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    scripts: qmp-shell: Expand support for QMP expressions · 6092c3ec
    John Snow 提交于
    This includes support for [] expressions, single-quotes in
    QMP expressions (which is not strictly a part of JSON), and
    the ability to use "True", "False" and "None" literals instead
    of JSON's equivalent true, false, and null literals.
    
    qmp-shell currently allows you to describe values as
    JSON expressions:
    key={"key":{"key2":"val"}}
    
    But it does not currently support arrays, which are needed
    for serializing and deserializing transactions:
    key=[{"type":"drive-backup","data":{...}}]
    
    qmp-shell also only currently accepts doubly quoted strings
    as-per JSON spec, but QMP allows single quotes.
    
    Lastly, python allows you to utilize "True" or "False" as
    boolean literals, but JSON expects "true" or "false". Expand
    qmp-shell to allow the user to type either, converting to the
    correct type.
    
    As a consequence of the above, the key=val parsing is also improved
    to give better error messages if a key=val token is not provided.
    
    CAVEAT: The parser is still extremely rudimentary and does not
    expect to find spaces in {} nor [] expressions. This patch does
    not improve this functionality.
    Signed-off-by: NJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: NKashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
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