Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] chardev: Add -qmp-pretty

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 17.11.2014 um 13:31 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> This series does not add new functionality. Adding a QMP monitor with
> prettily formatted JSON output can be done as follows:
> 
> $ qemu -chardev stdio,id=mon0 -mon chardev=mon0,mode=control,pretty=on
> 
> However, this is rather cumbersome, so this series (its first patch)
> adds a shortcut in the form of the new command line option -qmp-pretty.
> 
> Since the argument given to a monitor command line option (such as -qmp)
> is parsed depending on its prefix and probably also depending on the
> current phase of the moon, this is cleaner than trying to add a "switch"
> to -qmp itself (in the form of "-qmp stdio,pretty=on").
> 
> 
> Patch 3 makes uses of the new option in qemu-iotest 067 to greatly
> increase maintainability of its reference output. Patch 2 extends the
> QMP filter for qemu-iotests so it is able to filter out the QMP version
> object in pretty mode.

Thanks, applied to block-next.

Kevin