On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 02:25:49PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> I should probably document the changes that were made.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com>
> ---
> scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
Since I did some tests[1] when you wrote these improvements to
qmp-shell, the change looks good, FWIW:
Reviewed-By: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com>
[1]
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-04/msg04201.html
> diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> index 65280d2..fa39bf0 100755
> --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> @@ -29,6 +29,41 @@
> # (QEMU) device_add driver=e1000 id=net1
> # {u'return': {}}
> # (QEMU)
> +#
> +# key=value pairs also support Python or JSON object literal subset
> notations,
> +# without spaces. Dictionaries/objects {} are supported as are arrays [].
> +#
> +# example-command arg-name1={'key':'value','obj'={'prop':"value"}}
> +#
> +# Both JSON and Python formatting should work, including both styles of
> +# string literal quotes. Both paradigms of literal values should work,
> +# including null/true/false for JSON and None/True/False for Python.
> +#
> +#
> +# Transactions have the following multi-line format:
> +#
> +# transaction(
> +# action-name1 [ arg-name1=arg1 ] ... [arg-nameN=argN ]
> +# ...
> +# action-nameN [ arg-name1=arg1 ] ... [arg-nameN=argN ]
> +# )
> +#
> +# One line transactions are also supported:
> +#
> +# transaction( action-name1 ... )
> +#
> +# For example:
> +#
> +# (QEMU) transaction(
> +# TRANS> block-dirty-bitmap-add node=drive0 name=bitmap1
> +# TRANS> block-dirty-bitmap-clear node=drive0 name=bitmap0
> +# TRANS> )
> +# {"return": {}}
> +# (QEMU)
> +#
> +# Use the -v and -p options to activate the verbose and pretty-print options,
> +# which will echo back the properly formatted JSON-compliant QMP that is
> being
> +# sent to QEMU, which is useful for debugging and documentation generation.
>
> import qmp
> import json
> --
> 2.1.0
>
>
--
/kashyap
