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PMPARSEMETRICSPEC(3)      Library Functions Manual      PMPARSEMETRICSPEC(3)

NAME         top

       pmParseMetricSpec,  pmFreeMetricSpec  -  uniform metric specification
       parser

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
       int pmParseMetricSpec(const char *string, int isarch, char *source,
               pmMetricSpec **rsltp, char **errmsg);
       void pmFreeMetricSpec(pmMetricSpec *rslt);
       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION         top

       pmParseMetricSpec accepts a string specifying the name of a PCP
       performance metric, and optionally the source (either a hostname or a
       PCP archive log filename) and instances for that metric.  The syntax
       is described in PCPIntro(1).
       If neither host nor archive component of the metric specification is
       provided, the isarch and source arguments are used to fill in the
       returned pmMetricSpec structure.
       The pmMetricSpec structure that is returned via rsltp represents the
       parsed string and has the following declaration:
           typedef struct {
               int     isarch;      /* source type: 0 -> live host, 1 -> archive, 2 -> local context */
               char    *source;     /* name of source host or archive */
               char    *metric;     /* name of metric */
               int     ninst;       /* number of instances, 0 -> all */
               char    *inst[1];    /* array of instance names */
           } pmMetricSpec;
       pmParseMetricSpec returns 0 if the given string was successfully
       parsed.  In this case all the storage allocated by pmParseMetricSpec
       can be released by a single call to free(3) using the address
       returned from pmMetricSpec via rsltp.  The convenience macro
       pmFreeMetricSpec is a thinly disguised wrapper for free(3).
       pmParseMetricSpec returns PM_ERR_GENERIC and a dynamically allocated
       error message string in errmsg, if the given string does not parse.
       Be sure to free(3) the error message string in this situation.
       In the case of an error, rsltp is undefined.  In the case of success,
       errmsg is undefined.  If rsltp->ninst is 0, then rsltp->inst[0] is
       undefined.

SEE ALSO         top

       PMAPI(3) and pmLookupName(3).

COLOPHON         top

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