Yes, looks like "arbitrary" is a concept in DAS but it doesn't make sense
to name env vars like that.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pirinthapan,
>
> As per the offline chat we had, this is being implemented and tracked with
> [1]. About the prefix, how about we using "WSO2_" as the prefix.
> WSO2_TENANT_ID seems to make more sense. WDYT?
>
> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSAS-2225
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Pirinthapan Mahendran <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In AppCloud we will be having the HTTP Monitoring dashboards to showing
>> the statistics of the application usages. To accomplish this, we will be
>> using the data publishers shiped with msf4j and AS-6.0.0. But still we need
>> to publish some AppCloud specific data (i.e : Application Name, Application
>> Version, etc.)  and tenant id from these publishers to DAS.
>>
>> To publish these custom data we have come with the following solution,
>> which requires some modification in the msf4j and AS publishers.
>>
>> *When creating the containers during the application deployment, AppCloud
>> will set these custom data as Environment Variables. These environment
>> variables are prefixed with the keyword 'arbitrary'. *
>>
>> *e.g : If we are setting application name as an environment variable, the
>> key of this environment variable will looks like
>> 'arbitrary_applicationName'.*
>>
>> *Then during the publishing time, the msf4j or AS will read all the
>> environment variables with the prefix 'arbitrary' and publish them as
>> arbitrary attributes to DAS.*
>>
>> *The stream definition in the DAS will be configured to capture these
>> arbitrary attributes and use them for its internal processing.*
>>
>> In order to implement this solution we are planning to add these changes
>> to the next releases of msf4j and AS with the coordination of msf4j and As
>> teams.
>>
>> If you have any comments on the above solution, we are kindly
>> appreciating them.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Mahendran Pirinthapan
>> Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc.
>> Mobile +94772378732.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Kalpa Welivitigoda
> Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com
> Email: [email protected]
> Mobile: +94776509215
>



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