Am 11.02.2014 um 02:39 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben: > On Wed, 01/29 12:17, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > qmp-shell hides the QMP wire protocol JSON encoding from the user. Most > > of the time this is helpful and makes the command-line human-friendly. > > > > Some QMP commands take a dict as an argument. In order to express this > > we need to revert back to JSON notation. > > > > This patch allows JSON dict arguments in qmp-shell so commands like > > blockdev-add and nbd-server-start can be invoked: > > > > (QEMU) blockdev-add options={"driver":"file","id":"drive1",...} > > > > Note that spaces are not allowed since str.split() is used to break up > > the command-line arguments first. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > > --- > > While this is definitely useful, just wondering if it is more friendly to > allow > passing options as command line options do: > > (QEMU) blockdev-add options.driver=file options.id=drive1
In fact, I have been considering the brace syntax even for the command line, because the dot syntax gets a bit too verbose when you have a lot of nested dicts. The reason why I didn't do it is that it would introduce more special characters. >From a usability POV, it might be best to have both. Kevin