Now that syslog-ng has type hinting should the pdbtool test also validate the types of any values specified for a pattern.

<rule id="pid1" class="myclass" provider="me">
    <patterns>
        <pattern>some pattern @NUMBER:mynum@ with number</pattern>
    </patterns>
    <tags>
        <tag>rate</tag>
    </tags>
    <values>
       <value name="more" type="integer">100A</value>
    </values>
    <examples>
       <example>
          <test_message program="some pattern 123 with number</test_message>
          <test_values>
             <test_value name="mynum" type="integer">123</test_value>
          </test_values>
       </example>
    </examples>
</rule>

Currently the test_values are verified for both the value, and the type that the pattern parses, however, none of the values that are used to enrich this message are verified for type.

This results in a patterndb that passes validation, yet will fail at the time the pattern matches a log message.

comments?

-- 
Evan

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