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| author |   Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> | 2015-05-04 09:05:12 -0600 |
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| committer |   Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-05-05 18:39:00 +0200 |
| commit | 7b1b98c420355ccea98d8bd55c9193ee6b7cef97 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ceec0f9a47f2526cbc8feadf1d0faff480525af /scripts/qapi.py | |
| parent | qapi: Rename anonymous union type in test (diff) | |
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qapi: Document new 'alternate' meta-type
The next patch will quit special-casing "'union':'Foo',
'discriminator':{}" and instead use "'alternate':'Foo'".
Separating docs from implementation makes it easier to focus
on wording without holding up code. In particular, making
alternate a separate type makes for a nice type hierarchy:
/-------- meta-type ------\
/ | \
simple types alternate complex types
| | | |
built-in enum type(struct) union
| \ / / \
numeric string simple flat
A later patch will then clean up 'type' vs. 'struct'
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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