[PATCH 0/5] qmp-shell modifications for non-interactive use

[Damien Hedde]

Hi,

The main idea of this series is to be a bit more user-friendly when
using qmp-shell in a non-interactive way: with an input redirection
from a file containing a list of commands.

I'm working on dynamic qapi config of a qemu machine, this would
be very useful to provide and reproduce small examples.

This series proposes the following modifications:
+ no prompt when input is non-interactive
+ an --exit-on-error option so that the shell exits on first
  error (disconnection, command parsing error, response is an error)
+ support for comment lines and escaping eol to have more reability
  in the source files.

I tested this using QMPShell. I tried HMPShell but did not findout
how to successfully use it with qemu. How do I setup an HMPShell ?.

Another "issue" I have is the handling of integers. I
deal with a lot of addresses and reading/writing them as decimal is
a bit painful (json does not support hexadecimal integer format). Do
you think of any reasonable workaround for this ? Maybe HMP shell
support this ?

Thanks for your comments,
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Damien

Damien Hedde (5):
  python: qmp_shell: don't prompt when stdin is non-interactive
  python: qmp_shell: refactor the parsing error handling
  python: qmp_shell: refactor disconnection handling
  python: qmp_shell: add -e/--exit-on-error option
  python: qmp_shell: handle comment lines and escaped eol

 python/qemu/aqmp/qmp_shell.py | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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