Re: GSoC Intro - TUI interface for QMP

[Markus Armbruster]

John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:

[...]

> A challenge will be where to pull the help text from. The QEMU server
> is not capable (today) of sending help information over the QMP socket
> itself.
>
> We will need to implement a QMP command inside of QEMU directly that
> is capable of delivering this information to the client so that it can 
> render it.
>
> Since not all versions of QEMU will have this feature, the qmp-shell
> will need to be able to gracefully deal with the lack of help text, 
> displaying an error indicating that this version of QEMU does not have
> help information compiled into it.

The doc text is bulky: my bld/docs/manual/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html is
1.7 MiB and growing.  Less lavish markup results in smaller data.  We
may want to store it compressed, or load it on demand.  We might even
have to make it compile-time optional for some use cases.