John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes:
> On 2/5/19 8:49 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> Commit fcfab7541 ("qmp-shell: learn to send commands with quoted
>> arguments") introduces the usage of Python 'shlex' to handle quoted
>> arguments, but it accidentally broke generation of nested JSON
>> structs.
>>
>> shlex drops quotes, which breaks parsing of the nested struct.
>>
>> cmd='blockdev-create job-id="job0 foo"
>> options={"driver":"qcow2","size":16384,"file":{"driver":"file","filename":"foo.qcow2"}}'
>>
>> shlex.split(cmd)
>> ['blockdev-create',
>> 'job-id=job0 foo',
>> 'options={driver:qcow2,size:16384,file:{driver:file,filename:foo.qcow2}}']
>>
>> Replace with a regexp to split while respecting quoted strings and
>> preserving quotes:
>>
>> re.findall(r'''(?:[^\s"']|"(?:\\.|[^"])*"|'(?:\\.|[^'])*')+''', cmd)
>> ['blockdev-create',
>> 'job-id="job0 foo"',
>>
>> 'options={"driver":"qcow2","size":16384,"file":{"driver":"file","filename":"foo.qcow2"}}']
>>
>> Fixes: fcfab7541 ("qmp-shell: learn to send commands with quoted arguments")
>> Reported-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
>
> Hi, did this get misplaced? Would be nice to have back for 4.0 release.
Eduardo, Cleber, I think this one's for you.
