[collectd] curl_xml plugin

[Amit Gupta]

Haven't heard from anyone other than Marco.

Florian/Sebastian,

Any comments on the plugin will be appreciated.

Regards
Amit

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Amit Gupta <amit.gupta221 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any comments/suggestions for this proposed plugin?
>
> Regards
> Amit
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Amit Gupta <amit.gupta221 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been working on curl_xml plugin. The idea of this plugin is to
>> query the xml data using the curl library and parse it according to the
>> user's configuration using libxml2. I have worked on the top of curl-json
>> plugin code and got this plugin to work. I am proposing the following
>> configuration for curl_xml:
>>
>> <Plugin curl_xml>
>>    <URL "[some url]">
>>        Instance "<instance-name>"
>>        <xpath "<xpath1>">
>>           Instance "<instance-name>" (Optional)
>>           Type "<type>"
>>        </xpath>
>>        <xpath "<xpath2>">
>>           Instance "<instance-name>" (Optional)
>>           Type "<type>"
>>        </xpath>
>>   </URL>
>>   <URL .....>
>>      ......
>>    </URL>
>> </Plugin>
>>
>> libxml2 will parse the xml using xpath specified in the configuration. For
>> now, the attached code supports one xpath to one element mapping.
>>
>> Does this plugin make sense?. I will be submitting the configure, Makefile
>> and the documentation changes once this idea is approved.
>>
>> Regards
>> Amit
>>
>
>
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