[PATCH 0/5] tests: Tool for programatic modification of qemucapabilitiesdata/*.replies

[Ján Tomko]

On a Wednesday in 2021, Peter Krempa wrote:
>I was asked multiple times how to automate modification of the qemu
>capability dumps. I wrote a tool [1] that allowed doing that.
>Unfortunately as it wasn't in the repo it was not avalilable.
>
>Now I've finally set out to finish it. It masquerades as a test in
>default mode checking the ordering and numbering of the caps dump files
>as in the past there were few cases where manual edits broke it.
>
>In update mode it allows modification of the replies and gives few
>examples to do so. There's a lot of possible things users would want to
>do so there's no way around actually writing some code but it should be
>easier this way.
>
>Since this now does also numbering, the AWK/shell script
>'qemucapsfixreplies' can be removed.
>
>
>
>
>[1]: Okay, okay. Copy&paste'd few bits from various places into one
>messy C file and didn't bother with memory cleanup. But it worked.
>
>
>Peter Krempa (5):
>  util: json: Introduce virJSONValueObjectReplaceValue
>  tests: qemumonitortestutils.h: Reformat header file
>  qemumonitortestutils: Extract parser for the monitor conversation dump
>    file
>  tests: Tool for programatic modification of
>    qemucapabilitiesdata/*.replies
>  tests: Remove 'qemucapsfixreplies'
>
> src/libvirt_private.syms          |   1 +
> src/util/virjson.c                |  20 +++
> src/util/virjson.h                |   6 +
> tests/domaincapstest.c            |   3 +-
> tests/meson.build                 |   1 +
> tests/qemucapabilitiesnumbering.c | 242 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tests/qemucapabilitiestest.c      |   4 +-
> tests/qemucapsfixreplies          |  26 ----
> tests/qemumonitortestutils.c      | 123 ++++++++++-----
> tests/qemumonitortestutils.h      | 149 +++++++++++-------
> 10 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tests/qemucapabilitiesnumbering.c
> delete mode 100755 tests/qemucapsfixreplies
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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