org.rhq.core.pluginapi.event.log
Interface LogEntryProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

Log4JLogEntryProcessor, MultiLineLogEntryProcessor

public interface LogEntryProcessor

A processor for entries from a log file. Each LogEntryProcessor instance is associated with a LogFileEventPoller. Whenever the LogFileEventPoller's poll() method detects new lines have been appended to the log file is is tailing, it calls the processLines(java.io.BufferedReader) method, passing it a buffered reader containing the new lines.

Method Summary

Set<Event>

processLines(BufferedReader bufferedReader) Processes the specified lines from a log file, and returns a set of Events if appropriate, or otherwise, null.

Method Detail

processLines

@Nullable
Set<Event> processLines(BufferedReader bufferedReader)
                        throws IOException

Processes the specified lines from a log file, and returns a set of Events if appropriate, or otherwise, null.

Parameters:

bufferedReader - a buffered reader from which the lines can be read

Returns:

a set of Events if appropriate, or otherwise, null

Throws:

IOException - if reading lines from the supplied buffer reader fails