Add SerializeBatch method to the Serializer interface (#4107)

plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package graphite
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"regexp"
@@ -60,6 +61,21 @@ func (s *GraphiteSerializer) Serialize(metric telegraf.Metric) ([]byte, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (s *GraphiteSerializer) SerializeBatch(metrics []telegraf.Metric) ([]byte, error) {
+	var batch bytes.Buffer
+	for _, m := range metrics {
+		buf, err := s.Serialize(m)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		_, err = batch.Write(buf)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return batch.Bytes(), nil
+}
+
 func formatValue(value interface{}) string {
 	switch v := value.(type) {
 	case string:

plugins/serializers/graphite/graphite_test.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 
+	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf"
 	"github.com/influxdata/telegraf/metric"
 )
 
@@ -577,3 +578,32 @@ func TestClean(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSerializeBatch(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Unix(1234567890, 0)
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		metric_name string
+		tags        map[string]string
+		fields      map[string]interface{}
+		expected    string
+	}{
+		{
+			"Base metric",
+			"cpu",
+			map[string]string{"host": "localhost"},
+			map[string]interface{}{"usage_busy": float64(8.5)},
+			"localhost.cpu.usage_busy 8.5 1234567890\nlocalhost.cpu.usage_busy 8.5 1234567890\n",
+		},
+	}
+
+	s := GraphiteSerializer{}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m, err := metric.New(tt.metric_name, tt.tags, tt.fields, now)
+			assert.NoError(t, err)
+			actual, _ := s.SerializeBatch([]telegraf.Metric{m, m})
+			require.Equal(t, tt.expected, string(actual))
+		})
+	}
+}