Don't bait me Mr. Swift! :-) Gary
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually stick to big endian encoding while on the JVM thanks to > ByteBuffer making it easy. If you write your own byte buffer style class, > then it doesn't really matter which endianness you choose as you'll have to > split up larger primitives into bytes regardless. > > On 21 July 2017 at 15:10, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The trick is to define "length": what is the size and endianness for this > > integer and are either configurable? I think JMeter has some code for > that. > > > > But at that point, why not use the BSON for uint64 (little-endian ? > > > > Gary > > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Exactly! I've seen similar encodings used in simple TCP framing. It > > should > > > be robust enough for logging (no need for additional metadata). > > > > > > On 21 July 2017 at 14:39, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >
