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-rw-r--r--util/keyval.c63
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/util/keyval.c b/util/keyval.c
index 8f33a36a7c..7f625ad33c 100644
--- a/util/keyval.c
+++ b/util/keyval.c
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
* KEY=VALUE,... syntax:
*
* key-vals = [ key-val { ',' key-val } [ ',' ] ]
- * key-val = key '=' val
+ * key-val = key '=' val | help
* key = key-fragment { '.' key-fragment }
* key-fragment = / [^=,.]+ /
* val = { / [^,]+ / | ',,' }
+ * help = 'help' | '?'
*
* Semantics defined by reduction to JSON:
*
@@ -54,6 +55,9 @@
*
* The length of any key-fragment must be between 1 and 127.
*
+ * If any key-val is help, the object is to be treated as a help
+ * request.
+ *
* Design flaw: there is no way to denote an empty array or non-root
* object. While interpreting "key absent" as empty seems natural
* (removing a key-val from the input string removes the member when
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@
*
* key-vals = [ key-val-1st { ',' key-val } [ ',' ] ]
* key-val-1st = val-no-key | key-val
- * val-no-key = / [^=,]+ /
+ * val-no-key = / [^=,]+ / - help
*
* where val-no-key is syntactic sugar for implied-key=val-no-key.
*
@@ -89,6 +93,7 @@
#include "qapi/qmp/qlist.h"
#include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
#include "qemu/cutils.h"
+#include "qemu/help_option.h"
#include "qemu/option.h"
/*
@@ -162,15 +167,20 @@ static QObject *keyval_parse_put(QDict *cur,
}
/*
- * Parse one KEY=VALUE from @params, store result in @qdict.
+ * Parse one parameter from @params.
+ *
+ * If we're looking at KEY=VALUE, store result in @qdict.
* The first fragment of KEY applies to @qdict. Subsequent fragments
* apply to nested QDicts, which are created on demand. @implied_key
* is as in keyval_parse().
- * On success, return a pointer to the next KEY=VALUE, or else to '\0'.
+ *
+ * If we're looking at "help" or "?", set *help to true.
+ *
+ * On success, return a pointer to the next parameter, or else to '\0'.
* On failure, return NULL.
*/
static const char *keyval_parse_one(QDict *qdict, const char *params,
- const char *implied_key,
+ const char *implied_key, bool *help,
Error **errp)
{
const char *key, *key_end, *val_end, *s, *end;
@@ -184,11 +194,21 @@ static const char *keyval_parse_one(QDict *qdict, const char *params,
key = params;
val_end = NULL;
len = strcspn(params, "=,");
- if (implied_key && len && key[len] != '=') {
- /* Desugar implied key */
- key = implied_key;
- val_end = params + len;
- len = strlen(implied_key);
+ if (len && key[len] != '=') {
+ if (starts_with_help_option(key) == len) {
+ *help = true;
+ s = key + len;
+ if (*s == ',') {
+ s++;
+ }
+ return s;
+ }
+ if (implied_key) {
+ /* Desugar implied key */
+ key = implied_key;
+ val_end = params + len;
+ len = strlen(implied_key);
+ }
}
key_end = key + len;
@@ -398,21 +418,32 @@ static QObject *keyval_listify(QDict *cur, GSList *key_of_cur, Error **errp)
/*
* Parse @params in QEMU's traditional KEY=VALUE,... syntax.
+ *
* If @implied_key, the first KEY= can be omitted. @implied_key is
* implied then, and VALUE can't be empty or contain ',' or '='.
+ *
+ * A parameter "help" or "?" without a value isn't added to the
+ * resulting dictionary, but instead is interpreted as help request.
+ * All other options are parsed and returned normally so that context
+ * specific help can be printed.
+ *
+ * If @p_help is not NULL, store whether help is requested there.
+ * If @p_help is NULL and help is requested, fail.
+ *
* On success, return a dictionary of the parsed keys and values.
* On failure, store an error through @errp and return NULL.
*/
QDict *keyval_parse(const char *params, const char *implied_key,
- Error **errp)
+ bool *p_help, Error **errp)
{
QDict *qdict = qdict_new();
QObject *listified;
const char *s;
+ bool help = false;
s = params;
while (*s) {
- s = keyval_parse_one(qdict, s, implied_key, errp);
+ s = keyval_parse_one(qdict, s, implied_key, &help, errp);
if (!s) {
qobject_unref(qdict);
return NULL;
@@ -420,6 +451,14 @@ QDict *keyval_parse(const char *params, const char *implied_key,
implied_key = NULL;
}
+ if (p_help) {
+ *p_help = help;
+ } else if (help) {
+ error_setg(errp, "Help is not available for this option");
+ qobject_unref(qdict);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
listified = keyval_listify(qdict, NULL, errp);
if (!listified) {
qobject_unref(qdict);