Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp: add test tool for QMP

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:35:51 -0600
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> On 11/07/2011 10:30 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:09:55 -0600
> > Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/07/2011 10:08 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>> On Mon,  7 Nov 2011 09:11:15 -0600
> >>> Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I wrote this quickly to aid in testing.  It's similar to qmp-shell with a few
> >>>> important differences:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1) It is not interactive.  That makes it useful for scripting.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2) qmp-shell:
> >>>>
> >>>> (QEMU) set_password protocol=vnc password=foo
> >>>>
> >>>> 3) qmp:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ qmp set_password --protocol=vnc --password=foo
> >>>>
> >>>> 4) Extensible, git-style interface.  If an invalid command name is passed, it
> >>>>      will try to exec qmp-$1.
> >>>>
> >>>> 5) It attempts to pretty print the JSON responses in a shell friendly format
> >>>>      such that tools can work with the output.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hope others will also find it useful.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino<lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> BTW, one thing I'd like to try at some point soon is to generate man pages from
> >> qapi-schema.json.  If you notice in the script, it does online help by invoking man.
> >
> > Yes, I did notice it. I didn't comment on it because I imagined you had plans
> > about it.
> >
> > PS: I don't think this needs to go through my tree.
> 
> What do you want to do with qmp.py?  Do you feel comfortable installing it in 
> $PYTHONPATH and treating it as a supported API?

I probably don't. I coded it as demo in the very beginning of QMP, maybe
we should first define what we expect from a QMP Python class then we
can see whether it fits or not... I feel it needs to be revamped.