[rrd-developers] Re: API for reading RRD metadata

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Tiago Pedroso wrote:


> wouldn't it be great to have things like this:
>
> my $rrd = RRD->new->( filename => "my.rrd" );
>
> my $info = $rrd->info();
>
> foreach my $elem (keys %{$info->{ds}} {
>    print "dsname = $elem\n";
>    print "dst = ".$info->{ds}{$elem}{type}."\n";
>    print "hb = ".$info->{ds}{$elem}{minimal_heartbeat}."\n";
>    print "min = ".$info->{ds}{$elem}{min}."\n";
>    print "max = ".$info->{ds}{$elem}{max}."\n";
> }
>
> Am I being to demanding ? Well at least rddtool ships with a perl API

Hi Tiago,

not at all, but designing such an second level API in perl is much
simpler and IMHO the right thing todo as oposed to create such an
API in XS ... so if you wrote a second level API which not make it
availale to othrs to enjoy ...

cheers
tobi

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