scripts/qapi/backend: Clean up create_backend()'s failure mode

create_backend()'s caller catches QAPIError, and returns non-zero exit
code on catch.  The caller's caller passes the exit code to
sys.exit().

create_backend() doesn't care: it reports errors to stderr and
sys.exit()s.

Change it to raise QAPIError instead.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250311065352.992307-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

scripts/qapi/main.py

@@ -31,34 +31,28 @@ def create_backend(path: str) -> QAPIBackend:
 
     module_path, dot, class_name = path.rpartition('.')
     if not dot:
-        print("argument of -B must be of the form MODULE.CLASS",
+        raise QAPIError("argument of -B must be of the form MODULE.CLASS")
-              file=sys.stderr)
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     try:
         mod = import_module(module_path)
     except Exception as ex:
-        print(f"unable to import '{module_path}': {ex}", file=sys.stderr)
+        raise QAPIError(f"unable to import '{module_path}': {ex}") from ex
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     try:
         klass = getattr(mod, class_name)
-    except AttributeError:
+    except AttributeError as ex:
-        print(f"module '{module_path}' has no class '{class_name}'",
+        raise QAPIError(
-              file=sys.stderr)
+            f"module '{module_path}' has no class '{class_name}'") from ex
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     try:
         backend = klass()
     except Exception as ex:
-        print(f"backend '{path}' cannot be instantiated: {ex}",
+        raise QAPIError(
-              file=sys.stderr)
+            f"backend '{path}' cannot be instantiated: {ex}") from ex
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     if not isinstance(backend, QAPIBackend):
-        print(f"backend '{path}' must be an instance of QAPIBackend",
+        raise QAPIError(
-              file=sys.stderr)
+            f"backend '{path}' must be an instance of QAPIBackend")
-        sys.exit(1)
 
     return backend