MINOR: sample: add "json" converter
This converter escapes string to use it as json/ascii escaped string.
It can read UTF-8 with differents behavior on errors and encode it in
json/ascii.
json([<input-code>])
Escapes the input string and produces an ASCII ouput string ready to use as a
JSON string. The converter tries to decode the input string according to the
<input-code> parameter. It can be "ascii", "utf8", "utf8s", "utf8"" or
"utf8ps". The "ascii" decoder never fails. The "utf8" decoder detects 3 types
of errors:
- bad UTF-8 sequence (lone continuation byte, bad number of continuation
bytes, ...)
- invalid range (the decoded value is within a UTF-8 prohibited range),
- code overlong (the value is encoded with more bytes than necessary).
The UTF-8 JSON encoding can produce a "too long value" error when the UTF-8
character is greater than 0xffff because the JSON string escape specification
only authorizes 4 hex digits for the value encoding. The UTF-8 decoder exists
in 4 variants designated by a combination of two suffix letters : "p" for
"permissive" and "s" for "silently ignore". The behaviors of the decoders
are :
- "ascii" : never fails ;
- "utf8" : fails on any detected errors ;
- "utf8s" : never fails, but removes characters corresponding to errors ;
- "utf8p" : accepts and fixes the overlong errors, but fails on any other
error ;
- "utf8ps" : never fails, accepts and fixes the overlong errors, but removes
characters corresponding to the other errors.
This converter is particularly useful for building properly escaped JSON for
logging to servers which consume JSON-formated traffic logs.
Example:
capture request header user-agent len 150
capture request header Host len 15
log-format {"ip":"%[src]","user-agent":"%[capture.req.hdr(1),json]"}
Input request from client 127.0.0.1:
GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Very "Ugly" UA 1/2
Output log:
{"ip":"127.0.0.1","user-agent":"Very \"Ugly\" UA 1\/2"}
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