main reasons behind this:
- make adding/removing tags cheap
- make adding/removing fields cheap
- make parsing cheaper
- make parse -> decorate -> write out bytes metric flow much faster
Refactor serializer to use byte buffer
* Trim null characters in Value data format
Some producers (such as the paho embedded c mqtt client) add a null
character "\x00" to the end of a message. The Value parser would fail on
any message from such a producer.
* Trim whitespace and null in all Value data formats
* No unnecessary reassignments in Value data format parser
* Update change log for Value data format fix
in this commit:
- chunks out the http request body to avoid making very large
allocations.
- establishes a limit for the maximum http request body size that the
listener will accept.
- utilizes a pool of byte buffers to reduce GC pressure.
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.