[Lognorm] PR for field-type 'float' and field-types for parsing suffixed-values('suffixed' and 'named_suffixed')

[singh.janmejay]

Let me reach out to teams in my org to see if we can share log-samples
(some privacy stuff may be involved). I want to do this, but somehow
never got to it. Will start the conversation asap.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Rainer Gerhards
<rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> 2015-02-27 14:57 GMT+01:00 singh.janmejay <singh.janmejay at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>> Also, noticed we don't enable test-bench and valgrind on travis. It'll
>> be very useful to have them enabled for travis. Also, we should
>> probably enable regex too on travis(infact all optional things should
>> be enabled to exercise as many tests as possible).
>>
>> Shall I do this in current PR?
>>
>
> yes, please do!
>
> Side-note: do you have some logs to share for the tests and research I am
> currently working on?
>
> Rainer
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Rainer Gerhards
>> <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
>> > 2015-02-27 14:05 GMT+01:00 singh.janmejay <singh.janmejay at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> - Implemented float (a type that parses real numbers in form of
>> >> nnn.nnn) (note that this doesn't handle n.nnne^nn or any other
>> >> scientific notation, but then those are not all that common in logs)
>> >>
>> >> - Implemented suffixed and named_suffixed field types that allow
>> >> parsing of fields that have one of many potential suffixes (like a
>> >> disk-space value which may have suffix kb, mb, gb etc). Field
>> >> named_suffixed does exactly the same thing as suffixed, but allows
>> >> user to name the parsed-value and suffix field unlike suffixed, which
>> >> provides default names "value" and "suffix".
>> >>
>> >> - Tokenized wasn't working with lognorm special characters ('%' and
>> >> ':') because it wasn't unescaping token-string, which is now fixed.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > This sounds really good. Given the fact that I was about to release the
>> > current version, I think it would make sense to postpone  that for a few
>> > days to permit releasing the new things in that same release.
>> >
>> > Any concerns?
>> > Rainer
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Janmejay
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