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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QMP: allow dot separated dict path arguments in
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QMP: allow dot separated dict path arguments in qmp-shell |
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Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:56:22 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) |
On Tue, 02/11 14:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 06:45:05PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> > index d374b35..9c84551 100755
> > --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> > +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
> > @@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol):
> > value = json.loads(opt[1])
> > else:
> > value = opt[1]
> > - qmpcmd['arguments'][opt[0]] = value
> > + optpath = opt[0].split('.')
> > + parent = qmpcmd['arguments']
> > + for p in optpath[:-1]:
> > + if not p in parent:
> > + d = dict()
> > + parent[p] = d
> > + parent = d
>
> d is a stale reference when the path component already exists (e.g.
> a.b.c=1 a.d=2). Since 'a' already exists when processing 'a.d' we'll
> the value of d will actually be the a.b dict!
>
> I think you need the following instead:
>
> for p in optpath[:-1]:
> d = parent.get(p, {})
> parent[p] = d
> parent = d
Yes, thanks. And we should check the contradictive case "foo=a foo.bar=b". Will
send v2.
Fam