"a TypeError exception will be raised.";
static char meta_doc[] = "These are the meta data for this Value object.\n"
- "It has to be a dictionary of numbers, strings or bools.\n"
- "If the dict contains anything else a TypeError exception will be raised.";
+ "It has to be a dictionary of numbers, strings or bools. All keys must be\n"
+ "strings. int and long objects will be dispatched as signed integers unless\n"
+ "they are between 2**63 and 2**64-1, which will result in a unsigned integer.\n"
+ "You can force one of these storage classes by using the classes\n"
+ "collectd.Signed and collectd.Unsigned. A meta object received by a write\n"
+ "callback will always contain Signed or Unsigned objects.";
static char dispatch_doc[] = "dispatch([type][, values][, plugin_instance][, type_instance]"
"[, plugin][, host][, time][, interval]) -> None. Dispatch a value list.\n"
return NULL;
self->values = PyList_New(0);
+ self->meta = PyDict_New();
self->interval = 0;
return (PyObject *) self;
}
tmp = self->values;
self->values = values;
- self->meta = meta;
Py_XDECREF(tmp);
+ tmp = self->meta;
+ self->meta = meta;
+ Py_XDECREF(tmp);
+
self->interval = interval;
return 0;
}
if (PyErr_Occurred())
cpy_log_exception("building meta data");
Py_XDECREF(value);
- Py_DECREF(keystring);
+ Py_DECREF(key);
}
return m;
}
Notification_new /* tp_new */
};
+static char Signed_doc[] = "This is a long by another name. Use it in meta data dicts\n"
+ "to choose the way it is stored in the meta data.";
+
PyTypeObject SignedType = {
CPY_INIT_TYPE
"collectd.Signed", /* tp_name */
0, /* tp_setattro */
0, /* tp_as_buffer */
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /*tp_flags*/
+ Signed_doc /* tp_doc */
};
+static char Unsigned_doc[] = "This is a long by another name. Use it in meta data dicts\n"
+ "to choose the way it is stored in the meta data.";
+
PyTypeObject UnsignedType = {
CPY_INIT_TYPE
"collectd.Unsigned", /* tp_name */
0, /* tp_setattro */
0, /* tp_as_buffer */
Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE, /*tp_flags*/
+ Unsigned_doc /* tp_doc */
};