Hi,
I'm working on an program that is to receive CTF stream packets
and convert the contained events to a different format.
After reading through the babeltrace2 C API docs, I'm not
sure if it's possible to access the internal AST and parser
utilities used by the internal plugins, either manually
or through a source component plugin.
With a metadata text file at hand, is there a way to parse
CTF stream packet sitting in memory?
I'm trying to avoid having to write the in-memory packets to disk
first, and then use the source.ctf.fs component class to read them
back in as babeltrace2 API types.
For context, I have a few micros instrumented with barectf.
Depending on the deployment mode, I'm either sending CTF stream
packets out over serial or reading a ring buffer of packets via JTAG.
I can see this also being useful in a couple other dimensions I'd eventually like to consider too:
* Implementing something lttng-relayd friendly for live viewer support (parsing some of the packet header fields)
* Stream clock overflow bookkeeping (it'd let me reduce the probe effect of have to manage a 32 or 64 bit clock on a 16 bit MCU)
Best,Jon