From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erU7f-0001b1-R4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:44:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erU7d-0000IX-U4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:44:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56112) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erU7d-0000Hr-OW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:44:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F416049026 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 19:44:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric Blake Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 13:42:41 -0600 Message-Id: <20180301194245.29854-27-eblake@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180301194245.29854-1-eblake@redhat.com> References: <20180301194245.29854-1-eblake@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 26/30] docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands: Update for modular QAPI List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Markus Armbruster From: Markus Armbruster With modular code generation, putting stuff right into qapi-schema.json is a bad idea. Update writing-qmp-commands.txt accordingly. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Message-Id: <20180211093607.27351-26-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau Reviewed-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt b/docs/devel/writing-qmp= -commands.txt index 4f5b24c0c4c..776b3b41ca0 100644 --- a/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt +++ b/docs/devel/writing-qmp-commands.txt @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ start with docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt. Generally speaking, the following steps should be taken in order to writ= e a new QMP command. -1. Write the command's and type(s) specification in the QAPI schema file - (qapi-schema.json in the root source directory) +1. Define the command and any types it needs in the appropriate QAPI + schema module. 2. Write the QMP command itself, which is a regular C function. Preferab= ly, the command should be exported by some QEMU subsystem. But it can als= o be @@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ command carries some meaningful action in QEMU but here= it will just print Our command will be called "hello-world". It takes no arguments, nor doe= s it return any data. -The first step is to add the following line to the bottom of the -qapi-schema.json file: +The first step is defining the command in the appropriate QAPI schema +module. We pick module qapi/misc.json, and add the following line at +the bottom: { 'command': 'hello-world' } @@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ This is very important. No QMP command will be accept= ed in QEMU without proper documentation. There are many examples of such documentation in the schema file already= , but -here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for the qapi-schema.json file: +here goes "hello-world"'s new entry for qapi/misc.json: ## # @hello-world @@ -425,8 +426,7 @@ There are a number of things to be noticed: allocated by the implementation. This is so because the QAPI also gen= erates a function to free its types and it cannot distinguish between dynami= cally or statically allocated strings -6. You have to include the "qmp-commands.h" header file in qemu-timer.c, - otherwise qemu won't build +6. You have to include "qapi/qmp-commands-misc.h" in qemu-timer.c Time to test the new command. Build qemu, run it as described in the "Te= sting" section and try this: --=20 2.14.3