On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:32 +1000, Tim Allen wrote:
True; if I had to make a complaint about t.p.log, it would be that this system for arbitrary event-sources to communicate with arbitrary event-observers needs a well-defined interface to facilitate communication. Currently, the only things an event-observer can rely on are the 'isError' and 'system' fields being present, and probably 'message' and 'time'. Any observer winds up either depending on extra fields set by a specific event-source (and hoping that no other event-source happens to use the same field-names for different purposes), or having to treat every event as a raw text event - defeating the point of logging complicated events in the first place.
The plan was (is) to switch to requiring a interface=IFooMessageType keyword. Some day :(