vectordotdev / vectordotdev/vector
Add support for templated text to generator source
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Description
The generator source creates its output events from a fixed list of text lines. The only alterations possible to those lines comes from an optional sequence number prefix. It would be useful (for what?) to replace that fixed sequence number with a template generation facility, that could then include data generated by arbitrary sources such as fake.
Ref: https://github.com/timberio/vector/pull/2286#discussion_r406507467
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the generator source implementation and reading the discussion linked from PR 2286. Clarify what templated text should support, including the role of the sequence number and arbitrary data sources. Done requires an agreed scope and acceptance criteria before implementation can begin.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- observability-sre, stream-processing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100