papi: vla list of fixed strings

Handle a variable length array of fixed strings.
Like:
fixed_string = VPPType("fixed_string", [["string", "data", 32]])
s = VPPType("string_vla", [["u32", "length"], ["fixed_string", "services", 0, "length"]])

Previously instead of packing and unpacking as strings, exception packed as u8 instead
of list.

Type: fix
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>
Change-Id: I501a8a4755828042e1539fd5a54eacec21c5e364
Signed-off-by: Ole Troan <ot@cisco.com>

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_serializer.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_serializer.py
index eee38f00632..ab6ce81b64b 100755
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_serializer.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/tests/test_vpp_serializer.py
@@ -426,6 +426,32 @@ class TestAddType(unittest.TestCase):
         nt, size = s.unpack(b)
         self.assertEqual(len(b), size)
 
+        # Try same with VLA u8
+        byte_array = [b"\0"] * (10)
+        vla_u8 = VPPType("vla_u8", [["u8", "length"], ["u8", "data", 0, "length"]])
+        b = vla_u8.pack({"length": len(byte_array), "data": byte_array})
+        nt, size = vla_u8.unpack(b)
+
+        # VLA Array of fixed length strings
+        fixed_string = VPPType("fixed_string", [["string", "data", 32]])
+        s = VPPType(
+            "string_vla", [["u32", "length"], ["fixed_string", "services", 0, "length"]]
+        )
+
+        string_list = [{"data": "foobar1"}, {"data": "foobar2"}]
+        b = s.pack({"length": 2, "services": string_list})
+        nt, size = s.unpack(b)
+
+        # Try same with u8
+        fixed_u8 = VPPType("fixed_u8", [["u8", "data", 32]])
+        s = VPPType(
+            "u8_vla", [["u32", "length"], ["fixed_string", "services", 0, "length"]]
+        )
+
+        u8_list = [{"data": "foobar1"}, {"data": "foobar2"}]
+        b = s.pack({"length": 2, "services": u8_list})
+        nt, size = s.unpack(b)
+
     def test_message(self):
         foo = VPPMessage(
             "foo",
diff --git a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
index d7da457ea1a..d8461398765 100644
--- a/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
+++ b/src/vpp-api/python/vpp_papi/vpp_serializer.py
@@ -304,9 +304,8 @@ class VLAList(Packer):
                     len(lst), kwargs[self.length_field]
                 )
             )
-
         # u8 array
-        if self.packer.size == 1:
+        if self.packer.size == 1 and self.field_type == "u8":
             if isinstance(lst, list):
                 return b"".join(lst)
             return bytes(lst)
@@ -321,7 +320,7 @@ class VLAList(Packer):
         total = 0
 
         # u8 array
-        if self.packer.size == 1:
+        if self.packer.size == 1 and self.field_type == "u8":
             if result[self.index] == 0:
                 return b"", 0
             p = BaseTypes("u8", result[self.index])
@@ -618,7 +617,6 @@ class VPPType(Packer):
 
                 self.packers.append(p)
                 size += p.size
-
         self.size = size
         self.tuple = collections.namedtuple(name, self.fields, rename=True)
         types[name] = self