tools/unittests/kdoc-test-schema.yaml

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# Copyright(c) 2026: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>.

# KDoc Test File Schema

# This schema contains objects and properties needed to run kernel-doc
# self-tests.

$schema: "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"

tests:
  type: array
  minItems: 1
  description: |
    A list of kernel-doc tests.

  properties:
    type: object
    properties:
      name:
        type: string
        description: |
          Test name. Should be an unique identifier within the schema.
          Don't prepend it with "test", as the dynamic test creation will
          do it.

      description:
        type: string
        description: |
          Test description

      source:
        type: string
        description: |
          C source code that should be parsed by kernel-doc.

      fname:
        type: string
        description: |
          The filename that contains the element.
          When placing real testcases, please use here the name of
          the C file (or header) from where the source code was picked.

      exports:
        type: array
        items: { type: string }
        description: |
          A list of export identifiers that are expected when parsing source.

      expected:
        type: array
        minItems: 1
        description: |
          A list of expected values. This list consists on objects to check
          both kdoc_parser and/or kdoc_output objects.

        items:
          type: object
          properties:
            #
            #  kdoc_item
            #
            kdoc_item:
              type: object
              description: |
                Object expected to represent the C source code after parsed
                by tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_parser.py KernelDoc class.
                See tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_item.py for its contents.

              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                  description: |
                    The name of the identifier (function name, struct name, etc).
                type:
                  type: string
                  description: |
                    Type of the object, as filled by kdoc_parser. can be:
                    - enum
                    - typedef
                    - union
                    - struct
                    - var
                    - function
                declaration_start_line:
                  type: integer
                  description: |
                    The line number where the kernel-doc markup started.
                    The first line of the code is line number 1.
                sections:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: { type: string }
                  description: |
                    Sections inside the kernel-doc markups:
                    - "description"
                    - "return"
                    - any other part of the markup that starts with "something:"
                sections_start_lines:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: { type: integer }
                  description: |
                    a list of section names and the starting line of it.
                parameterlist:
                  type: array
                  items: { type: string }
                  description: |
                    Ordered list of parameter names.

                parameterdesc_start_lines:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: { type: integer }
                  description: |
                    Mapping from parameter name to the line where its
                    description starts.
                parameterdescs:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: { type: string }
                  description: |
                    Mapping from parameter name to its description.

                parametertypes:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: { type: string }
                  description: |
                    Mapping from parameter name to its type.

                other_stuff:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties: {}
                  description: |
                    Extra properties that will be stored at the item.
                    Should match what kdoc_output expects.

              required:
                - name
                - type
                - declaration_start_line

            rst:
              type: string
              description: |
                The expected output for RestOutput class.

            man:
              type: string
              description: |
                The expected output for ManOutput class.

        anyOf:
          required: kdoc_item
          required: source

    required:
      - name
      - fname
      - expected