[PATCH] qom: Support JSON in user_creatable_parse_str()

[Kevin Wolf]

Support JSON for --object in all tools and in HMP object_add in the same
way as it is supported in qobject_input_visitor_new_str().

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
---
Based-on: <20210311144811.313451-1-kw...@redhat.com>

 qom/object_interfaces.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qom/object_interfaces.c b/qom/object_interfaces.c
index 62d7db7629..f5ea84b6c4 100644
--- a/qom/object_interfaces.c
+++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c
@@ -295,25 +295,35 @@ static void user_creatable_print_help_from_qdict(QDict 
*args)
 ObjectOptions *user_creatable_parse_str(const char *optarg, Error **errp)
 {
     ERRP_GUARD();
-    QDict *args;
+    QObject *obj;
     bool help;
     Visitor *v;
     ObjectOptions *options;
 
-    args = keyval_parse(optarg, "qom-type", &help, errp);
-    if (*errp) {
-        return NULL;
-    }
-    if (help) {
-        user_creatable_print_help_from_qdict(args);
-        qobject_unref(args);
-        return NULL;
+    if (optarg[0] == '{') {
+        obj = qobject_from_json(optarg, errp);
+        if (!obj) {
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        v = qobject_input_visitor_new(obj);
+    } else {
+        QDict *args = keyval_parse(optarg, "qom-type", &help, errp);
+        if (*errp) {
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        if (help) {
+            user_creatable_print_help_from_qdict(args);
+            qobject_unref(args);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+
+        obj = QOBJECT(args);
+        v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(obj);
     }
 
-    v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(QOBJECT(args));
     visit_type_ObjectOptions(v, NULL, &options, errp);
     visit_free(v);
-    qobject_unref(args);
+    qobject_unref(obj);
 
     return options;
 }
-- 
2.30.2