[PATCH v6 05/36] qapi: Prefer explicit relative imports

[John Snow]

All of the QAPI include statements are changed to be package-aware, as
explicit relative imports.

A quirk of Python packages is that the name of the package exists only
*outside* of the package. This means that to a module inside of the qapi
folder, there is inherently no such thing as the "qapi" package. The
reason these imports work is because the "qapi" package exists in the
context of the caller -- the execution shim, where sys.path includes a
directory that has a 'qapi' folder in it.

When we write "from qapi import sibling", we are NOT referencing the folder
'qapi', but rather "any package named qapi in sys.path". If you should
so happen to have a 'qapi' package in your path, it will use *that*
package.

When we write "from .sibling import foo", we always reference explicitly
our sibling module; guaranteeing consistency in *where* we are importing
these modules from.

This can be useful when working with virtual environments and packages
in development mode. In development mode, a package is installed as a
series of symlinks that forwards to your same source files. The problem
arises because code quality checkers will follow "import qapi.x" to the
"installed" version instead of the sibling file and -- even though they
are the same file -- they have different module paths, and this causes
cyclic import problems, false positive type mismatch errors, and more.

It can also be useful when dealing with hierarchical packages, e.g. if
we allow qemu.core.qmp, qemu.qapi.parser, etc.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/qapi/commands.py   |  4 ++--
 scripts/qapi/events.py     |  8 ++++----
 scripts/qapi/expr.py       |  4 ++--
 scripts/qapi/gen.py        |  4 ++--
 scripts/qapi/introspect.py |  8 ++++----
 scripts/qapi/main.py       | 14 +++++++-------
 scripts/qapi/parser.py     |  4 ++--
 scripts/qapi/schema.py     |  8 ++++----
 scripts/qapi/types.py      |  6 +++---
 scripts/qapi/visit.py      |  6 +++---
 10 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/commands.py b/scripts/qapi/commands.py
index 6e6fc94a14b..1f43a0a34ef 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/commands.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/commands.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 """
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.gen import QAPIGenCCode, QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
+from .common import *
+from .gen import QAPIGenCCode, QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
 
 
 def gen_command_decl(name, arg_type, boxed, ret_type):
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/events.py b/scripts/qapi/events.py
index b544af5a1ce..04672724388 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/events.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/events.py
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 """
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
-from qapi.schema import QAPISchemaEnumMember
-from qapi.types import gen_enum, gen_enum_lookup
+from .common import *
+from .gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
+from .schema import QAPISchemaEnumMember
+from .types import gen_enum, gen_enum_lookup
 
 
 def build_event_send_proto(name, arg_type, boxed):
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/expr.py b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
index a15c1fb4742..bb4dc55f56f 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/expr.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/expr.py
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 
 import re
 from collections import OrderedDict
-from qapi.common import c_name
-from qapi.error import QAPISemError
+from .common import c_name
+from .error import QAPISemError
 
 
 # Names must be letters, numbers, -, and _.  They must start with letter,
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/gen.py b/scripts/qapi/gen.py
index dc7b94aa115..fc57fdca5b9 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/gen.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/gen.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 import re
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.schema import QAPISchemaVisitor
+from .common import *
+from .schema import QAPISchemaVisitor
 
 
 class QAPIGen:
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/introspect.py b/scripts/qapi/introspect.py
index 5907b09cd57..6c82d9d95f5 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/introspect.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/introspect.py
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 """
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.gen import QAPISchemaMonolithicCVisitor
-from qapi.schema import (QAPISchemaArrayType, QAPISchemaBuiltinType,
-                         QAPISchemaType)
+from .common import *
+from .gen import QAPISchemaMonolithicCVisitor
+from .schema import (QAPISchemaArrayType, QAPISchemaBuiltinType,
+                     QAPISchemaType)
 
 
 def _make_tree(obj, ifcond, features, extra=None):
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/main.py b/scripts/qapi/main.py
index f3003065d8e..25190ac0331 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/main.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/main.py
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@
 import sys
 from typing import Optional
 
-from qapi.commands import gen_commands
-from qapi.error import QAPIError
-from qapi.events import gen_events
-from qapi.introspect import gen_introspect
-from qapi.schema import QAPISchema
-from qapi.types import gen_types
-from qapi.visit import gen_visit
+from .commands import gen_commands
+from .error import QAPIError
+from .events import gen_events
+from .introspect import gen_introspect
+from .schema import QAPISchema
+from .types import gen_types
+from .visit import gen_visit
 
 
 def invalid_char(prefix: str) -> Optional[str]:
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/parser.py b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
index 9d1a3e2eea9..7298f5dbd14 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/parser.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/parser.py
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 import re
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-from qapi.error import QAPIParseError, QAPISemError
-from qapi.source import QAPISourceInfo
+from .error import QAPIParseError, QAPISemError
+from .source import QAPISourceInfo
 
 
 class QAPISchemaParser:
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
index d1307ec661c..676185d1a71 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 import re
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-from qapi.common import c_name, pointer_suffix
-from qapi.error import QAPIError, QAPISemError
-from qapi.expr import check_exprs
-from qapi.parser import QAPISchemaParser
+from .common import c_name, pointer_suffix
+from .error import QAPIError, QAPISemError
+from .expr import check_exprs
+from .parser import QAPISchemaParser
 
 
 class QAPISchemaEntity:
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/types.py b/scripts/qapi/types.py
index 3640f17cd67..ca9a5aacb39 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/types.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/types.py
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 # See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 """
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
-from qapi.schema import QAPISchemaEnumMember, QAPISchemaObjectType
+from .common import *
+from .gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
+from .schema import QAPISchemaEnumMember, QAPISchemaObjectType
 
 
 # variants must be emitted before their container; track what has already
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/visit.py b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
index cdabc5fa283..7850f6e8480 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/visit.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 """
 
-from qapi.common import *
-from qapi.gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
-from qapi.schema import QAPISchemaObjectType
+from .common import *
+from .gen import QAPISchemaModularCVisitor, ifcontext
+from .schema import QAPISchemaObjectType
 
 
 def gen_visit_decl(name, scalar=False):
-- 
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