[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] Bash completion for virt-manager utilities

Abhijeet Kasurde akasurde at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 06:43:16 UTC 2015


Thanks for comments.

On 10/28/2015 12:52 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 10/24/2015 12:27 PM, Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:
>> Added bash completion script for virt-xml, virt-install, virt-clone and
>> virt-convert
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Abhijeet Kasurde <akasurde at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   setup.py                               |  1 +
>>   2 files changed, 83 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash
>>
> Cool! Thanks for this. I only played with it a bit, but a couple comments.
>
> - Name the file virt-install.bash instead
OK
> - Just put it in data/, not data/bash.completion
OK
> - There's lots of boilerplate, really the only difference between the
> functions is the opt list. I suggest adding a function like _process_opts(),
> and the callers just pass in their specific opts list.
Will do.
> One more comment inline
>
>> diff --git a/data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash b/data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..1ebc4ab
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash
>> @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
>> +_virt_install()
>> +{
>> +    local cur prev opts
>> +    COMPREPLY=()
>> +    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
>> +    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
>> +    opts="-h --help --version --connect -n --name --memory --vcpus --cpu \
>> +        --metadata --cdrom -l --location --pxe --import --livecd --boot -x \
>> +        --extra-args --initrd-inject --os-variant --idmap --disk --network \
>> +        --graphics --controller --input --serial --parallel --channel -w \
>> +        --console --hostdev --filesystem --sound --watchdog --video \
>> +        --smartcard --redirdev --memballoon --tpm --rng --panic \
>> +        --security --numatune --memtune --blkiotune --memorybacking \
>> +        --features --clock --pm --events --resource -v --hvm -p --paravirt \
>> +        --container --virt-type --arch --machine --autostart \
>> +        --wait --noautoconsole --noreboot --print-xml --dry-run \
>> +        --check --quiet --debug -q -d"
>> +
>> +    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]]; then
>> +        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
>> +        return 0
>> +    fi
>> +}
>> +
>> +_virt_clone()
>> +{
>> +    local cur prev opts
>> +    COMPREPLY=()
>> +    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
>> +    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
>> +    opts="-h --help --version --connect -o --original --original-xml --auto-clone \
>> +        -n --name --reflink -f --file --force-copy --nonsparse --preserve-data -m \
>> +        --mac --replace --print-xml --check -q --quiet -d --debug"
>> +
>> +    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]]; then
>> +        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
>> +        return 0
>> +    fi
>> +}
>> +
>> +_virt_convert()
>> +{
>> +    local cur prev opts
>> +    COMPREPLY=()
>> +    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
>> +    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
>> +    opts="-h --help --version --connect -i --input-format -D --disk-format \
>> +        --destination --noautoconsole --print-xml --dry-run -q --quiet -d  \
>> +        --debug"
>> +
>> +    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]]; then
>> +        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
>> +        return 0
>> +    fi
>> +}
>> +
>> +_virt_xml()
>> +{
>> +    local cur prev opts
>> +    COMPREPLY=()
>> +    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
>> +    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD-1]}"
>> +    opts="-h --help --version -c --connect --edit --remove-device --add-device \
>> +        --build-xml --update --define --print-diff --print-xml --confirm --disk \
>> +        -w --network --graphics --metadata --memory --vcpus --cpu --security \
>> +        --numatune --memtune --blkiotune --memorybacking --features --clock \
>> +        --pm --events --resource --boot --idmap --controller --input --serial \
>> +        --parallel --channel --console --hostdev --filesystem --sound \
>> +        --watchdog --video --smartcard --redirdev --memballoon --tpm --rng \
>> +        --panic -q --quiet -d --debug"
>> +
>> +    echo $COMP_CWORD
> This looks like leftover debugging, but if you unify the code it will go away
OK
>> +    if [[ ${cur} == -* ]]; then
>> +        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
>> +        return 0
>> +    fi
>> +}
>> +
>> +complete -F _virt_install virt-install
>> +complete -F _virt_clone virt-clone
>> +complete -F _virt_convert virt-convert
>> +complete -F _virt_xml virt-xml
>> diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
>> index 72f4d0f..d48d1b5 100755
>> --- a/setup.py
>> +++ b/setup.py
>> @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ setup(
>>            glob.glob("virtcli/*.py") + glob.glob("virtcli/cli.cfg")),
>>           ("share/virt-manager/virtinst", glob.glob("virtinst/*.py")),
>>           ("share/virt-manager/virtconv", glob.glob("virtconv/*.py")),
>> +        ("/etc/bash_completion.d", ["data/bash.completion/virt-manager.bash"]),
>>       ],
>>   
>>       cmdclass={
>>
>
> Future work as a note to self:
>
> - Wire it up in the RPM
> - Consider generating the option list rather than needing to update it
> manually. Probably not hard to add a hidden cli option like 'virt-install
> --completion-options' that spits out a list to stderr that we can just stuff
> in the script at build time
> - Investigate what it would take to add support for command sub options, and
> differentiating between boolean and non-boolean options, then file
> virt-manager bugs for it
>
> - Cole




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