This change was done almost entirely automatically using the script
below. This uses the OCaml lexer to read the source files and extract
the strings and locations. Strings which are "candidates" (in this
case, longer than 3 lines) are replaced in the output with quoted
string literals.
Since the OCaml lexer is used, it already substitutes all escape
sequences correctly. I diffed the output of the generator and it is
identical after this change, except for UUIDs, which change because of
how Utils.stable_uuid is implemented.
Thanks: Nicolas Ojeda Bar
$ ocamlfind opt -package unix,compiler-libs.common find_strings.ml \
-o find_strings.opt -linkpkg
$ for f in $( git ls-files -- \*.ml ) ; do ./find_strings.opt $f ; done
open Printf
let read_whole_file path =
let buf = Buffer.create 16384 in
let chan = open_in path in
let maxlen = 16384 in
let b = Bytes.create maxlen in
let rec loop () =
let r = input chan b 0 maxlen in
if r > 0 then (
Buffer.add_substring buf (Bytes.to_string b) 0 r;
loop ()
)
in
loop ();
close_in chan;
Buffer.contents buf
let count_chars c str =
let count = ref 0 in
for i = 0 to String.length str - 1 do
if c = String.unsafe_get str i then incr count
done;
!count
let subs = ref []
let consider_string str loc =
let nr_lines = count_chars '\n' str in
if nr_lines > 3 then
subs := (str, loc) :: !subs
let () =
Lexer.init ();
let filename = Sys.argv.(1) in
let content = read_whole_file filename in
let lexbuf = Lexing.from_string content in
let rec loop () =
let token = Lexer.token lexbuf in
(match token with
| Parser.EOF -> ();
| STRING (s, loc, sopt) ->
consider_string s loc; (* sopt? *)
loop ();
| token ->
loop ();
)
in
loop ();
(* The list of subs is already reversed, which is convenient
* because we must the file substitutions in reverse order.
*)
let subs = !subs in
let new_content = ref content in
List.iter (
fun (str, loc) ->
let { Location.loc_start = { pos_cnum = p1 };
loc_end = { pos_cnum = p2 } } = loc in
let len = String.length !new_content in
let before = String.sub !new_content 0 (p1-1) in
let after = String.sub !new_content (p2+1) (len - p2 - 1) in
new_content := before ^ "{|" ^ str ^ "|}" ^ after
) subs;
let new_content = !new_content in
if content <> new_content then (
(* Update the file in place. *)
let new_filename = filename ^ ".new"
and backup_filename = filename ^ ".bak" in
let chan = open_out new_filename in
fprintf chan "%s" new_content;
close_out chan;
Unix.rename filename backup_filename;
Unix.rename new_filename filename
)
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
If you have a struct containing ‘field’, eg:
type t = { field : int }
then previously to pattern-match on this type, eg. in function
parameters, you had to write:
let f { field = field } =
(* ... use field ... *)
In OCaml >= 3.12 it is possible to abbreviate cases where the field
being matched and the variable being bound have the same name, so now
you can just write:
let f { field } =
(* ... use field ... *)
(Similarly for a field prefixed by a Module name you can use
‘{ Module.field }’ instead of ‘{ Module.field = field }’).
This style is widely used inside the OCaml compiler sources, and is
briefer than the long form, so it makes sense to use it. Furthermore
there was one place in virt-dib where we are already using this new
style, so the old code did not compile on OCaml < 3.12.
See also:
https://forge.ocamlcore.org/docman/view.php/77/112/leroy-cug2010.pdf
The new module ‘Std_utils’ contains only functions which are pure
OCaml and depend only on the OCaml stdlib. Therefore these functions
may be used by the generator.
The new module is moved to ‘common/mlstdutils’.
This also removes the "<stdlib>" hack, and the code which copied the
library around.
Also ‘Guestfs_config’, ‘Libdir’ and ‘StringMap’ modules are moved
since these are essentially the same.
The bulk of this change is just updating files which use
‘open Common_utils’ to add ‘open Std_utils’ where necessary.
Previously we had lots of types like String, Device, StringList,
DeviceList, etc. where Device was just a String with magical
properties (but only inside the daemon), and DeviceList was just a
list of Device strings.
Replace these with some simple top-level types:
String
StringList
and move the magic into a subtype.
The change is mechanical, for example:
old ---> new
FileIn "filename" String (FileIn, "filename")
DeviceList "devices" StringList (Device, "devices")
Handling BufferIn is sufficiently different from a plain String
throughout all the bindings that it still uses a top-level type.
(Compare with FileIn/FileOut where the only difference is in the
protocol, but the bindings can uniformly treat it as a plain String.)
There is no semantic change, and the generated files are identical
except for a minor change in the (deprecated) Perl
%guestfs_introspection table.
Run the following command over the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[01][0-9])-2016/$1-2017/g' `git ls-files`
(Thanks Rich for the perl snippet, as used in past years.)
This mostly mechanical change moves all of the libguestfs API
lists of functions into a struct in the Actions module.
It also adds filter functions to be used elsewhere to get
subsets of these functions.
Original code Replacement
all_functions actions
daemon_functions actions |> daemon_functions
non_daemon_functions actions |> non_daemon_functions
external_functions actions |> external_functions
internal_functions actions |> internal_functions
documented_functions actions |> documented_functions
fish_functions actions |> fish_functions
*_functions_sorted ... replacement as above ... |> sort
Look for use of external_functions and fish_functions and replace with
use of external_functions_sorted and fish_functions_sorted where
possible. This ensures that the output of the generator is sorted as
far as possible.
I also checked for uses of internal_functions and documented_functions
but those are not used. The *_sorted versions are always used
instead.
The visibility field in action replaces in_fish, in_docs and internal.
The defined types are:
VPublic:
A public API. This is exported and documented in all language
bindings, and in guestfish.
VStateTest:
A public API which queries the library state machine. It is exported
and documented in all language bindings, but not guestfish.
VBindTest:
An internal API used only for testing language bindings. It is
guarded by GUESTFS_PRIVATE in the C api, but exported by all other
language bindings as it is required for testing. If language
bindings offer any way to guard use of these apis, that mechanism
should be used. It is not documented anywhere.
VDebug:
A debugging API. It is exported by all language bindings, and in
guestfish, but is not documented anywhere.
VInternal:
An internal-only API. It is guarded by GUESTFS_PRIVATE in the C api,
and not exported at all in any other language binding. It is not
documented anywhere.
This is a simple renaming of the files/modules.
Note that in OCaml, module names are derived from filenames by
capitalizing the first letter. Thus the old module names had the form
"Generator_api_versions". The new modules names have the form
"Api_versions".
