sd_journal_get_data
systemd
sd_journal_get_data
3
sd_journal_get_data
sd_journal_enumerate_data
sd_journal_restart_data
SD_JOURNAL_FOREACH_DATA
sd_journal_set_data_threshold
sd_journal_get_data_threshold
Read data fields from the current journal entry
#include <systemd/sd-journal.h>
int sd_journal_get_data
sd_journal *j
const char *field
const void **data
size_t *length
int sd_journal_enumerate_data
sd_journal *j
const void **data
size_t *length
void sd_journal_restart_data
sd_journal *j
SD_JOURNAL_FOREACH_DATA
sd_journal *j
const void *data
size_t length
int sd_journal_set_data_threshold
sd_journal *j
size_t sz
int sd_journal_get_data_threshold
sd_journal *j
size_t *sz
Description
sd_journal_get_data() gets the data
object associated with a specific field from the current journal
entry. It takes four arguments: the journal context object, a
string with the field name to request, plus a pair of pointers to
pointer/size variables where the data object and its size shall be
stored in. The field name should be an entry field name.
Well-known field names are listed in
systemd.journal-fields7.
The returned data is in a read-only memory map and is only valid
until the next invocation of
sd_journal_get_data() or
sd_journal_enumerate_data(), or the read
pointer is altered. Note that the data returned will be prefixed
with the field name and '='. Also note that, by default, data fields
larger than 64K might get truncated to 64K. This threshold may be
changed and turned off with
sd_journal_set_data_threshold() (see
below).
sd_journal_enumerate_data() may be used
to iterate through all fields of the current entry. On each
invocation the data for the next field is returned. The order of
these fields is not defined. The data returned is in the same
format as with sd_journal_get_data() and also
follows the same life-time semantics.
sd_journal_restart_data() resets the
data enumeration index to the beginning of the entry. The next
invocation of sd_journal_enumerate_data()
will return the first field of the entry again.
Note that the SD_JOURNAL_FOREACH_DATA()
macro may be used as a handy wrapper around
sd_journal_restart_data() and
sd_journal_enumerate_data().
Note that these functions will not work before
sd_journal_next3
(or related call) has been called at least once, in order to
position the read pointer at a valid entry.
sd_journal_set_data_threshold() may be
used to change the data field size threshold for data returned by
sd_journal_get_data(),
sd_journal_enumerate_data() and
sd_journal_enumerate_unique(). This threshold
is a hint only: it indicates that the client program is interested
only in the initial parts of the data fields, up to the threshold
in size — but the library might still return larger data objects.
That means applications should not rely exclusively on this
setting to limit the size of the data fields returned, but need to
apply an explicit size limit on the returned data as well. This
threshold defaults to 64K by default. To retrieve the complete
data fields this threshold should be turned off by setting it to
0, so that the library always returns the complete data objects.
It is recommended to set this threshold as low as possible since
this relieves the library from having to decompress large
compressed data objects in full.
sd_journal_get_data_threshold() returns
the currently configured data field size threshold.
Return Value
sd_journal_get_data() returns 0 on
success or a negative errno-style error code. If the current entry
does not include the specified field, -ENOENT is returned. If
sd_journal_next3
has not been called at least once, -EADDRNOTAVAIL is returned.
sd_journal_enumerate_data() returns a
positive integer if the next field has been read, 0 when no more
fields are known, or a negative errno-style error code.
sd_journal_restart_data() returns nothing.
sd_journal_set_data_threshold() and
sd_journal_get_threshold() return 0 on
success or a negative errno-style error code.
Notes
Examples
See
sd_journal_next3
for a complete example how to use
sd_journal_get_data().
Use the
SD_JOURNAL_FOREACH_DATA macro to
iterate through all fields of the current journal
entry:
…
int print_fields(sd_journal *j) {
const void *data;
size_t length;
SD_JOURNAL_FOREACH_DATA(j, data, length)
printf("%.*s\n", (int) length, data);
}
…
See Also
systemd1,
systemd.journal-fields7,
sd-journal3,
sd_journal_open3,
sd_journal_next3,
sd_journal_get_realtime_usec3,
sd_journal_query_unique3