package filehandler

import "github.com/TLop503/LogCrunch/server/filehandler"

Index

• Constants
• func LogFileToData() (*structs.IntakeLogFileData, error)
• func RotateFile(filePath string, rotationDestination string, append bool) error
• func WriteToFile(path string, create bool, append bool, payload interface{}) error

Constants

const LOG_INTAKE_DESTINATION = "/var/log/LogCrunch/firehose.log"

Path to where

Functions

func LogFileToData

func LogFileToData() (*structs.IntakeLogFileData, error)

func RotateFile

func RotateFile(filePath string, rotationDestination string, append bool) error

RotateFile copies the contents of a file to a new location for archival purposes. filePath is the original file, rotationDestination is the new or existing file to write to append defines whether to append (true) or overwrite (false) any potentially existing data by default if the rotationDestination does not exist it will be created. Note! if file to rotate does not exist, this function just does nothing w/o error

func WriteToFile

func WriteToFile(path string, create bool, append bool, payload interface{}) error

WriteToFile writes a payload to a file, creating or appending based on flags. payload can be a string or any value that can be marshaled to JSON.