com.splunk.modularinput
Class EventWriter

java.lang.Object
  com.splunk.modularinput.EventWriter

public class EventWriter
extends java.lang.Object

The EventWriter class encapsulates writing events and error messages to Splunk from a modular input. Its two important methods are writeEvent, which takes an Event object, and log, which takes a severity and an error message.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	DEBUG
static java.lang.String	ERROR
static java.lang.String	FATAL
static java.lang.String	INFO
static java.lang.String	WARN

Constructor Summary

EventWriter()

EventWriter(java.io.Writer outputWriter, java.io.Writer errorWriter)

Method Summary

boolean	checkError() Returns whether there was an IOException on this EventWriter.
void	close() Writes the closing tag to make this XML well formed.
void	log(java.lang.String severity, java.lang.String errorMessage) Logs messages about the state of this modular input to Splunk.
void	synchronizedLog(java.lang.String severity, java.lang.String errorMessage) Thread safe version of log.
void	synchronizedWriteEvent(Event event) Thread safe version of writeEvent.
void	writeEvent(Event event) Writes an Event object to Splunk.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEBUG

public static java.lang.String DEBUG

INFO

public static java.lang.String INFO

WARN

public static java.lang.String WARN

ERROR

public static java.lang.String ERROR

FATAL

public static java.lang.String FATAL

Constructor Detail

EventWriter

public EventWriter()
            throws javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException

Throws:

javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException

EventWriter

public EventWriter(java.io.Writer outputWriter,
                   java.io.Writer errorWriter)
            throws javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException

Throws:

javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException

Method Detail

checkError

public boolean checkError()

Returns whether there was an IOException on this EventWriter. EventWriter does not throw IOException errors, but does not ignore them entirely either. Instead it operates the same way as PrintStream in the standard library. You can always check if an IOException has been thrown by calling checkError.

synchronizedWriteEvent

public void synchronizedWriteEvent(Event event)
                            throws MalformedDataException

Thread safe version of writeEvent.

Throws:

MalformedDataException

See Also:

writeEvent(com.splunk.modularinput.Event)

writeEvent

public void writeEvent(Event event)
                throws MalformedDataException

Writes an Event object to Splunk. This method is not thread safe. If you need a thread safe version, use synchronizedWriteEvent. If you try to write an Event with null data, throws MalformedDataException.

Parameters:

event - The Event object to write.

Throws:

MalformedDataException

See Also:

synchronizedWriteEvent(com.splunk.modularinput.Event)

synchronizedLog

public void synchronizedLog(java.lang.String severity,
                            java.lang.String errorMessage)

Thread safe version of log.

See Also:

log(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

log

public void log(java.lang.String severity,
                java.lang.String errorMessage)

Logs messages about the state of this modular input to Splunk. These messages will show up in Splunk's internal logs.

Parameters:

severity - The severity (e.g., EventWriter.WARN, EventWriter.FATAL) of this message.

errorMessage - The message that should appear in the logs.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

See Also:

synchronizedLog(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

close

public void close()

Writes the closing tag to make this XML well formed.

Throws:

javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException