# README
Grok
This is a fork of github.com/vjeantet/grok with improved concurrency. This fork is not 100% API compatible but the underlying implementation is (mostly) the same.
The main intention of this fork is to get rid of all the mutexes in this library to make it scale properly when using multiple go routines. Also as grok is an extension of the regexp package the function scheme of this library should be closer to golang's regexp package.
Changes
- All patterns have to be known at creation time
- No storage of known grok expressions (has to be done be the user, similar to the go regexp package)
- No Mutexes used anymore (this library now scales as it should)
- No Graphsort required anymore to resolve dependencies
- All known patterns text files have been converted to go maps
- Structured code to make it easier to maintain
- Added tgo.ttesting dependencies for easier to write unittests
- Fixed type hint case sensitivity and added string type
- Added []byte based functions
Benchmarks
Original version
BenchmarkNew-8 2000 899731 ns/op 720324 B/op 3438 allocs/op
BenchmarkCaptures-8 10000 200695 ns/op 4570 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkCapturesTypedFake-8 10000 197983 ns/op 4571 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkCapturesTypedReal-8 10000 206392 ns/op 4754 B/op 16 allocs/op
BenchmarkParallelCaptures-8 10000 208389 ns/op 4570 B/op 5 allocs/op (added locally)
This version
BenchmarkNew-8 5000 357586 ns/op 285374 B/op 1611 allocs/op
BenchmarkCaptures-8 10000 200825 ns/op 4570 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkCapturesTypedFake-8 10000 197306 ns/op 4570 B/op 5 allocs/op
BenchmarkCapturesTypedReal-8 10000 194882 ns/op 4140 B/op 12 allocs/op
BenchmarkParallelCaptures-8 30000 55583 ns/op 4576 B/op 5 allocs/op
Improvements
BenchmarkNew-8 +150%
BenchmarkParallelCaptures-8 +274%
# Functions
New returns a Grok object that caches a given set of patterns and creates compiled grok patterns based on the passed configuration settings.
# Variables
DefaultPatterns is a collection of patterns that are added to each Grok instance if not explicitly disabled.
# Structs
CompiledGrok represents a compiled Grok expression.
Config is used to pass a set of configuration values to the grok.New function.
Grok holds a cache of known pattern substitions and acts as a builder for compiled grok patterns.