> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Steinmaurer"<t...@iblogmanager.com> > To: "For discussion among Firebird > Developers"<firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Firebird-devel] Trace API - Service names in include filter? > > >>>> the fbtrace.conf sample file has examples on what services names one >>>> can/should use when using e.g. the include filter. I'm not sure if the >>>> following is ok or as designed, thus I'm checking here ... >>>> >>>> I want to trace Database Stats and I tried the following include filter >>>> samples: >>>> >>>> 1) include_filter %Database Stats% >>>> 2) include_filter Database Stats >>>> 3) include_filter %Stats% >>>> 4) include_filter "Database Stats" >>>> >>>> While 3) and 4) gave me a trace for e.g. when querying the header page, >>>> 1) and 2) didn't, which looks a bit weird, especially as: >>>> >>>> Database Stats >>>> >>>> is mentioned in the fbtrace.conf file. >>>> >>>> >>>> Is there an inconsistency here somewhere? >>> >>> The config file parser came from Vulcan and it is more like generic >>> XML-style >>> parser. It allows to have more than one value for given setting, i.e. >>> >>> include_filter %Database Stats% >>> >>> is interpreted as >>> setting name : include_filter >>> value1 : %Database >>> value2 : Stats% >>> >>> Caller code (trace plugin config reader) don't look for 2nd and all other >>> values. >>> >>> So, i recommend to enclose values with embedded spaces into quotes to >>> avoid confusion. >> >> Understood. >> >> Perhaps this is worth to be mentioned in fbtrace.conf, because one could >> think, due to the provided list, to use Database Stats (without quotes) >> etc. as filter? > > Hmm... it was so obvious for me that i even can't imagine such case ;)
I wasn't for me, as I didn't know Vulcan's config file parser. That's the reason why there are users. ;-) Looking forward to meet you at the conference, btw. > I'll edit fbtrace.conf to remove this confusion. Thanks. Regards, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
