qmp-shell: fix pretty printing of JSON responses
commite55250c6cb4cf836f9188095a21c85f663aac06b
authorDaniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:51:46 +0000 (23 10:51 +0000)
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:16:32 +0000 (4 17:16 +0100)
tree6d740ef0dc64884612e4b7519d4a01beb41adc1c
parent3c0f12df65da872d5fbccae469f2cb21ed1c03b7
qmp-shell: fix pretty printing of JSON responses

Pretty printing of JSON responses is important to be able to understand
large responses from query commands in particular. Unfortunately this
was broken during the addition of the verbose flag in

  commit 1ceca07e48ead0dd2e41576c81d40e6a91cafefd
  Author: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
  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.

The original pretty printer would output python objects.

(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'}]}

This fixes the problem by switching to outputting pretty formatted JSON
text instead. This has the added benefit that the pretty printed output
is now valid JSON text. Due to the way the verbose flag was handled, the
pretty printing now applies to the command sent, as well as its response:

(QEMU) query-chardev
{
    "execute": "query-chardev",
    "arguments": {}
}
{
    "return": [
        {
            "frontend-open": false,
            "label": "parallel0",
            "filename": "vc"
        },
        {
            "frontend-open": true,
            "label": "serial0",
            "filename": "vc"
        },
        {
            "frontend-open": true,
            "label": "compat_monitor0",
            "filename": "unix:/tmp/qmp,server"
        }
    ]
}

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1456224706-1591-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
[Bonus fix: multiple -p now work]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
scripts/qmp/qmp-shell