From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/16] qapi: Drop support for escape sequences other than \\
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:18:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e52242e8-8cb8-ee68-cf02-57eea53d571f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190913201349.24332-8-armbru@redhat.com>
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On 9/13/19 3:13 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Since the previous commit restricted strings to printable ASCII,
> \uXXXX's only use is obfuscation. Drop it.
>
> This leaves \\, \/, \', and \". Since QAPI schema strings are all
> names, and names are restricted to ASCII letters, digits, hyphen, and
> underscore, none of them is useful.
>
> The latter three have no test coverage. Drop them.
>
> Keep \\ to avoid (more) gratuitous incompatibility with JSON.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
> +++ b/scripts/qapi/common.py
> @@ -524,29 +524,9 @@ class QAPISchemaParser(object):
> if ch == '\n':
> raise QAPIParseError(self, 'Missing terminating "\'"')
> if esc:
> - elif ch not in '\\/\'"':
> + # Note: we recognize only \\ because we have
> + # no use for funny characters in strings
> + if ch != '\\':
> raise QAPIParseError(self,
> "Unknown escape \\%s" % ch)
Thanks; that comment makes it better than it was in v2.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-13 20:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] qapi: Schema language cleanups & doc improvements Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/16] scripts/git.orderfile: Match QAPI schema more precisely Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/16] qapi: Drop check_type()'s redundant parameter @allow_optional Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/16] qapi: Drop support for boxed alternate arguments Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/16] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Minor specification fixes Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/16] tests/qapi-schema: Demonstrate bad reporting of funny characters Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/16] qapi: Restrict strings to printable ASCII Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/16] qapi: Drop support for escape sequences other than \\ Markus Armbruster
2019-09-17 16:18 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/16] qapi: Permit 'boxed' with empty type Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/16] qapi: Permit alternates with just one branch Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/16] qapi: Permit omitting all flat union branches Markus Armbruster
2019-09-17 16:20 ` Eric Blake
2019-09-23 11:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/16] qapi: Adjust frontend errors to say enum value, not member Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 12/16] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Reorder sections for readability Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 13/16] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Rewrite compatibility considerations Markus Armbruster
2019-09-17 16:22 ` Eric Blake
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 14/16] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Rewrite introduction to schema Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 15/16] docs/devel/qapi-code-gen: Improve QAPI schema language doc Markus Armbruster
2019-09-13 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 16/16] qapi: Tweak code to match docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt Markus Armbruster
2019-09-14 2:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] qapi: Schema language cleanups & doc improvements no-reply
2019-09-17 16:31 ` Eric Blake
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-09-23 18:29 ` Markus Armbruster
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