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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp-shell: fix pretty printing of JSON response
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp-shell: fix pretty printing of JSON responses |
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Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:02:03 -0700 |
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On 02/22/2016 10:02 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Pretty printing of JSON responses is important to be able
> to understand large responses from query commands in
> particular, eg
>
> (QEMU) query-chardev
> { u'return': [ { u'filename': u'vc',
> u'frontend-open': False,
> u'label': u'parallel0'},
> { u'filename': u'vc',
> u'frontend-open': True,
> u'label': u'serial0'},
> { u'filename': u'unix:/tmp/qemp,server',
> u'frontend-open': True,
> u'label': u'compat_monitor0'}]}
>
> Unfortunately this was broken during the addition of
> the verbose flag in
>
> commit 1ceca07e48ead0dd2e41576c81d40e6a91cafefd
> Author: John Snow <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed Apr 29 15:14:04 2015 -0400
>
> scripts: qmp-shell: Add verbose flag
>
> This is because that change turned the python data
> structure into a formatted JSON string before the
> pretty print was given it. So we're just pretty
> printing a string, which is a no-op.
>
> This fixes pretty printing of the command responses
> and as an added benefit it will also pretty print
> command arguments in verbose mode
>
> (QEMU) object-add qom-type=secret id=sec0 props={"data":"123456"}
> { 'arguments': { 'id': 'sec0',
> 'props': { u'data': u'123456'},
> 'qom-type': 'secret'},
> 'execute': 'object-add'}
> { u'return': { }}
That's an odd mix of regular and Unicode strings. Any ideas why it is
happening? But the patch is a strict improvement, so:
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> ---
> scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> index 7a402ed..15bbc5e 100755
> --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> @@ -231,10 +231,10 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol):
> return qmpcmd
>
> def _print(self, qmp):
> - jsobj = json.dumps(qmp)
> if self._pp is not None:
> - self._pp.pprint(jsobj)
> + self._pp.pprint(qmp)
> else:
> + jsobj = json.dumps(qmp)
> print str(jsobj)
>
> def _execute_cmd(self, cmdline):
>
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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