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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp: add test tool for QMP
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

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?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori