Like Pascal strings, lengh-data-length-data... On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> If the size of the message is known ahead of time, you can create a simple > framing protocol around messages as well. > > On 21 July 2017 at 07:23, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't quite understand. > > > > This is something which is needed now. When you use a streaming appender > > (Console, any File or Socket with protocol=tcp/ssl), the layout needs to > > provide some way to delimit log events. > > > > > > > > On 2017-07-20 22:28, Matt Sicker wrote: > > > >> I'm not a fan of the null termination as it is. Do you know how many > >> millions or billions of dollars have been wasted due to buggy C and C++ > >> programs thanks to null-terminated strings? Almost as bad as null > itself. > >> ;) > >> > >> Having some way to delimit log events could be handy later on for > >> garbage-free networked streaming appenders that want to break up log > >> events > >> into individual messages as opposed to how the file-type streaming > >> appenders work. > >> > >> On 20 July 2017 at 14:53, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Now JsonLayout, XmlLayout, YamlLayout and GelfLayout has an > >>> includeNullDelimiter option to terminate each log event with a 0-byte. > >>> > >>> Would it be useful to have the same in any other layout? > >>> > >>> I could think of HtmlLayout, SyslogLayout and RFC5424Layout. > >>> > >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >
