[syslog-ng] [GSOC]Some questions about the project:WebSocket for syslog-ng

[Yilin Li]

Hi Fabien,
Thanks your advices.
It will save users' time to learn a new syntax and my time to write a new
parser.
I agree with you. :)

2016-03-17 4:08 GMT+08:00 Fabien Wernli <wernli at in2p3.fr>:

> Hi Yilin,
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:28:13AM +0800, Yilin Li wrote:
> > The new WebSocket destination itself serves as a Websocket Server.  It
> has
> > a log messages buffer.  The log messages send to the destination are
> stored
> > in the buffer (If the buffer is full then the oldest message is
> overrided).
> > Then other WebSocket clients(Such as a web browser) can directly connect
> to
> > the Websocket Server to subscribe the messsage. This is the  pub-sub
> > communication that @faxmodem and @Fabien mentioned.
> > Then I plan to define some syntax that the  WebSocket destination can
> > understand to filter the log message. So the WebSocket Client can send
> its
> > filter definition and get the logs it want from the new WebSocket
> > destination.
>
> Sounds good to me!
> About the syntax, why not use syslog-ng's syntax, so you don't need to
> write
> a parser yourself? The client would send the filter or even more if needed
> (e.g. filter + parser + rewrite rule) and syslog-ng would compile it.
>
>
>
>
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Thanks,
Yilin  Li
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Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
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