Introduced a alternated interface to rrd_graph using rrd_info style return

[rrdtool.git] / bindings / perl-shared / RRDs.pm

diff --git a/bindings/perl-shared/RRDs.pm b/bindings/perl-shared/RRDs.pm
index 3e77a2a..757e5ce 100644 (file)
--- a/bindings/perl-shared/RRDs.pm
+++ b/bindings/perl-shared/RRDs.pm
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ the values of the properties.
    print "$key = $$hash{$key}\n";
  }
 
+B<RRDs::graphv> takes the same paramters as B<RRDs::graph> but it returns a
+pointer to hash. The hash returned contains meta information about the
+graph. Like its size as well as the position of the graph area on the image.
+When calling with and empty filename than the contents of the graph will be
+returned in the hash as well (key 'image').
+
 B<RRDs::updatev> also returns a pointer to hash. The keys of the hash
 are concatenated strings of a timestamp, RRA index, and data source name for
 each consolidated data point (CDP) written to disk as a result of the