This is useful for testing QMP commands in scripts.
Example usage, combined with 'jq' for filtering the results:
$ ./scripts/qmp/qmp-shell /tmp/qmp qom-list path=/ | jq -r .return[].name
machine
type
chardevs
backend
$
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
* Rewritten using optparse module
---
scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
index 4b9a420..4b7374e 100755
--- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
+++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ def die(msg):
def main():
parser = optparse.OptionParser(description='QMP shell utility')
- parser.set_usage("%prog [options] <UNIX socket path> | <TCP address:port>")
+ parser.set_usage("%prog [options] <UNIX socket path> | <TCP address:port>
[COMMAND [ARG=VALUE]...]")
parser.add_option('-v', action='store_true', dest='verbose',
help='Verbose (echo command sent and received)')
parser.add_option('-p', action='store_true', dest='pretty',
@@ -411,10 +411,11 @@ def main():
default=True, help='Skip negotiate (for qemu-ga)')
opts,args = parser.parse_args()
- if len(args) != 1:
+ if len(args) < 1:
parser.print_help(sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
addr = args[0]
+ cmdargs = args[1:]
try:
if opts.hmp:
@@ -433,10 +434,13 @@ def main():
except qemu.error:
die('Could not connect to %s' % addr)
- qemu.show_banner()
qemu.set_verbosity(opts.verbose)
- while qemu.read_exec_command(qemu.get_prompt()):
- pass
+ if len(cmdargs):
+ qemu.execute_cmdargs(cmdargs)
+ else:
+ qemu.show_banner()
+ while qemu.read_exec_command(qemu.get_prompt()):
+ pass
qemu.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
--
2.9.4
