xref: /openbmc/qemu/include/qapi/error.h (revision 1fd6bb44)
1 /*
2  * QEMU Error Objects
3  *
4  * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
5  *
6  * Authors:
7  *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
8  *
9  * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.  See
10  * the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
11  */
12 #ifndef ERROR_H
13 #define ERROR_H
14 
15 #include "qemu/compiler.h"
16 #include "qapi-types.h"
17 #include <stdbool.h>
18 
19 /**
20  * A class representing internal errors within QEMU.  An error has a ErrorClass
21  * code and a human message.
22  */
23 typedef struct Error Error;
24 
25 /**
26  * Set an indirect pointer to an error given a ErrorClass value and a
27  * printf-style human message.  This function is not meant to be used outside
28  * of QEMU.
29  */
30 void error_set(Error **err, ErrorClass err_class, const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(3, 4);
31 
32 /**
33  * Set an indirect pointer to an error given a ErrorClass value and a
34  * printf-style human message, followed by a strerror() string if
35  * @os_error is not zero.
36  */
37 void error_set_errno(Error **err, int os_error, ErrorClass err_class, const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(4, 5);
38 
39 /**
40  * Same as error_set(), but sets a generic error
41  */
42 #define error_setg(err, fmt, ...) \
43     error_set(err, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__)
44 #define error_setg_errno(err, os_error, fmt, ...) \
45     error_set_errno(err, os_error, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__)
46 
47 /**
48  * Returns true if an indirect pointer to an error is pointing to a valid
49  * error object.
50  */
51 bool error_is_set(Error **err);
52 
53 /*
54  * Get the error class of an error object.
55  */
56 ErrorClass error_get_class(const Error *err);
57 
58 /**
59  * Returns an exact copy of the error passed as an argument.
60  */
61 Error *error_copy(const Error *err);
62 
63 /**
64  * Get a human readable representation of an error object.
65  */
66 const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err);
67 
68 /**
69  * Propagate an error to an indirect pointer to an error.  This function will
70  * always transfer ownership of the error reference and handles the case where
71  * dst_err is NULL correctly.  Errors after the first are discarded.
72  */
73 void error_propagate(Error **dst_err, Error *local_err);
74 
75 /**
76  * Free an error object.
77  */
78 void error_free(Error *err);
79 
80 #endif
81