Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/qmp/qom-set: Allow setting integer value

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 10/3/20 1:33 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Jonatan,
> 
> On 10/2/20 10:52 PM, Jonatan Pålsson wrote:
>> If the value appears to be an integer, parse it as such.
>>
>> This allows the following:
>>
>>      qmp/qom-set -s ~/qmp.sock sensor.temperature 20000
> 
> Maybe instead:
> 
> Fix the following error:
> 
>    $ scripts/qmp/qom-set -s ~/qmp.sock sensor.temperature 20000
>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "scripts/qmp/qom-set", line 66, in <module>
>        print(srv.command('qom-set', path=path, property=prop, value=value))
>      File "scripts/qmp/../../python/qemu/qmp.py", line 274, in command
>        raise QMPResponseError(ret)
>    qemu.qmp.QMPResponseError: Invalid parameter type for 'temperature',
> expected: integer
> 

No, this is just relaying the error that QMP returned. QMP is telling 
you it doesn't want string data for this parameter. His diagnosis of the 
problem is accurate.

>>
>> .. where sensor is a tmp105 device, and temperature is an integer
>> property.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonatan Pålsson <jonatan.p@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   scripts/qmp/qom-set | 5 ++++-
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qom-set b/scripts/qmp/qom-set
>> index 240a78187f..49eebe4924 100755
>> --- a/scripts/qmp/qom-set
>> +++ b/scripts/qmp/qom-set
>> @@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ if len(args) > 1:
>>           path, prop = args[0].rsplit('.', 1)
>>       except:
>>           usage_error("invalid format for path/property/value")
>> -    value = args[1]
>> +    try:
>> +        value = int(args[1])
> 
> Maybe 'long' is safer?
> 

This is a Python patch, what's a "long"?

>> +    except ValueError:
>> +        value = args[1]
>>   else:
>>       usage_error("not enough arguments")
>>   
>>
>