Reduce duplication in visibility property management

Adds a couple of new methods to manage visibility property instances to
reduce duplication and encapsulate the implementation slightly better.

The AddVisibilityProperty method is exported as it will be needed by
other packages in follow up commits.

Bug: 155295806
Test: m nothing
Change-Id: Ic1a9bb1e151fc6ae65761344fd210b4e4ba74fbc
diff --git a/android/defaults.go b/android/defaults.go
index fd707a4..6a908ea 100644
--- a/android/defaults.go
+++ b/android/defaults.go
@@ -176,18 +176,18 @@
 	defaultsVisibility := module.defaultsVisibility()
 	module.AddProperties(&base.nameProperties, defaultsVisibility)
 
-	// The defaults_visibility property controls the visibility of a defaults module.
-	base.primaryVisibilityProperty =
-		newVisibilityProperty("defaults_visibility", &defaultsVisibility.Defaults_visibility)
-
 	// Unlike non-defaults modules the visibility property is not stored in m.base().commonProperties.
-	// Instead it is stored in a separate instance of commonProperties created above so use that.
+	// Instead it is stored in a separate instance of commonProperties created above so clear the
+	// existing list of properties.
+	clearVisibilityProperties(module)
+
+	// The defaults_visibility property controls the visibility of a defaults module so it must be
+	// set as the primary property, which also adds it to the list.
+	setPrimaryVisibilityProperty(module, "defaults_visibility", &defaultsVisibility.Defaults_visibility)
+
 	// The visibility property needs to be checked (but not parsed) by the visibility module during
-	// its checking phase and parsing phase.
-	base.visibilityPropertyInfo = []visibilityProperty{
-		base.primaryVisibilityProperty,
-		newVisibilityProperty("visibility", &commonProperties.Visibility),
-	}
+	// its checking phase and parsing phase so add it to the list as a normal property.
+	AddVisibilityProperty(module, "visibility", &commonProperties.Visibility)
 
 	base.module = module
 }
diff --git a/android/module.go b/android/module.go
index 02b2c89..f5cfe66 100644
--- a/android/module.go
+++ b/android/module.go
@@ -611,10 +611,8 @@
 	base.customizableProperties = m.GetProperties()
 
 	// The default_visibility property needs to be checked and parsed by the visibility module during
-	// its checking and parsing phases.
-	base.primaryVisibilityProperty =
-		newVisibilityProperty("visibility", &base.commonProperties.Visibility)
-	base.visibilityPropertyInfo = []visibilityProperty{base.primaryVisibilityProperty}
+	// its checking and parsing phases so make it the primary visibility property.
+	setPrimaryVisibilityProperty(m, "visibility", &base.commonProperties.Visibility)
 }
 
 func InitAndroidArchModule(m Module, hod HostOrDeviceSupported, defaultMultilib Multilib) {
diff --git a/android/package.go b/android/package.go
index 077c4a4..bb5f4e7 100644
--- a/android/package.go
+++ b/android/package.go
@@ -101,10 +101,8 @@
 	module.AddProperties(&module.properties)
 
 	// The default_visibility property needs to be checked and parsed by the visibility module during
-	// its checking and parsing phases.
-	module.primaryVisibilityProperty =
-		newVisibilityProperty("default_visibility", &module.properties.Default_visibility)
-	module.visibilityPropertyInfo = []visibilityProperty{module.primaryVisibilityProperty}
+	// its checking and parsing phases so make it the primary visibility property.
+	setPrimaryVisibilityProperty(module, "default_visibility", &module.properties.Default_visibility)
 
 	return module
 }
diff --git a/android/visibility.go b/android/visibility.go
index 3f04123..ab16444 100644
--- a/android/visibility.go
+++ b/android/visibility.go
@@ -480,3 +480,28 @@
 
 	return rule.Strings()
 }
+
+// Clear the default visibility properties so they can be replaced.
+func clearVisibilityProperties(module Module) {
+	module.base().visibilityPropertyInfo = nil
+}
+
+// Add a property that contains visibility rules so that they are checked for
+// correctness.
+func AddVisibilityProperty(module Module, name string, stringsProperty *[]string) {
+	addVisibilityProperty(module, name, stringsProperty)
+}
+
+func addVisibilityProperty(module Module, name string, stringsProperty *[]string) visibilityProperty {
+	base := module.base()
+	property := newVisibilityProperty(name, stringsProperty)
+	base.visibilityPropertyInfo = append(base.visibilityPropertyInfo, property)
+	return property
+}
+
+// Set the primary visibility property.
+//
+// Also adds the property to the list of properties to be validated.
+func setPrimaryVisibilityProperty(module Module, name string, stringsProperty *[]string) {
+	module.base().primaryVisibilityProperty = addVisibilityProperty(module, name, stringsProperty)
+}