Previously, the graphite parser would simply overwrite any template that
had an identical filter to a previous template. This included the empty
filter.
Now we will still overwrite, but first we will sort to make sure that
the most "specific" template always matches.
closes#1731
* Allow numeric and non-string values for tag_keys.
According to the go documentation the JSON deserializer only produces these
base types in output:
- string
- bool
- float64
- nil
With this patch bool, float64 and nil values get converted to a string when
their field key is specified in tag_keys. Previously the field was simply
discarded.
* Updated handling of nil for passing tests.
The automated tests are less than trivial to reproduece locally for me,
so I hope CircleCI wonn't mind...
* Updated changelog entries with PR and issue links.
This constitutes a large change in how we will parse different data
formats going forward (for the plugins that support it)
This is working off @henrypfhu's changes.
Cameron Sparr
Daniele Gozzi
Thibault Cohen
Chris H (CruftMaster)