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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 08:57:03AM +0100, Damien Hedde wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/22/22 07:10, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com> writes:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Why not use plain QMP for that?
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> What do you mean by plain QMP ?

Directly connect to the socket and send the QMP JSON commands you have.

Essentially qmp-shell is designed for adhoc interactive human usage.
For automated / scripted, non-interactive usage, it is expected that
QMP is simple enough that tools just directly connect to the QMP
socket instead of using a wrapper layer.

What is the reason you want to use qmp-shell for this instead of
directly using the socket from your scripts ?

Regards,
Daniel
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