Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 34/36] qapi: Add positive tests to qapi-schema-test

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/18/2015 01:53 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Add positive tests to qapi-schema-test for things that were
>> made possible by recent patches but which caused compile errors
>> due to collisions prior to that point.  The focus is mainly on
>> collisions due to names we have reserved for qapi, even though
>> it is unlikely that anyone will want to abuse these names in
>> actual .json files.
>> 
>> The added tests includes:
>> Use of a member name ending in 'Kind' or 'List' [1, 3]
>
> Violates our coding convention of all lower case, so not worth testing.
>
>> Use of a type name starting with 'has_' [1, 4]
>
> Ditto.
>
>> Use of a type named 'u' [1, 5]
>
> Ditto.
>
>> Use of a union branch name of 'u' [2, 5]
>> Use of a union branch name starting with 'has_' [2, 4]
>
> Leaving just these two feels pretty weak.  I think I'll just drop this
> patch from my queue entirely (it was great at proving that recent layout
> improvements worked, but it's not the end of the world to lose it
> entirely, especially now that v13 is starting to enforce naming
> conventions except for a few whitelisted names, and I don't want to make
> the whitelist longer just for the testsuite).

Makes sense.

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