[syslog-ng] tfjson: JSON-generating template function

[Matthew Hall]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 05:27:47PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Based on the work of Balint Kovacs <blint at balabit.hu>, a $(format_json)
> template function was implemented: with this function, one can hammer
> log messages into JSON format.

> At the moment, only strings are supported, and there is no way to
> structure the JSON properly yet. We'll figure out a way to do that too,
> eventually. There's a few more things in the pipeline for tfjson, so
> treat this version as a beta.
> 
> The code is available on the integration/tfjson/base branch of my
> repository at git://git.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-3.3.git
> 
> Browsable online at:
> http://git.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-3.3/tree/modules/tfjson/tfjson.c?h=integration/tfjson/base

> The bulk of the work was done by Balint, I just happened to accidentally
> refactor it a tiny bit while reviewing his code.

Hello Gergely and Balint,

If I wanted to use this in a copy of syslog-ng 3.2, to bypass my current 
extremely slow Perl code for parsing messages coming in from syslog-ng, 
and replace it with the very fast JSON::XS, what would I need to do to 
make a backport? Is that even possible, or would it be too much of a 
mess? Since I am running in production I'd like to stick with a more 
stable version of syslog-ng.

Regards,
Matthew.