ascii.zeek

InputAscii

Interface for the ascii input reader.

The defaults are set to match Zeek’s ASCII output.

Namespace: InputAscii

Summary

Redefinable Options

`InputAscii::empty_field`: `string` `&redef`	String to use for empty fields.
`InputAscii::fail_on_file_problem`: `bool` `&redef`	Fail on file read problems.
`InputAscii::fail_on_invalid_lines`: `bool` `&redef`	Fail on invalid lines.
`InputAscii::path_prefix`: `string` `&redef`	On input streams with a pathless or relative-path source filename, prefix the following path.
`InputAscii::separator`: `string` `&redef`	Separator between fields.
`InputAscii::set_separator`: `string` `&redef`	Separator between set and vector elements.
`InputAscii::unset_field`: `string` `&redef`	String to use for an unset &optional field.

Detailed Interface

Redefinable Options

InputAscii::empty_field 

Type: string
Attributes: &redef
Default: "(empty)"

String to use for empty fields.

InputAscii::fail_on_file_problem 

Type: bool
Attributes: &redef
Default: F

Fail on file read problems. If set to true, the ascii input reader will fail when encountering any problems while reading a file different from invalid lines. Examples of such problems are permission problems, or missing files. When set to false, these problems will be ignored. This has an especially big effect for the REREAD mode, which will seamlessly recover from read errors when a file is only temporarily inaccessible. For MANUAL or STREAM files, errors will most likely still be fatal since no automatic re-reading of the file is attempted. Individual readers can use a different value using the $config table. fail_on_file_problem = T was the default behavior until Bro 2.6.

InputAscii::fail_on_invalid_lines 

Type: bool
Attributes: &redef
Default: F

Fail on invalid lines. If set to false, the ascii input reader will jump over invalid lines, reporting warnings in reporter.log. If set to true, errors in input lines will be handled as fatal errors for the reader thread; reading will abort immediately and an error will be logged to reporter.log. Individual readers can use a different value using the $config table. fail_on_invalid_lines = T was the default behavior until Bro 2.6.

InputAscii::path_prefix 

Type: string
Attributes: &redef
Default: ""

On input streams with a pathless or relative-path source filename, prefix the following path. This prefix can, but need not be, absolute. The default is to leave any filenames unchanged. This prefix has no effect if the source already is an absolute path.

InputAscii::separator 

Type: string
Attributes: &redef
Default: "\x09"

Separator between fields. Please note that the separator has to be exactly one character long.

InputAscii::set_separator 

Type: string
Attributes: &redef
Default: ","

Separator between set and vector elements. Please note that the separator has to be exactly one character long.

InputAscii::unset_field 

Type: string
Attributes: &redef
Default: "-"

String to use for an unset &optional field.