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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/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.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/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py')
-rw-r--r--src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py
index a9d2c8186bc..d7669365ce8 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/vapi/vapi_json_parser.py
@@ -177,12 +177,15 @@ class Message(object):
p = field_class(field_name=field[1],
field_type=field_type)
elif l == 3:
- if field[2] == 0:
+ if field[2] == 0 and field[0] != 'string':
raise ParseError(
"While parsing message `%s': variable length "
"array `%s' doesn't have reference to member "
"containing the actual length" % (
name, field[1]))
+ if field[0] == 'string' and field[2] > 0:
+ field_type = json_parser.lookup_type_like_id('u8')
+
p = field_class(
field_name=field[1],
field_type=field_type,