Trying to squeeze the validator output into the monitor reply message doesn't make sense and doesn't work well as it's not well formed JSON: 54) qemuMonitorJSONAddNetdev ... libvirt: error : internal error: cannot parse json { "error": { "desc": "failed to validate arguments of 'netdev_add' against QAPI schema: { ERROR: variant 'test' for discriminator 'type' not found ", "class": "UnexpectedCommand" } }: lexical error: invalid character inside string. ev_add' against QAPI schema: { ERROR: variant 'test' for (right here) ------^ FAILED Output it to stderr if requested and just note that schema validation failed in the error message: 54) qemuMonitorJSONAddNetdev ... failed to validate arguments of 'netdev_add' against QAPI schema args: { "id": "net0", "type": "test" } validator output: { ERROR: variant 'test' for discriminator 'type' not found libvirt: QEMU Driver error : internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'netdev_add': failed to validate arguments of 'netdev_add' against QAPI schema (to see debug output use VIR_TEST_DEBUG=2) FAILED Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tests/qemumonitortestutils.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c index 159b1b909e..992d2a4e71 100644 --- a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c +++ b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c @@ -538,10 +538,19 @@ qemuMonitorTestProcessCommandDefaultValidate(qemuMonitorTestPtr test, args = emptyargs = virJSONValueNewObject(); if (testQEMUSchemaValidate(args, schemaroot, test->qapischema, &debug) < 0) { + if (virTestGetDebug() == 2) { + g_autofree char *argstr = virJSONValueToString(args, true); + fprintf(stderr, + "\nfailed to validate arguments of '%s' against QAPI schema\n" + "args:\n%s\nvalidator output:\n %s\n", + cmdname, NULLSTR(argstr), virBufferCurrentContent(&debug)); + } + if (qemuMonitorReportError(test, "failed to validate arguments of '%s' " - "against QAPI schema: %s", - cmdname, virBufferCurrentContent(&debug)) == 0) + "against QAPI schema " + "(to see debug output use VIR_TEST_DEBUG=2)", + cmdname) == 0) return 1; return -1; } -- 2.25.1