[syslog-ng] Module development guide

[Scheidler, Balázs]

If you commit your code to a branch I can help with the basic skeleton of
the parser/grammar
On Jan 23, 2016 5:54 PM, "Marc Falzon" <m at baha.mu> wrote:

> I successfully generated a module template using the `create_plugin.sh`
> script, however I don't have the slightest idea on how to get started from
> here (I mean for the 'plugin glue', I can manage the cURL part)... The most
> problematic step for me is the whole parser/grammar thing, to which I
> believe to involve YACC/Bison parsing but I don't know how it works and
> it's too big of a learning curve for what I want to achieve at this
> point... Since the Gitbook doesn't provide any useful information on module
> development at the moment, is there any way to get me started on this
> topic? I'm not a developer (sysadmin), and trying to learn from existing
> module doesn't quite cut it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> m.
>
>
> On Friday 22 January 2016 at 11:35, Tibor Benke wrote:
>
> > There is also a shell script which generates a basic destination
> skeleton. You can find its source on this brach:
> https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/tree/f/plugin-creator . Check
> the dev-utils/plugin_skeleton_creator directory and this commit for the
> usage:
> https://github.com/juhaszviktor/syslog-ng/commit/89361d4d1817560ce8c906209355f1b737a28010
> >
> > 2016-01-22 11:33 GMT+01:00 Marc Falzon <m at baha.mu (mailto:m at baha.mu)>:
> > > Hi Bazsi,
> > >
> > >
> > > On Friday 22 January 2016 at 11:28, Scheidler, Balázs wrote:
> > >
> > > > not really, but maybe I would read the "official" modules source
> code instead. and of course you can ask questions on the mailing list. :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes that's what I've started to do, but a proper documentation is
> preferable, saves time and avoid confusion ;)
> > >
> > > > 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,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > m.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Marc Falzon <m at baha.mu (mailto:
> m at baha.mu) (mailto:m at baha.mu)> wrote:
> > > > > Hi
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there any documentation on how to develop new syslog-ng module
> using the native C API, besides reading the incubator modules source code?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > >
> > > > > m.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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