[libvirt] [PATCH] tests: add a comment about our fake qmp

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 09:49:58 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 07:02:04PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> While testing QMP, I used a simple qemu session of
> 'qemu-kvm -M none -nodefaults -nographic -qmp stdio'
> for some experiments.  But it took me far too long to remember
> the magic invocation to unlock QMP into accepting normal commands.
> While I was able to grep libvirt sources and easily find where
> libvirt expects the normal "QMP" greeting, I could not find the
> proper reply to that greeting nearby.
> 
> Reading the testsuite didn't help either, since there we don't
> emulate the mandatory handshake.  But since my grep hit the
> testsuite, adding a bit of documentation will make it much easier
> to jog my memory in the future.
> 
> * tests/qemumonitortestutils.c (QEMU_JSON_GREETING): Mention that
> the normal counterpart reply is skipped.
> ---
>  tests/qemumonitortestutils.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
> index d1b2ab5..7b90c38 100644
> --- a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
> +++ b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  /*
> - * Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
> + * Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
>   *
>   * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> @@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ static qemuMonitorCallbacks qemuCallbacks = {
>  };
> 
>  #define QEMU_JSON_GREETING "{\"QMP\": {\"version\": {\"qemu\": {\"micro\": 1, \"minor\": 0, \"major\": 1}, \"package\": \" (qemu-kvm-1.0.1)\"}, \"capabilities\": []}}"
> +/* We skip the normal handshake reply of "{\"execute\":\"qmp_capabilities\"}" */
> +
>  #define QEMU_TEXT_GREETING "QEMU 1.0,1 monitor - type 'help' for more information"
> 
>  qemuMonitorTestPtr qemuMonitorTestNew(bool json, virCapsPtr caps)

ACK


Daniel
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