[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 16/17] QMP: Fix python helper /wrt long return strings

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 23 May 2010 12:59:29 +0200
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:

> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> Remove the arbitrary limitation of 1024 characters per return string and
> read complete lines instead. Required for device_show.

 Thanks for both fixes, I have started working on a better version of this
script that mimics better the user monitor but it's only half done.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
>  QMP/qmp.py |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/QMP/qmp.py b/QMP/qmp.py
> index d9da603..4062f84 100644
> --- a/QMP/qmp.py
> +++ b/QMP/qmp.py
> @@ -63,10 +63,14 @@ class QEMUMonitorProtocol:
>  
>      def __json_read(self):
>          try:
> -            return json.loads(self.sock.recv(1024))
> +            while True:
> +                line = json.loads(self.sockfile.readline())
> +                if not 'event' in line:
> +                    return line
>          except ValueError:
>              return
>  
>      def __init__(self, filename):
>          self.filename = filename
>          self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> +        self.sockfile = self.sock.makefile()