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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt index a1d6f9ee06..1566b8ae5e 100644 --- a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt +++ b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt @@ -92,12 +92,16 @@ Currently supported capabilities are: The format for command execution is: -{ "execute": json-string, "arguments": json-object, "id": json-value, - "control": json-object } +{ "execute": json-string, "arguments": json-object, "id": json-value } + +or + +{ "exec-oob": json-string, "arguments": json-object, "id": json-value } Where, -- The "execute" member identifies the command to be executed by the Server +- The "execute" or "exec-oob" member identifies the command to be + executed by the server. The latter requests out-of-band execution. - The "arguments" member is used to pass any arguments required for the execution of the command, it is optional when no arguments are required. Each command documents what contents will be considered @@ -106,9 +110,6 @@ The format for command execution is: command execution, it is optional and will be part of the response if provided. The "id" member can be any json-value. A json-number incremented for each successive command works fine. -- The optional "control" member further specifies how the command is - to be executed. Currently, its only member is optional "run-oob". - See section "2.3.1 Out-of-band execution" for details. 2.3.1 Out-of-band execution --------------------------- @@ -129,9 +130,6 @@ To be able to match responses back to their commands, the client needs to pass "id" with out-of-band commands. Passing it with all commands is recommended for clients that accept capability "oob". -To execute a command out-of-band, the client puts "run-oob": true into -execute's member "control". - If the client sends in-band commands faster than the server can execute them, the server will eventually drop commands to limit the queue length. The sever sends event COMMAND_DROPPED then. @@ -274,7 +272,7 @@ S: { "timestamp": { "seconds": 1258551470, "microseconds": 802384 }, 3.7 Out-of-band execution ------------------------- -C: { "execute": "migrate-pause", "id": 42, "control": { "run-oob": true } } +C: { "exec-oob": "migrate-pause", "id": 42 } S: { "id": 42, "error": { "class": "GenericError", "desc": "migrate-pause is currently only supported during postcopy-active state" } } |