metrics_controller

• |cargo test| -- builds the library and the main target for testing, runs unit tests
• |RUSTTESTTHREADS=1 cargo test --features integration| -- builds the library and the main target for testing, runs integration tests in serial
• |cargo clean| -- cleans out the target
• |cargo build| -- builds just the library
• |cargo doc| -- creates 'rustdoc' documentation

Toolchain

run |multirust override nightly-2016-05-07| to make sure you have the correct rust version.

Building on OSX El Capitan

When building from a clean state on MacOS El Capitan, if you see the following error:

failed to run custom build command for `openssl v0.7.6`
 ...
src/c_helpers.c:1:10: fatal error: 'openssl/ssl.h' file not found

export the following environment variables pointing to your openssl sdk. For example, if you have used homebrew to install openssl:

export OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/include/
export DEP_OPENSSL_INCLUDE=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2f/include/

Logging

The metrics library uses the env_logger package for logging functionality. Two notable features of this package are: * The log messages are written to stderror * An environment variable is used to determine the log level

The environment variable specifying the log level is CD_METRICS_LOG. For example, to set the log level to info when running the example program, the command line would be:

CD_METRICS_LOG=info target/debug/examples/main

This will enable info-level logging for the metrics library and all rust modules used by the metrics library. To limit the logging to metrics library messages, use the env_logger filtering mechanism and specify the prefix included in metrics library log messages -- CD-METRICS:

CD_METRICS_LOG=info/CD-METRICS target/debug/examples/main

And, of course, to redirect the log messages to a file:

CD_METRICS_LOG=info/CD-METRICS target/debug/examples/main 2> log

Javascript Wrapper

There is a Javascript wrapper called js/metrics.js that will facilitate metrics gathering for web based applications.

To invoke the integration test: 1. Install chai: |npm install chai| 2. Install mocha: |npm install mocha| 3. Load test/metrics_test.html in a browser.

Note that the test may take up to 3 minutes to execute as it's verifying the data was received at the server.

C interface

There is a C interface that can be used from C and Java applications.

To utilize this: 1. Run |cargo build| 2. This will create a target under ./target/debug/libmetricscontroller.dylib (Mac), .so (Linux), or .dll (Windows). 3. Refer to ./examples/ffitest.c for an example of how to invoke the library and for instructions to run the sample.