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balm::MetricDescription Class Reference

#include <balm_metricdescription.h>

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Public Types

typedef int UserDataKey

Public Member Functions

 MetricDescription (const Category *category, const char *name, bslma::Allocator *basicAllocator=0)
void setName (const char *name)
void setCategory (const Category *category)
void setPreferredPublicationType (PublicationType::Value type)
void setFormat (const bsl::shared_ptr< const MetricFormat > &format)
void setUserData (UserDataKey key, const void *value)
const char * name () const
const Categorycategory () const
PublicationType::Value preferredPublicationType () const
bsl::shared_ptr< const
MetricFormat > 
format () const
const void * userData (UserDataKey key) const
bsl::ostream & print (bsl::ostream &stream) const
bsl::ostream & printDescription (bsl::ostream &stream) const

Detailed Description

This class provides a mechanism for describing a metric. A MetricDescription holds the category to which the metric belongs, and a null-terminated string containing the name of the metric.

See Component balm_metricdescription


Member Typedef Documentation


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

balm::MetricDescription::MetricDescription ( const Category category,
const char *  name,
bslma::Allocator basicAllocator = 0 
)

Create a metric description for the specified category and the specified name. Optionally specify a basicAllocator used to supply memory. If basicAllocator is 0, the currently installed default allocator is used. The initial value for preferredPublicationType is e_UNSPECIFIED, and the initial value for format is 0. The behavior is undefined unless name and category remain valid, and the contents of name remain unmodified, for the lifetime of this object.


Member Function Documentation

void balm::MetricDescription::setName ( const char *  name  ) 

Set the name of this metric description to the specified name. The behavior is undefined unless the contents of name remains valid and unmodified for the lifetime of this object.

void balm::MetricDescription::setCategory ( const Category category  ) 

Set the category of this metric description to the object at the specified category address. The behavior is undefined unless category remains valid for the lifetime of this object.

void balm::MetricDescription::setPreferredPublicationType ( PublicationType::Value  type  ) 

Set the preferred publication type of this metric to the specified type. The preferred publication type of this metric indicates the preferred aggregate to publish for this metric, or PublicationType::UNSPECIFIED if there is no preference. Note that there is no uniform definition for how publishers will interpret this value; an UNSPECIFIED value generally indicates that all the collected aggregates (total, count, minimum, and maximum value) should be published.

void balm::MetricDescription::setFormat ( const bsl::shared_ptr< const MetricFormat > &  format  ) 

Set the format for this metric description to the specified format.

void balm::MetricDescription::setUserData ( UserDataKey  key,
const void *  value 
)

Associate the specified value with the specified data key. The behavior is undefined unless key >= 0. Note that this method allows clients of balm to associate (opaque) application-specific information with a metric.

const char* balm::MetricDescription::name (  )  const

Return the address of the non-modifiable, null-terminated string containing the name of the described metric.

const Category* balm::MetricDescription::category (  )  const

Return the address of the non-modifiable category object indicating the category of the metric described by this object.

PublicationType::Value balm::MetricDescription::preferredPublicationType (  )  const

Return the preferred publication type of this metric. The preferred publication type of this metric indicates the preferred aggregate to publish for this metric, or PublicationType::UNSPECIFIED if there is no preference. Note that there is no uniform definition for how publishers will interpret this value; an UNSPECIFIED value generally indicates that the all the collected aggregates (total, count, minimum, and maximum value) should be published.

bsl::shared_ptr<const MetricFormat> balm::MetricDescription::format (  )  const

Return a shared pointer to the non-modifiable format for this metric description. Note that the returned shared pointer may be null if a format has not been provided for the described metric.

const void* balm::MetricDescription::userData ( UserDataKey  key  )  const

Return the non-modifiable value associated with the specified user-data key. If the data for key has not been set, a value of 0 is returned, which is indistinguishable from a valid key with a 0 value. The behavior is undefined unless key >= 0. Note that this method allows clients of balm to access the (opaque) application-specific information that they have previously associated with a metric (via setUserData).

bsl::ostream& balm::MetricDescription::print ( bsl::ostream &  stream  )  const

Print the category and name of this metric description to the specified output stream in some single-line human-readable form, and return a reference to the modifiable stream.

bsl::ostream& balm::MetricDescription::printDescription ( bsl::ostream &  stream  )  const

Print the properties of this metric description to the specified output stream in some single-line human-readable form, and return a reference to the modifiable stream.


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