You're probably not missing anything. ExtractGrok came before the record reader/writer enlightenment phase.
If you think ExtractGrok is useful and want to improve it as you suggest I think you're good to go provided you do so in a way that doesn't break existing flows (change their behavior unless they opt in so to speak). Is that feasible for your idea? Thanks On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m working on upgrading java-grok to the new 0.1.9 release. While going > through the GrokReader the the ExtractGrok components I noticed that they > differ in a very important way grok wise. > The reader loads the default patterns ( which are a copy of the ubiquitous > default patterns in java-grok itself. The older ( I assume ) ExtractGrok > processor does not. > > I’m wondering if there is a reason for this going back to the creation of > the processor. It seems to me it would be better for the ExtractGrok > processor and the GrokReader to work similarly with regards > to the default patterns. At the moment, there is only one pattern file > allowed to be specified with ExtractGrok ( I think there is PR for multiple > pattern files ). Besides consistency between the two components, > it seems like it would be better for users if they didn’t have to waste or > merge pattern files to get the common patterns. > > I apologize in advance if I am missing something here. > > Would anyone object to setting the default patterns as we do in the > GrokReader? > > ottO
