[Lognorm] Tokenized-multivalue field-type for liblognorm

[David Lang]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, singh.janmejay wrote:

> Tokenizer followed by tokenizer is something that I have in mind too. But I
> promised myself that i'd write a test for that instead of testing it
> manually :-). Will add that patch on this thread once I get a chance to
> work on it.

At least in the short term, you can use the ability to call mmnormalize on a 
variable to parse subvariables.

How are the resulting fields addressed? Rsyslog hasn't had array addressing yet.

David Lang

> However, since you are asking about those kind of forms, let met discuss
> something else that I was thinking about.
>
> The idea is to have another field type called recurse.
>
> Similar to how tokenized uses a ctx to parse matching text, recurse will
> parse it using the current context. AFAIK, the context is stateless, so I
> don't see any problems with that. I also plan to support tag based picking
> of which rules the text may match, and if it matches something else, it
> should be considered no-match.
>
> Instead of typing it out here, i'll attach a picture I took after thinking
> through it briefly(i'll attach it to the next mail).
>
>
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