sd_journal_add_match, sd_journal_add_disjunction, sd_journal_add_conjunction, sd_journal_flush_matches — Add or remove entry matches
#include <systemd/sd-journal.h>
int sd_journal_add_match( | sd_journal *j, |
| const void *data, | |
size_t size); |
int sd_journal_add_disjunction( | sd_journal *j); |
int sd_journal_add_conjunction( | sd_journal *j); |
void sd_journal_flush_matches( | sd_journal *j); |
sd_journal_add_match() adds a match by
which to filter the entries of the journal file. Matches applied
with this call will filter what can be iterated through and read
from the journal file via calls like
sd_journal_next(3)
and
sd_journal_get_data(3).
Parameter data must be of the form
"FIELD=valueFIELD part is a short uppercase string consisting only
of 0–9, A–Z and the underscore; it may not begin with two underscores or be the empty
string. The value part may be anything, including binary. Parameter
size specifies the number of bytes in data
(i.e. the length of FIELD, plus one, plus the length of
value). Parameter size may also be
specified as 0, in which case data
must be a NUL-terminated string, and the bytes before the terminating
zero are used as the match.
If a match is applied, only entries with this field set will be iterated. Multiple matches may be active at the same time: If they apply to different fields, only entries with both fields set like this will be iterated. If they apply to the same fields, only entries where the field takes one of the specified values will be iterated. Well known fields are documented in systemd.journal-fields(7). Whenever a new match is added the current entry position is reset, and sd_journal_next(3) (or a similar call) needs to be called before entries can be read again.
sd_journal_add_disjunction() may be
used to insert a disjunction (i.e. logical OR) in the match list.
If this call is invoked, all previously added matches since the
last invocation of
sd_journal_add_disjunction() or
sd_journal_add_conjunction() are combined in
an OR with all matches added afterwards, until
sd_journal_add_disjunction() or
sd_journal_add_conjunction() is invoked again
to begin the next OR or AND term.
sd_journal_add_conjunction() may be
used to insert a conjunction (i.e. logical AND) in the match list.
If this call is invoked, all previously added matches since the
last invocation of
sd_journal_add_conjunction() are combined in
an AND with all matches added afterwards, until
sd_journal_add_conjunction() is invoked again
to begin the next AND term. The combination of
sd_journal_add_match(),
sd_journal_add_disjunction() and
sd_journal_add_conjunction() may be used to
build complex search terms, even though full logical expressions
are not available. Note that
sd_journal_add_conjunction() operates one
level 'higher' than
sd_journal_add_disjunction(). It is hence
possible to build an expression of AND terms, consisting of OR
terms, consisting of AND terms, consisting of OR terms of matches
(the latter OR expression is implicitly created for matches with
the same field name, see above).
sd_journal_flush_matches() may be used
to flush all matches, disjunction and conjunction terms again.
After this call all filtering is removed and all entries in the
journal will be iterated again.
Note that filtering via matches only applies to the way the journal is read, it has no effect on storage on disk.
sd_journal_add_match(),
sd_journal_add_disjunction() and
sd_journal_add_conjunction()
return 0 on success or a negative errno-style error
code. sd_journal_flush_matches()
returns nothing.
These APIs are implemented as a shared
library, which can be compiled and linked to with the
libsystemd pkg-config(1)
file.
The following example adds matches to a journal context object to iterate only through messages generated by the Avahi service at the four error log levels, plus all messages of the message ID 03bb1dab98ab4ecfbf6fff2738bdd964 coming from any service (this example lacks the necessary error checking):
…
int add_matches(sd_journal *j) {
sd_journal_add_match(j, "_SYSTEMD_UNIT=avahi-daemon.service", 0);
sd_journal_add_match(j, "PRIORITY=0", 0);
sd_journal_add_match(j, "PRIORITY=1", 0);
sd_journal_add_match(j, "PRIORITY=2", 0);
sd_journal_add_match(j, "PRIORITY=3", 0);
sd_journal_add_disjunction(j);
sd_journal_add_match(j, "MESSAGE_ID=03bb1dab98ab4ecfbf6fff2738bdd964", 0);
}