Re: [PULL 04/12] hmp: Simplify qom-set

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 03.06.20 12:43, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * David Hildenbrand (david@redhat.com) wrote:
>> On 02.06.20 11:26, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>>> * Markus Armbruster (armbru@redhat.com) wrote:
>>>> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Simplify qom_set by making it use qmp_qom_set and the JSON parser.
>>>>>
>>>>> (qemu) qom-get /machine smm
>>>>> "auto"
>>>>> (qemu) qom-set /machine smm "auto"
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>>>>> Message-Id: <20200520151108.160598-3-dgilbert@redhat.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>>>>>   With 's'->'S' type change suggested by Paolo and Markus
>>>>
>>>> This is actually more than just simplification, it's disarming a bear
>>>> trap: the string visitor is restricted to a subset of the QAPI types,
>>>> and when you qom-set a property with a type it can't handle, QEMU
>>>> aborts.  I mentioned this in the discussion of possible ways out of the
>>>> qom-get impasse, but missed reraising it in patch review.
>>>>
>>>> A suitably amended commit would be nice, but respinning the PR just for
>>>> that may not be worthwhile.
>>>
>>> A bit late; still as long as we're removing bear traps not adding them.
>>
>> This breaks qom-set for my (virtio-mem) use case:
>>
>> echo "qom-set vm0 requested-size 300M" | sudo nc -U /var/tmp/mon_src
>> QEMU 5.0.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
>> (qemu) qom-set vm0 requested-size 300M
>> Error: Expecting at most one JSON value
> 
> Does qom-set vm0 requested-size 300e6 do the same thing?

The property is defined to be of type "size".

(qemu) qom-set vm0 requested-size 300e6
Error: Parameter 'requested-size' expects uint64

(not sure how "size" and "uint64" are mapped here)

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb