Recent changes to feature-requests

Create SLF4JReport

2006-03-13T10:53:53Z

There exists a wrapper library for the various existing
logging librarys SLF4J created by the founder of log4j.
Since Jacson already supports log4j we could use this
library to support different logging libraries as well.
Details http://www.slf4j.org.

Input source which groups lines

2005-09-20T12:54:58Z

It would be useful to have a source which group
multiple lines into one chunk. The grouping could be
done by delimiters.

It should be possible to group the following file

-----
create table x (
...
...
);

create table y (
...
...
);
-----

into two chunks by the delimiter ";".

The implementation could collect lines until the
delimiter is contained in a line.

LuceneSource

2004-11-10T09:00:41Z

Implement a JacsonSouce for a Lucene Index.
Inspired by LuceneDesktop http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/
2004/10/28/LotsOfInterestInLuceneDesktop.

Could it be possible to create such an application with the above
source and some XML using jacson?

KeyWordFilter

2004-06-17T11:31:22Z

A Filter filtering out a configurable number of key words.
The resulting key words could be used in a search request in a web
search engine.

BrokenLinkFilter

2004-03-30T12:42:36Z

Filter checking if a given link is still working.

Use Cases: Checking bookmark files, web pages, ...

Make Jacson create multiple Mail

2003-05-16T22:08:21Z

If one could extends the Jacson MailReport to create
mails not only on summary time, but in between (when?
on every event?), this in combination with the
JacsonTail file watching feature could make Jacson a
controll device for remote servers.

Integrate Jacson into JJacket

2003-05-12T22:06:45Z

JJacket seems to be a very interesting device. With
some deep integration Jacson could become the file
filtering language of JJacket..

Integrations could be:
* Commandline (as in the usual shell, done).
* Special JJacket commandline (more efficent, and
interact with the JJacket environment)
* Think about making jjacket plugable into JJacket
pipes. But pipes in Jjacket seem to be fairly new yet.

Make Sources pluggable

2003-05-12T20:52:22Z

To include a source other than the default LineChunkSource you have
to do hacking. There are different feature requests which deal with
hacking Jacson-Applications that work with different sources.

Why do we use a different approach to Sources than to every other
component of Jacson? Filters, Evaluators, Reports - everything
pluggable?

So why not extend JacsonChunkSource with a method
init(ConfigNode config) and plug in Sources like everything else?

It could be possible to include multiple sources by dealing with them
one after another.

Are there any design principles that would be injured if I would try
this?

Javadoc

2003-04-25T10:44:20Z

The javadoc is very poor and it does not help
extending the framework

Documentation

2003-04-08T12:24:29Z

Jacson consists of many plugabble components. To
fullfill the "configure not program" paradigm, a user
documentation of these
would be necessary.

The xslt documentation system allready includes some
hooks, so the idea would be to insert the user
documentation in the plugin class main JavaDoc section.
That would work immediately. Unfortunately there isn't
much helpful information in those sections yet and the
information is very different.

A style quide how the information should look should be
the Ant-Task documentation which has also been used by
the Jacson documentation on the Jacson Ant task.

To make the effort useful ASAP, the order of proceeding
should be per plugin type in that particular order:
1. Filters
2. Selections
3. Reports
4. Evaluators
5. Sources (not really plugins I know)