[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/4] monitor: New argument type 'b'

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:27:56 +0100
Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:

> This is a boolean value.  Human monitor accepts "on" or "off".
> Consistent with option parsing (see parse_option_bool()).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ---
>  monitor.c |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index 3ce9a4e..47b68a2 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@
>   *
>   * '?'          optional type (for all types, except '/')
>   * '.'          other form of optional type (for 'i' and 'l')
> + * 'b'          boolean
> + *              user mode accepts "on" or "off"
>   * '-'          optional parameter (eg. '-f')
>   *
>   */
> @@ -3841,6 +3843,29 @@ static const mon_cmd_t *monitor_parse_command(Monitor 
> *mon,
>                  qdict_put(qdict, key, qfloat_from_double(val));
>              }
>              break;
> +        case 'b':
> +            {
> +                const char *beg;
> +                int val;
> +
> +                while (qemu_isspace(*p)) {
> +                    p++;
> +                }
> +                beg = p;
> +                while (qemu_isgraph(*p)) {
> +                    p++;
> +                }
> +                if (!strncmp(beg, "on", p - beg)) {
> +                    val = 1;
> +                } else if (!strncmp(beg, "off", p - beg)) {
> +                    val = 0;
> +                } else {
> +                    monitor_printf(mon, "Expected 'on' or 'off'\n");
> +                    goto fail;
> +                }

 This will make 'on' be the default when no on/off is specified, is that
your intention? I'm wondering if this can cause problems when you add
optional support for it and mixes it with other arguments.

> +                qdict_put(qdict, key, qbool_from_int(val));
> +            }
> +            break;
>          case '-':
>              {
>                  const char *tmp = p;
> @@ -4322,6 +4347,12 @@ static int check_arg(const CmdArgs *cmd_args, QDict 
> *args)
>                  return -1;
>              }
>              break;
> +        case 'b':
> +            if (qobject_type(value) != QTYPE_QBOOL) {
> +                qerror_report(QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name, "bool");
> +                return -1;
> +            }
> +            break;
>          case '-':
>              if (qobject_type(value) != QTYPE_QINT &&
>                  qobject_type(value) != QTYPE_QBOOL) {