[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: rework command parsing (was: Re: Question, how to use virDomainQemuMonitorCommand())

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:41:51PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 09:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > While re-writing the command line mashing to not loose quotes would be
> > nice, the more obvious fix is to not mash all the args back into a
> > string at all. The virsh command ultimately wants char **argv, and we 
> > already have char **argv. So doing a char ** -> char * -> char **
> > conversion is just insanity.
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> I did it as your suggested! Thanks a lot, see the following patch:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] virsh: rework command parsing
> 
> Old virsh command parsing mashes all the args back into a string and
> miss the quotes, this patch fixes it. It is also needed for introducing
> qemu-monitor-command.
> 
> This patch split the command-parsing into 2 phrases:
> 1) parse command string and make it into <args, argv> style arguments.
> 2) parse <args, argv> style arguments and make it into vshCmd structure.

This sounds good, though I can barely understand the patch diff with
the hairy hand-crafted parser we have there :-)

> 
> Misc changes:
> 1) support escape '\'
> 2) a better quoting support, the following commands are now supported:
>      virsh # dumpxml --"update-cpu" vm1
>      virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu vm"1"
> 3) better handling the boolean options, in old code the following commands are equivalent: 
>      virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu=vm1
>      virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu vm1
>    after this patch applied, the first one will become illegal.

Daniel
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