Improve the detection of data types in command-line method arguments.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk/qpid@1066564 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/src/py/qmf-tool b/tools/src/py/qmf-tool
index f22caa90c7..c01900ac62 100755
--- a/tools/src/py/qmf-tool
+++ b/tools/src/py/qmf-tool
@@ -306,7 +306,12 @@ class QmfData:
     methodName = tokens[1]
     args = []
     for arg in tokens[2:]:
-      if arg[0] == '{' or arg[0] == '[' or arg.isdigit():
+      ##
+      ## If the argument is a map, list, boolean, integer, or floating (one decimal point),
+      ## run it through the Python evaluator so it is converted to the correct type.
+      ##
+      if arg[0] == '{' or arg[0] == '[' or arg == "True" or arg == "False" \
+            or (arg.count('.') < 2 and arg.replace('.','').isdigit()):
         args.append(eval(arg))
       else:
         args.append(arg)