Use the existing readline history function we are utilizing to provide persistent command history across instances of qmp-shell.
This assists entering debug commands across sessions that may be interrupted by QEMU sessions terminating, where the qmp-shell has to be relaunched. Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> --- v3: Hardcoded limit of 1024 lines of history for now, as setting limits in ~/.inputrc does not appear to work (Nir) v2: Adjusted the errors to whine about non-ENOENT errors, but still intercept all errors as non-fatal. Save history atexit() to match bash standard behavior scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell index eccb88a..6ece6e7 100755 --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ import json import ast import readline import sys +import os +import errno +import atexit class QMPCompleter(list): def complete(self, text, state): @@ -109,6 +112,8 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol): self._pretty = pretty self._transmode = False self._actions = list() + self._histfile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), + '.qmp-shell_history') def __get_address(self, arg): """ @@ -132,11 +137,27 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol): def __completer_setup(self): self._completer = QMPCompleter() self._fill_completion() + readline.set_history_length(1024) readline.set_completer(self._completer.complete) readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") # XXX: default delimiters conflict with some command names (eg. query-), # clearing everything as it doesn't seem to matter readline.set_completer_delims('') + try: + readline.read_history_file(self._histfile) + except Exception as e: + if isinstance(e, IOError) and e.errno == errno.ENOENT: + # File not found. No problem. + pass + else: + print "Failed to read history '%s'; %s" % (self._histfile, e) + atexit.register(self.__save_history) + + def __save_history(self): + try: + readline.write_history_file(self._histfile) + except Exception as e: + print "Failed to save history file '%s'; %s" % (self._histfile, e) def __parse_value(self, val): try: -- 2.9.3