */
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNull     QTYPE_QNULL
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QNum      QTYPE_QNUM
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QString   QTYPE_QSTRING
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QDict     QTYPE_QDICT
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QList     QTYPE_QLIST
+#define QTYPE_CAST_TO_QBool     QTYPE_QBOOL
+
+QEMU_BUILD_BUG_MSG(QTYPE__MAX != 7,
+                   "The QTYPE_CAST_TO_* list needs to be extended");
+
+#define qobject_to(obj, type) \
+    container_of(qobject_check_type(obj, glue(QTYPE_CAST_TO_, type)) ?: \
+                     QOBJECT((type *)NULL), \
+                 type, base)
+
 /* Initialize an object to default values */
 static inline void qobject_init(QObject *obj, QType type)
 {
@@ -102,4 +118,18 @@  static inline QType qobject_type(const QObject *obj)
     return obj->type;
 }
 
+/**
+ * qobject_check_type(): Helper function for the qobject_to() macro.
+ * Return @obj, but only if @obj is not NULL and @type is equal to
+ * @obj's type.  Return NULL otherwise.
+ */
+static inline QObject *qobject_check_type(const QObject *obj, QType type)
+{
+    if (obj && qobject_type(obj) == type) {
+        return (QObject *)obj;
+    } else {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+}
+
 #endif /* QOBJECT_H */