qmp: switch to the new error format on the wire

IMPORTANT: this BREAKS QMP's compatibility for the error response.

This commit changes QMP's wire protocol to make use of the simpler
error format introduced by previous commits.

There are two important (and mostly incompatible) changes:

 1. Almost all error classes have been replaced by GenericError. The
    only classes that are still supported for compatibility with
    libvirt are: CommandNotFound, DeviceNotActive, KVMMissingCap,
    DeviceNotFound and MigrationExpected

 2. The 'data' field of the error dictionary is gone

As an example, an error response like:

  { "error": { "class": "DeviceNotRemovable",
               "data": { "device": "virtio0" },
               "desc": "Device 'virtio0' is not removable" } }

Will now be emitted as:

  { "error": { "class": "GenericError",
               "desc": "Device 'virtio0' is not removable" } }

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index aa5716782a..369459069f 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -353,16 +353,26 @@ static void monitor_json_emitter(Monitor *mon, const QObject *data)
     QDECREF(json);
 }
 
+static QDict *build_qmp_error_dict(const QError *err)
+{
+    QObject *obj;
+
+    obj = qobject_from_jsonf("{ 'error': { 'class': %s, 'desc': %p } }",
+                             ErrorClass_lookup[err->err_class],
+                             qerror_human(err));
+
+    return qobject_to_qdict(obj);
+}
+
 static void monitor_protocol_emitter(Monitor *mon, QObject *data)
 {
     QDict *qmp;
 
     trace_monitor_protocol_emitter(mon);
 
-    qmp = qdict_new();
-
     if (!monitor_has_error(mon)) {
         /* success response */
+        qmp = qdict_new();
         if (data) {
             qobject_incref(data);
             qdict_put_obj(qmp, "return", data);
@@ -372,9 +382,7 @@ static void monitor_protocol_emitter(Monitor *mon, QObject *data)
         }
     } else {
         /* error response */
-        qdict_put(mon->error->error, "desc", qerror_human(mon->error));
-        qdict_put(qmp, "error", mon->error->error);
-        QINCREF(mon->error->error);
+        qmp = build_qmp_error_dict(mon->error);
         QDECREF(mon->error);
         mon->error = NULL;
     }