Re: [linuxtools-dev] Alternative LTTng TMF Eclipse Plugin Input Formats

[Chris Meek <cmeek at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I searched through the source code for the 
TMF plugin and found some files relating to a custom text parser input 
wizard. I tried enabling that wizard in the Extensions section of the 
Plugin.xml file. Then, after building and running the project, I went 
File > New > Other > TMF > Custom Text Parser. Unfortunately when I 
clicked next, I got a NullPointerException :(. I really thought this 
would work! Do you have any idea what could be the problem in this case? 
Or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help,
Chris

On 05/27/2011 02:05 PM, Francois Chouinard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If your traces are in binary, you will have to either provide a parser
> or convert them to LTTgn binary format (using e.g. BabelTrace).
>
> If your traces are in text, you might have better luck: if you have
> XML traces or if your trace can be parsed using a regex then you can
> use TMF to dynamically create (and store) a parser that will read your
> trace and import it in the environment.
>
> This stuff is in the released code base and works for our internal
> tools but is not advertised or even documented in the User Guide: the
> User Guide is only for LTTng while this feature is part of the
> underlying framework (TMF) that is not yet split from LTTng. TMF is
> also the foundation for the upcoming GDB Tracepoints and UST (User
> Space Tracing) that haven't been released yet.
>
> Since we haven't released yet any interesting tools to analyze
> non-LTTng traces, you will be more or less limited to viewing,
> searching, filtering, etc, from the Events View... Unless you write
> your own and (being a great guy) contribute it back :-)
>
> Anyway, if you have more specific questions about parsing or text
> parsing, feel free to ask.
>
> Regards,
> /fc
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Chris Meek<cmeek@redhat.com>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if it is possible to import trace files into the LTTng TMF
> > Eclipse Plugin in any format other than the binary LTTng traces.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
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