[lttng-dev] Writing a babeltrace output plugin

[Julien Desfossez]

Hi,

>>> I have no other clues in mind [to using the public API] than
>>> looking at the examples already in there
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>> Where are the examples of using the public API?
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> There is a lttv tree currently under heavy development, and the lttngtop
> git tree on git.lttng.org.

I would recommend looking at this test program :
git://git.dorsal.polymtl.ca/~jdesfossez/babeltrace-api-test

It is a really basic program that uses most of the API.

Julien

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>>> for now, all converters are expected to be in-tree.
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>> Oh. So the way to go to add another output format for conversion from CTF is to
>> clone the formats/ctf-text directory and make changes as needed?
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> Yep.
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>> It would have been interesting to see the CTF output part as an example.
>> Can you say when such an option will be available?
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> We do not use the intermediate representation for CTF generation (see
> babeltrace-log.c): we generate the metadata directly as needed.
> Generating a CTF output from the CTF intermediate representation is not
> planned at this point, as it has very little use for us. LTTng-UST 2.0
> and LTTng-modules 2.0 both generate CTF natively.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
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>> Cheers,
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>> Fredrik
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