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authorOle Troan <ot@cisco.com>2019-08-23 22:55:18 +0200
committerAndrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>2019-09-03 20:04:13 +0000
commite5ff5a36dd126ee57dca4e0b03da2f7704e0a4f5 (patch)
tree2108baa60e8a697624288fe2c3050be29697bc88 /src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py
parentb6fde4a8bae474c6b73d08d223028f42e396d452 (diff)
api: enforce vla is last and fixed string type
Enforce that variable length fields are the last element of API messages. Add a 'fixed' version of string type, since dealing with multiple variable length strings turned out too painful for the C language bindings. The string type is now: { string name[64]; // NUL terminated C-string. Essentially decays to u8 name[64] string name[]; // Variable length string with embedded len field (vl_api_string_t) }; The latter notation could be made available to other types as well. e.g. { vl_api_address_t addresses[]; } instead of { u32 n_addr; vl_api_address_t addresses[n_addr]; }; Type: fix Change-Id: I18fa17ef47227633752ab50453e8d20a652a9f9b Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py')
-rw-r--r--src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py b/src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py
index 19efc99dae0..c1bc11d4a12 100644
--- a/src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py
+++ b/src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen_c.py
@@ -153,8 +153,15 @@ def typedefs(objs, aliases, filename):
if b.lengthfield:
output += " %s %s[0];\n" % (api2c(b.fieldtype), b.fieldname)
else:
- output += " %s %s[%s];\n" % (api2c(b.fieldtype), b.fieldname,
- b.length)
+ # Fixed length strings decay to nul terminated u8
+ if b.fieldtype == 'string':
+ if b.modern_vla:
+ output += ' {} {};\n'.format(api2c(b.fieldtype), b.fieldname)
+ else:
+ output += ' u8 {}[{}];\n'.format(b.fieldname, b.length)
+ else:
+ output += " %s %s[%s];\n" % (api2c(b.fieldtype), b.fieldname,
+ b.length)
else:
raise ValueError("Error in processing array type %s" % b)