[syslog-ng] [PATCH 0/3]: value-pairs() & related patches

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Matthew Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> writes:
> 
> >> > tfson()
> >> > =======
> >> > 
> >> > For extra fun & profit, Balint Kovacs' format_json has been ported to
> >> > use value-pairs(), and this will be the third patch in the series, and
> >> > is also available on my integration/tfjson branch.
> >> > 
> >> > This one's the least important, though it's dead simple, therefore I'd
> >> > be very happy if it made past the feature freeze aswell.
> >> 
> >> I'd integrate this into 3.4 instead. mongodb is already in, and the
> >> value-pairs stuff is a clear win there.
> >> 
> >> tfjson and substr (anything I've missed) should go to 3.4. Hopefully
> >> that can be a faster release-cycle, as I don't intend to break
> >> everything as I did with 3.3. (you know converting a program from single
> >> to multi-threaded has a certain cost).
> >
> > Having JSON support would be a big boost for those of us who want to do high speed integration with external apps without using stuff that involves slow regexes.
> >
> > I'd miss this feature if it didn't go in.
> 
> If it doesn't, that's not too bad, either, in my opinion: as long as the
> libsyslog-ng headers & whatnot are installed (which 3.3 is supposed to
> install, I think), I can easily turn tfjson into an external module
> until 3.4 is released as stable with tfjson included.
> 
> Not as convenient as having it in the core, but with a little bit of
> work on my end, it can be made to compile without patching. I'd think
> that's an acceptable compromise.
> 
> (Come to think of it, I could even collect a bunch of other stuff like
> the $(substr) macro into this external module, so that people who want
> to use them just have to download a tarball, do ./configure && make &&
> make install and be done with it - no patching required)
> 

Yeah, I was thinking creating a syslog-ng-modules repository, which
perhaps with submodules could make it possible to delegate maintenance
for certain modules to 3rd parties.

-- 
Bazsi