Re: [boost] [log] Review-ready version in the Vault

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Review-ready version in the Vault
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-16 12:54:02

Darryl Green wrote:

> I started trying to hack about the syslog sink to directly generate and
> send an RFC3164 message. I'm not quite sure how one should use the
> formatters and/or how to do a suitably general mapping of attributes to
> RFC3164 message fields. I need to do something like this:
> 
> ostringstream ss;
> ss << "<" facility * 8 + level << ">" << fmt::date_time< types
>> ("DateTime", fmt::keywords::format = "%b %d %H:%M:%S")) << " " <<
> host_name << " " << program_name << ": " << formatted_message;
> std::string s = ss.str();
> send(sock, s.c_str(), s.size());
> 
> Suggestions?

I think, the RFC3164 packet structure should not be achieved with 
formatters, at least not those exposed to the user. The protocol is the 
sink's implementation detail.