Github user jagdeepsingh2 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1245#discussion_r237699908 --- Diff: metron-platform/metron-parsers/README.md --- @@ -52,6 +52,62 @@ There are two general types types of parsers: This is using the default value for `wrapEntityName` if that property is not set. * `wrapEntityName` : Sets the name to use when wrapping JSON using `wrapInEntityArray`. The `jsonpQuery` should reference this name. * A field called `timestamp` is expected to exist and, if it does not, then current time is inserted. + * Regular Expressions Parser + * `recordTypeRegex` : A regular expression to uniquely identify a record type. + * `messageHeaderRegex` : A regular expression used to extract fields from a message part which is common across all the messages. + * `convertCamelCaseToUnderScore` : If this property is set to true, this parser will automatically convert all the camel case property names to underscore seperated. + For example, following convertions will automatically happen: + + ``` + ipSrcAddr -> ip_src_addr + ipDstAddr -> ip_dst_addr + ipSrcPort -> ip_src_port + ``` + Note this property may be necessary, because java does not support underscores in the named group names. So in case your property naming conventions requires underscores in property names, use this property. + + * `fields` : A json list of maps contaning a record type to regular expression mapping. + + A complete configuration example would look like: + + ```json + "convertCamelCaseToUnderScore": true, + "recordTypeRegex": "kernel|syslog", + "messageHeaderRegex": "(<syslogPriority>(<=^<)\\d{1,4}(?=>)).*?(<timestamp>(<=>)[A-Za-z] {3}\\s{1,2}\\d{1,2}\\s\\d{1,2}:\\d{1,2}:\\d{1,2}(?=\\s)).*?(<syslogHost>(<=\\s).*?(?=\\s))", + "fields": [ + { + "recordType": "kernel", + "regex": ".*(<eventInfo>(<=\\]|\\w\\:).*?(?=$))" + }, + { + "recordType": "syslog", + "regex": ".*(<processid>(<=PID\\s=\\s).*?(?=\\sLine)).*(<filePath>(<=64\\s)\/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+\/)+(?=\\w)) (<fileName>.*?(?=\")).*(<eventInfo>(<=\").*?(?=$))" + } + ] + ``` + **Note**: messageHeaderRegex and regex (withing fields) could be specified as lists also e.g. --- End diff -- Following is an example where regex is a list: {``` "recordType": "STARTSAVECONFIG", "regex": [ ".*(?<deviceName>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s\\d{1,7}-\\w{1,10}-\\d{1,7})).*?(?<eventInfo>(? <=\\s\\d{1,7}\\s:\\s).*?(?=$)).*$", ".*(?<deviceName>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s\\d{1,7}-\\w{1,10}-\\d{1,7})).*?(?<eventInfo>(?<=\\s:\\s).*?(?=$)).*$" ] } ``` A list should be chosen when there are multiple forms of a particular record type. If there is only one form of a record type (for example in case of Cisco ASA), then there is no need to have a list. **regex** field can be specified in a string as only a single regular expression is required per **recordType**. For example ``` { "recordType": "APPFW APPFW_FIELDFORMAT", "regex": ".*(?<deviceName>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s\\d{1,7}-\\w{1,10}-\\d{1,7})).*?(?<ipSrcAddr>(?<=\\s\\d{1,7}\\s:\\s{1,2}).*?(?=\\s)).*?(?<ipSrcPort>(?<=\\s)\\d+(?=\\-)).*?(?<path>(?<=\\-\\w{1,10}\\s).*?(?=\\s)).*?(?<status>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s)).*?(?<requestUri>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s)).*?(?<eventInfo>(?<=\\s).*?(?=\\s\\<)).*?(?<responseResultString>(?<=\\<).*?(?=\\>)).*$" } ```
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