[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] scripts: qmp-shell: add transaction support

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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
(3) Allow users to use 'single quotes' instead of "double quotes"
(4) Add a special transaction( ... ) syntax that lets users
    build up transactional commands using the existing qmp shell
    syntax to define each action.
(5) 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.

John Snow (5):
  scripts: qmp-shell: refactor helpers
  scripts: qmp-shell: add support for [] expressions
  scripts: qmp-shell: allow single-quotes in JSON expressions
  scripts: qmp-shell: add transaction subshell
  scripts: qmp-shell: Add verbose flag

 scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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