Hi all,
I'd like to create a codec to decode Ion, a binary data format. I'm new to both LogStash and Ruby.
The Codec how-to shows that I need to define a decode method that accepts a single parameter: a variable called data.
What type is data? The docs for input plugins appear to indicate that data will be a String containing the bytes that were last read from the input. Is that right?
I'm concerned that data might contain an incomplete Event. That would mean that a parser would not be able to do anything with it when it was passed in.
Since the decode method yields events as it decodes them, would it be possible to have some sort of InputStream-type value instead of a String?
Thanks for any guidance!