Quick hint: you need to set the param passing mode inside the plugin. Not the template type specifies what you get, but the plugin asks the engine. What you look for is JSON passing mode (or maybe array passing). Ommongodb should help you, else ping me early next week.
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog- > boun...@lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Brian Knox > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:22 PM > To: rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] working with list templates > > Hi Radu! Thanks for the link, but I already know how to work with list > templates from a conf perspective. I'm looking for good examples of > accessing that data from code in an output plugin. Currently my plugin > simply does this in CODESTARTdoAction: > > CHKiRet(writeHiredis(ppString[0], pData)); > > This passes the entire output from the template as a string to redis. > This works ok when I want to construct redis commands from templates > using individual properties straight to hiredis's redisAppendCommand > function, such as: > > "HINCR progcount %programname% 1" > > But it does not work when I want to send whole messages to redis > (whitespace in the syslog message be interpreted as delimiters in the > command, causing errors). > > hiredis has another function however, redisAppendCommandArgv, that is > variatic. In order to use this I would like to construct a list using > the list templates, and then access each individual member of the list > from the output plugin code so I can construct the array to pass to > redisAppendCommandArgv. So, let's say I construct the following > template: > > template(name="redisPushQueue" type="list") { > constant(value="LPUSH") > constant(value="queue_key") > property(name="msg") > } > > From the output plugin code, how do I then access each member of this > list individually with the new template code? > > Make sense? > > Brian > > > > > > > 1) Can > On 1/3/2013 7:59 AM, Radu Gheorghe wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > > > Just to make sure we're not missing the obvious: > > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html > > > > Besides that, there are a couple of examples here: > > > > > > 2013/1/3 Brian Knox <taote...@gmail.com> > > > >> I've been working on some improvements for the omhiredis output > plugin this > >> week. I think I've come up with a better way of combining templates > with > >> redis command formatting. In order to do this, I need to, given a > list > >> style template, get the number of elements in the list and the > length of > >> each element. > >> > >> I've only worked with string templates (from a plugin perspective) > with my > >> output plugins so far. Is there a good example somewhere for > dealing with > >> list templates? > >> > >> On other fronts, I now omhiredis working with batch dequeue in > conjunction > >> with hiredis' pipeline commands. In local tests this let me push > around > >> 250,000 redis commands per second to a redis instance (I was getting > around > >> 50k commands of the same type with the same test before the > changes). > >> > >> Rainer - I'm hoping to wrap up this next round of improvements in a > few > >> days and get a patch your way! > >> > >> Brian > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rsyslog mailing list > >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a > myriad > >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if > you > >> DON'T LIKE THAT. > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a > myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST > if you DON'T LIKE THAT. > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a > myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST > if you DON'T LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
