Add block['var'] accessor

Currently we support iteration on blocks; this patch extends that to make
subscript access work as well.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2019-08-05  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* NEWS: Mention dictionary access on blocks.
	* python/py-block.c (blpy_getitem): New function.
	(block_object_as_mapping): New struct.
	(block_object_type): Use new struct for tp_as_mapping field.

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

2019-08-05  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* python.texi (Blocks In Python): Document dictionary access on blocks.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

2019-08-05  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* gdb.python/py-block.exp: Test dictionary access on blocks.
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Christian Biesinger 2019-08-01 17:22:28 -05:00
parent 4ee94178af
commit 0b27c27d0d
7 changed files with 73 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -224,6 +224,43 @@ blpy_is_static (PyObject *self, void *closure)
Py_RETURN_FALSE;
}
/* Given a string, returns the gdb.Symbol representing that symbol in this
block. If such a symbol does not exist, returns NULL with a Python
exception. */
static PyObject *
blpy_getitem (PyObject *self, PyObject *key)
{
const struct block *block;
BLPY_REQUIRE_VALID (self, block);
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> name = python_string_to_host_string (key);
if (name == nullptr)
return nullptr;
lookup_name_info lookup_name (name.get(), symbol_name_match_type::FULL);
/* We use ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS_WITH_NAME instead of block_lookup_symbol so
that we can look up symbols irrespective of the domain, matching the
iterator. It would be confusing if the iterator returns symbols you
can't find via getitem. */
struct block_iterator iter;
struct symbol *sym = nullptr;
ALL_BLOCK_SYMBOLS_WITH_NAME (block, lookup_name, iter, sym)
{
/* Just stop at the first match */
break;
}
if (sym == nullptr)
{
PyErr_SetObject (PyExc_KeyError, key);
return nullptr;
}
return symbol_to_symbol_object (sym);
}
static void
blpy_dealloc (PyObject *obj)
{
@ -440,6 +477,12 @@ static gdb_PyGetSetDef block_object_getset[] = {
{ NULL } /* Sentinel */
};
static PyMappingMethods block_object_as_mapping = {
NULL,
blpy_getitem,
NULL
};
PyTypeObject block_object_type = {
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT (NULL, 0)
"gdb.Block", /*tp_name*/
@ -453,7 +496,7 @@ PyTypeObject block_object_type = {
0, /*tp_repr*/
0, /*tp_as_number*/
0, /*tp_as_sequence*/
0, /*tp_as_mapping*/
&block_object_as_mapping, /*tp_as_mapping*/
0, /*tp_hash */
0, /*tp_call*/
0, /*tp_str*/