qemu/qapi/introspect.json
Eric Blake 39a65e2c24 qapi: Document introspection stability considerations
We are not ready (and might never be ready) to declare
introspection stable between releases. Clients written to
control multiple versions of qemu, and desiring to know
whether a particular member is supported for a given
command, must be prepared to locate that member in spite
of qapi changes that may affect the member's location or
type within the overall object, even though such changes
did not break QMP wire back-compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1447264202-19554-1-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2015-11-17 08:42:07 +01:00

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# -*- Mode: Python -*-
#
# QAPI/QMP introspection
#
# Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
#
# Authors:
# Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
# See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
##
# @query-qmp-schema
#
# Command query-qmp-schema exposes the QMP wire ABI as an array of
# SchemaInfo. This lets QMP clients figure out what commands and
# events are available in this QEMU, and their parameters and results.
#
# However, the SchemaInfo can't reflect all the rules and restrictions
# that apply to QMP. It's interface introspection (figuring out
# what's there), not interface specification. The specification is in
# the QAPI schema.
#
# Furthermore, while we strive to keep the QMP wire format
# backwards-compatible across qemu versions, the introspection output
# is not guaranteed to have the same stability. For example, one
# version of qemu may list an object member as an optional
# non-variant, while another lists the same member only through the
# object's variants; or the type of a member may change from a generic
# string into a specific enum or from one specific type into an
# alternate that includes the original type alongside something else.
#
# Returns: array of @SchemaInfo, where each element describes an
# entity in the ABI: command, event, type, ...
#
# The order of the various SchemaInfo is unspecified; however, all
# names are guaranteed to be unique (no name will be duplicated with
# different meta-types).
#
# Note: the QAPI schema is also used to help define *internal*
# interfaces, by defining QAPI types. These are not part of the QMP
# wire ABI, and therefore not returned by this command.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'command': 'query-qmp-schema',
'returns': [ 'SchemaInfo' ],
'gen': false } # just to simplify qmp_query_json()
##
# @SchemaMetaType
#
# This is a @SchemaInfo's meta type, i.e. the kind of entity it
# describes.
#
# @builtin: a predefined type such as 'int' or 'bool'.
#
# @enum: an enumeration type
#
# @array: an array type
#
# @object: an object type (struct or union)
#
# @alternate: an alternate type
#
# @command: a QMP command
#
# @event: a QMP event
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'enum': 'SchemaMetaType',
'data': [ 'builtin', 'enum', 'array', 'object', 'alternate',
'command', 'event' ] }
##
# @SchemaInfoBase
#
# Members common to any @SchemaInfo.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoBase',
'data': { 'name': 'str', 'meta-type': 'SchemaMetaType' } }
##
# @SchemaInfo
#
# @name: the entity's name, inherited from @base.
# Commands and events have the name defined in the QAPI schema.
# Unlike command and event names, type names are not part of
# the wire ABI. Consequently, type names are meaningless
# strings here, although they are still guaranteed unique
# regardless of @meta-type.
#
# All references to other SchemaInfo are by name.
#
# @meta-type: the entity's meta type, inherited from @base.
#
# Additional members depend on the value of @meta-type.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'union': 'SchemaInfo',
'base': 'SchemaInfoBase',
'discriminator': 'meta-type',
'data': {
'builtin': 'SchemaInfoBuiltin',
'enum': 'SchemaInfoEnum',
'array': 'SchemaInfoArray',
'object': 'SchemaInfoObject',
'alternate': 'SchemaInfoAlternate',
'command': 'SchemaInfoCommand',
'event': 'SchemaInfoEvent' } }
##
# @SchemaInfoBuiltin
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'builtin'.
#
# @json-type: the JSON type used for this type on the wire.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoBuiltin',
'data': { 'json-type': 'JSONType' } }
##
# @JSONType
#
# The four primitive and two structured types according to RFC 7159
# section 1, plus 'int' (split off 'number'), plus the obvious top
# type 'value'.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'enum': 'JSONType',
'data': [ 'string', 'number', 'int', 'boolean', 'null',
'object', 'array', 'value' ] }
##
# @SchemaInfoEnum
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'enum'.
#
# @values: the enumeration type's values, in no particular order.
#
# Values of this type are JSON string on the wire.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoEnum',
'data': { 'values': ['str'] } }
##
# @SchemaInfoArray
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'array'.
#
# @element-type: the array type's element type.
#
# Values of this type are JSON array on the wire.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoArray',
'data': { 'element-type': 'str' } }
##
# @SchemaInfoObject
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'object'.
#
# @members: the object type's (non-variant) members, in no particular order.
#
# @tag: #optional the name of the member serving as type tag.
# An element of @members with this name must exist.
#
# @variants: #optional variant members, i.e. additional members that
# depend on the type tag's value. Present exactly when
# @tag is present. The variants are in no particular order,
# and may even differ from the order of the values of the
# enum type of the @tag.
#
# Values of this type are JSON object on the wire.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoObject',
'data': { 'members': [ 'SchemaInfoObjectMember' ],
'*tag': 'str',
'*variants': [ 'SchemaInfoObjectVariant' ] } }
##
# @SchemaInfoObjectMember
#
# An object member.
#
# @name: the member's name, as defined in the QAPI schema.
#
# @type: the name of the member's type.
#
# @default: #optional default when used as command parameter.
# If absent, the parameter is mandatory.
# If present, the value must be null. The parameter is
# optional, and behavior when it's missing is not specified
# here.
# Future extension: if present and non-null, the parameter
# is optional, and defaults to this value.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoObjectMember',
'data': { 'name': 'str', 'type': 'str', '*default': 'any' } }
# @default's type must be null or match @type
##
# @SchemaInfoObjectVariant
#
# The variant members for a value of the type tag.
#
# @case: a value of the type tag.
#
# @type: the name of the object type that provides the variant members
# when the type tag has value @case.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoObjectVariant',
'data': { 'case': 'str', 'type': 'str' } }
##
# @SchemaInfoAlternate
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'alternate'.
#
# @members: the alternate type's members, in no particular order.
# The members' wire encoding is distinct, see
# docs/qapi-code-gen.txt section Alternate types.
#
# On the wire, this can be any of the members.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoAlternate',
'data': { 'members': [ 'SchemaInfoAlternateMember' ] } }
##
# @SchemaInfoAlternateMember
#
# An alternate member.
#
# @type: the name of the member's type.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoAlternateMember',
'data': { 'type': 'str' } }
##
# @SchemaInfoCommand
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'command'.
#
# @arg-type: the name of the object type that provides the command's
# parameters.
#
# @ret-type: the name of the command's result type.
#
# TODO @success-response (currently irrelevant, because it's QGA, not QMP)
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoCommand',
'data': { 'arg-type': 'str', 'ret-type': 'str' } }
##
# @SchemaInfoEvent
#
# Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'event'.
#
# @arg-type: the name of the object type that provides the event's
# parameters.
#
# Since: 2.5
##
{ 'struct': 'SchemaInfoEvent',
'data': { 'arg-type': 'str' } }