Hi, Happy 1st April. Not a joke :) /* ugh, took me too long to send */
This series is about adding a generator in scripts/qapi to produce Go data structures that can be used to communicate with QEMU over QMP. * Why Go? There are quite a few Go projects that interact with QEMU over QMP and they endup using a mix of different libraries with their own code. ** Which projects? The ones I've found so far: - podman machine https://github.com/containers/podman/tree/main/pkg/machine/qemu - kata-containers (govmm) https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/tree/main/src/runtime/pkg/govmm - lxd https://github.com/lxc/lxd/tree/master/lxd/instance/drivers - kubevirt (plain json strings) https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt (let me know if you know others) * But Why? I'm particularly interested in 3 out of 4 of the projects above and only Kubevirt uses libvirt to handle QEMU. That means that every QEMU releases where a QMP command, event or other data struct is added, removed or changed, those projects need to check what changed in QEMU and then address those changes in their projects, if needed. The idea behind generating Go data structures is that we can keep a Go module which can have releases that follow QEMU releases. The project that uses this Go module, only need to bump the module version and it shall receive all the changes in their own vendored code base. * Status There are a few rough edges to work on but this is usable. The major thing I forgot to add is handling Error from Commands. It'll be the first thing I'll work on next week. If you want to start using this Today you can fetch it in at https://gitlab.com/victortoso/qapi-go/ There are quite a few tests that I took from the examples in the qapi schema. Coverage using go's cover tool is giving `28.6% of statements` I've uploaded the a static generated godoc output of the above Go module here: https://fedorapeople.org/~victortoso/qapi-go/rfc/victortoso.com/qapi-go/pkg/qapi/ * License While the generator (golang.py in this series) is GPL v2, the generated code needs to be compatible with other Golang projects, such as the ones mentioned above. My intention is to keep a Go module with a MIT license. * Disclaimer to reviewers This is my first serious python project so there'll be lots of suggetions that I'll be happy to take and learn from. Thanks for taking a look, let me know if you have questions, ideas or suggestions. Cheers, Victor Victor Toso (8): qapi: golang: Generate qapi's enum types in Go qapi: golang: Generate qapi's alternate types in Go qapi: golang: Generate qapi's struct types in Go qapi: golang: Generate qapi's union types in Go qapi: golang: Generate qapi's event types in Go qapi: golang: Generate qapi's command types in Go qapi: golang: Add CommandResult type to Go qapi: golang: document skip function visit_array_types qapi/meson.build | 1 + scripts/qapi/golang.py | 727 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/qapi/main.py | 2 + 3 files changed, 730 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/qapi/golang.py -- 2.35.1