This patch does three things:
1. Record the current namespace context in pending_xrefs so it can be
used for link resolution later,
2. Pass that recorded namespace context to find_obj() when resolving a
reference, and
3. Wildly and completely rewrite find_obj().
cross-reference support is expanded to tolerate the presence or absence
of either namespace or module, and to cope with the presence or absence
of contextual information for either.
References now work like this:
1. If the explicit reference target is recorded in the domain's object
registry, we link to that target and stop looking. We do this lookup
regardless of how fully qualified the target is, which allows direct
references to modules (which don't have a module component to their
names) or direct references to definitions that may or may not belong
to a namespace or module.
2. If contextual information is available from qapi:namespace or
qapi:module directives, try using those components to find a direct
match to the implied target name.
3. If both prior lookups fail, generate a series of regular expressions
looking for wildcard matches in order from most to least
specific. Any explicitly provided components (namespace, module)
*must* match exactly, but both contextual and entirely omitted
components are allowed to differ from the search result. Note that if
more than one result is found, Sphinx will emit a warning (a build
error for QEMU) and list all of the candidate references.
The practical upshot is that in the large majority of cases, namespace
and module information is not required when creating simple `references`
to definitions from within the same context -- even when identical
definitions exist in other contexts.
Even when using simple `references` from elsewhere in the QEMU
documentation manual, explicit namespace info is not required if there
is only one definition by that name.
Disambiguation *will* be required from outside of the QAPI documentation
when referencing e.g. block-core definitions, which are shared between
QEMU QMP and the QEMU Storage Daemon. In that case, there are two
options:
A: References can be made partially or fully explicit,
e.g. `QMP:block-dirty-bitmap-add` will link to the QEMU version of
the definition, while `QSD:block-dirty-bitmap-add` would link to the
QSD version.
B: If all of the references in a document are intended to go to the same
place, you can insert a "qapi:namespace:: QMP" directive to influence
the fuzzy-searching for later references.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250313044312.189276-8-jsnow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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