Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 08/18] blockjob: add new --raw flag to virsh blockjob

The current output of 'blockjob [--info]' is a single line designed for human consumption; it's not very nice for machine parsing. Furthermore, I have plans to modify the line in response to the new flag for controlling bandwidth units. Solve that by adding a --raw parameter, which outputs information closer to the C struct. $ virsh blockjob testvm1 vda --raw type=Block Copy bandwidth=1 cur=197120 end=197120 The information is indented, because I'd like for a later patch to add a mode that iterates over all the vm's disks with status for each; in that mode, each block name would be listed unindented before information (if any) about that block. Now that we have a raw mode, we can guarantee that it won't change format over time. Any app that cares about parsing the output can try --raw, and if it fails, know that it was talking to an older virsh and fall back to parsing the human-readable format which had not changed until now; meanwhile, when not using --raw, we have freed future virsh to change the output to whatever makes sense. My first change to human mode: this command now guarantees a line is printed on successful use of the API, even when the API did not find a current block job (consistent with the rest of virsh). Bonus: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135441 complained that this message was confusing: $ virsh blockjob test1 hda --async --bandwidth 10 error: conflict between --abort, --info, and --bandwidth modes even though the man page already documents that --async implies abort mode, all because '--abort' wasn't present in the command line. Since I'm adding another case where options are tied to or imply a mode, I changed that error to: error: conflict between abort, info, and bandwidth modes * tools/virsh-domain.c (cmdBlockJob): Add --raw parameter; tweak error wording. * tools/virsh.pod (blockjob): Document it. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tools/virsh-domain.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------- tools/virsh.pod | 19 ++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)