Re: [RFC PATCH] python: add qmp-send program to send raw qmp commands to qemu

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:45:14PM +0200, Damien Hedde wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/5/22 07:41, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:54:55AM +0100, Damien Hedde wrote:
> > > > It takes an input file containing raw qmp commands (concatenated json
> > > > dicts) and send all commands one by one to a qmp server. When one
> > > > command fails, it exits.
> > > > 
> > > > As a convenience, it can also wrap the qemu process to avoid having
> > > > to start qemu in background. When wrapping qemu, the program returns
> > > > only when the qemu process terminates.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > I name that qmp-send as Daniel proposed, maybe qmp-test matches better
> > > > what I'm doing there ?
> > > 
> > > 'qmp-test' is a use case specific name. I think it is better to
> > > name it based on functionality provided rather than anticipated
> > > use case, since use cases evolve over time, hence 'qmp-send'.
> > 
> > Well, it doesn't just send, it also receives.
> > 
> > qmpcat, like netcat and socat?
> > 
> 
> anyone against qmpcat ?

Fine with me[1], though I would have slight preference for 'qmp-cat'
to have a common tab-completion prefix with existing qmp-shell command.

With regards,
Daniel

[1] Especially if it displays a pretty ascii art cat when you pass
    the --help flag ;-P
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