On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 03:03:11PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:01:37 +0100 > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> > > > > The qmp-shell code assumes the JSON response is only on a single > > line. If the QEMU monitor is configured in "pretty print" mode > > the JSON response can be multi-line. The basic Python JSON APIs > > do not appear to support a streaming mode, so the simple hack > > here is to try parsing a line, and if it fails, then read another > > line, append it, and try parsing again. Keep reading lines until > > we can successfully parse > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> > > --- > > QMP/qmp.py | 16 ++++++++++++---- > > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/QMP/qmp.py b/QMP/qmp.py > > index 36ecc1d..464a01a 100644 > > --- a/QMP/qmp.py > > +++ b/QMP/qmp.py > > @@ -61,10 +61,18 @@ class QEMUMonitorProtocol: > > > > def __json_read(self, only_event=False): > > while True: > > - data = self.__sockfile.readline() > > - if not data: > > - return > > - resp = json.loads(data) > > + data = "" > > + while True: > > + moredata = self.__sockfile.readline() > > + if not moredata: > > + return > > + data = data + moredata > > + try: > > + resp = json.loads(data) > > + break > > + except ValueError: > > + pass > > + > > I'm reluctant about this, because it makes it impossible to detect bad > json from qemu (not that qmp-shell handles this gracefully today).
Yeah, it is slightly unpleasant. > At the same time I can't think of anything simpler than your hack. What > about calling json.loads() when closing } matches the number of opening ones? > QMP responses are always dictionaries. How about making multi-line processing an optional feature, by adding a '-m' flag to qmp-shell. That way we still get error checking by default Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
