[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp-shell: fix nested json regression

[Marc-André Lureau]

Commit fcfab7541 ("qmp-shell: learn to send commands with quoted
arguments") introduces the usage of Python 'shlex' to handle quoted
arguments, but it accidentally broke generation of nested JSON
structs.

shlex drops quotes, which breaks parsing of the nested struct.

cmd='blockdev-create job-id="job0 foo" 
options={"driver":"qcow2","size":16384,"file":{"driver":"file","filename":"foo.qcow2"}}'

shlex.split(cmd)
['blockdev-create',
 'job-id=job0 foo',
 'options={driver:qcow2,size:16384,file:{driver:file,filename:foo.qcow2}}']

Replace with a regexp to split while respecting quoted strings and preserving 
quotes:

re.findall(r'''(?:[^\s"']|"(?:\\.|[^"])*"|'(?:\\.|[^'])*')+''', cmd)
['blockdev-create',
 'job-id="job0 foo"',
 
'options={"driver":"qcow2","size":16384,"file":{"driver":"file","filename":"foo.qcow2"}}']

Fixes: fcfab7541 ("qmp-shell: learn to send commands with quoted arguments")
Reported-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/qmp/qmp-shell | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
index 770140772d..813dd68232 100755
--- a/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
+++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 import errno
 import atexit
-import shlex
+import re
 
 class QMPCompleter(list):
     def complete(self, text, state):
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol):
 
             < command-name > [ arg-name1=arg1 ] ... [ arg-nameN=argN ]
         """
-        cmdargs = shlex.split(cmdline)
+        cmdargs = 
re.findall(r'''(?:[^\s"']|"(?:\\.|[^"])*"|'(?:\\.|[^'])*')+''', cmdline)
 
         # Transactional CLI entry/exit:
         if cmdargs[0] == 'transaction(':
-- 
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