On Mon, 04 May 2015 15:24:02 -0400 John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ping > (I should've CC'd Luiz to begin with ...) > > Eric's given this series the once over and Kashyap has tested it, so it > should in theory be good to go. I lost track of it. Is v4 a new posting? > > On 04/29/2015 03:14 PM, John Snow wrote: > > The qmp-shell is a little rudimentary, but it can be hacked > > to give us some transactional support without too much difficulty. > > > > (1) Prep. > > (2) Add support for serializing json arrays and > > improve the robustness of QMP parsing > > (3) Add a special transaction( ... ) syntax that lets users > > build up transactional commands using the existing qmp shell > > syntax to define each action. > > (4) Add a verbose flag to display generated QMP commands. > > > > The parsing is not as robust as one would like, but this suffices > > without adding a proper parser. > > > > Design considerations: > > > > (1) Try not to disrupt the existing design of the qmp-shell. The existing > > API is not disturbed. > > (2) Pick a "magic token" such that it could not be confused for legitimate > > QMP/JSON syntax. Parentheses are used for this purpose. > > > > For convenience, this branch is available at: > > https://github.com/jnsnow/qemu.git branch qmp-shell++ > > This version is tagged qmp-shell++-v4. > > > > === > > v++ > > === > > > > - Use the AST to allow 'true', 'false' and 'null' within QMP expressions > > - Fix a bunch of stupid junk I broke in v2, apparently. > > > > === > > v3: > > === > > > > - Folding in hotfix from list (import ast) > > > > === > > v2: > > === > > > > - Squash patches 2 & 3: > > - Remove wholesale replacement of single quotes, in favor of try blocks > > that attempt to parse as pure JSON, then as Python. > > - Factored out the value parser block to accomplish the above. > > - Allow both true/True and false/False for values. > > - Fix typo in patch 3 cover letter. (was patch 4.) > > > > John Snow (4): > > scripts: qmp-shell: refactor helpers > > scripts: qmp-shell: Expand support for QMP expressions > > scripts: qmp-shell: add transaction subshell > > scripts: qmp-shell: Add verbose flag > > > > scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 147 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > > 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) > > >