<div dir="ltr">There is also a shell script which generates a basic destination skeleton. You can find its source on this brach: <a href="https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/tree/f/plugin-creator">https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/tree/f/plugin-creator</a> . Check the dev-utils/plugin_skeleton_creator directory and this commit for the usage: <a href="https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/commit/89361d4d1817560ce8c906209355f1b737a28010">https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/commit/89361d4d1817560ce8c906209355f1b737a28010</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-22 11:33 GMT+01:00 Marc Falzon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@baha.mu" target="_blank">m@baha.mu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Bazsi,<br>
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On Friday 22 January 2016 at 11:28, Scheidler, Balázs wrote:<br>
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> not really, but maybe I would read the "official" modules source code instead. and of course you can ask questions on the mailing list. :)<br>
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</span>Yes that's what I've started to do, but a proper documentation is preferable, saves time and avoid confusion ;)<br>
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> if you want to create a destination, the easiest is to create a threaded destination, where the output is an independent thread, that can use a synchronous API. Of course this is going to be slower than using an asynchronous implementation, but that usually is good enough,<br>
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</span>Thank you for the hint. Given my use case (HTTP destination) I think I'm safe to go with an asynchronous implementation since each request is stateless, no connections/locks involved.<br>
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Marc Falzon <<a href="mailto:m@baha.mu">m@baha.mu</a> (mailto:<a href="mailto:m@baha.mu">m@baha.mu</a>)> wrote:<br>
> > Hi<br>
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> > Is there any documentation on how to develop new syslog-ng module using the native C API, besides reading the incubator modules source code?<br>
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> > Cheers,<br>
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> > m.<br>
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