On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 18:18:16 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
JSON args for -netdev were added as precursor for adding the 'dgram' network backend type. Enable the detection and update test cases using DO_TEST_CAPS_LATEST.
Enabling the capability also ensures that the -netdev argument is validated against the QAPI schema of 'netdev_add' which was already implemented but not enabled.
The parser supporting JSON was added by qemu commit f3eedcddba3 and
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/f3eedcddba3#28a48d37e50f9c5a42... You can see that it uses the visitor for 'Netdev' which is the type also used as argument for 'netdev_add'. Our internals generate a JSON object for both cases and just convert it to commandline if JSON is not used.
enabled when adding stream/dgram netdevs in commit 5166fe0ae46.
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/5166fe0ae46#28a48d37e50f9c5a42... Here it explicitly detects opening { as modern syntax.