Generating a map file during 'create-image' makes a lot of sense. I
haven't tried without names enabled, but a .json file would make life
easier compared to digging around in an .elf file or something similar.
On 04/10/16 20:06, Sterling Hughes wrote:
As I’m going through the statistics module and documenting it, one
thing that occurs to me is for the case where STATS_NAME_ENABLE = 0,
and statistic names are omitted, we should create the statistic name
-> number mapping, in the target’s directory, in a machine parseable
format (i.e. JSON.) I’m thinking we should put this into the
manifest.json when we create an image, that way if a management system
wants to ingest this data, it can easily take this information, along
with the created image.
I thought about versioning the structure, however decided against it,
because:
- Manually updating the statistics version when it changes is error
prone, because people forget to change version numbers
- I think it is likely that any management system or user who wants to
interpret these values, will likely have the image definition for that
image, _AND_ will probably not do an exhaustive search of all images,
to find one that has a matching definition of version of statistics
that are found on that device. (likely:)
Comments welcome. Below is the documentation I’ve written at the top
of the module.
NOTE: Newt does not yet support generating statistics mappings in the
manifest.json, I’m adding that support to create-image now.
