[Oisf-users] JSON output for alerts

[Victor Julien]

On 03/11/2013 03:29 PM, Brian Rectanus wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Victor Julien <lists at inliniac.net> wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 12:46 PM, Aaron Nikula wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have been experimenting with the /files/-/json/./log /output and I
>>> like it a lot. I was wondering if I could also output regular alerts to
>>> a JSON format? If not, are there any plans to implement that feature?
>>
>> I'd like to do that as well. Have been thinking about adding this as an
>> option to all outputs. Care to open a feature ticket?
>>
> 
> FYI, take a look at yajl lib for JSON if your looking for a lib.
> Seems pretty nice and very light.  We are using it in ironbee now.
> 
> http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/

Thanks Brian.

We already use libjansson for the unix socket protocol, so using this
would require some refactoring. Do you think this yajl will bring big
benefits over libjansson?

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