Bug 219664

Summary: RFE: allow text output to a file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Karl Wirth <kwirth>
Component: sosAssignee: Adam Stokes <astokes>
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Version: 5.0CC: john
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Description Steve Conklin 2006-12-14 18:11:10 UTC 
This feature would provide an API to plugin writers that output to a file that
gets linked from the html report. The file object created should be accessible
from the plugin.
Comment 2 Adam Stokes 2008-03-04 00:35:56 UTC 
Please elaborate on this RFE.

Thanks,
Adam
Comment 3 Steve Conklin 2008-03-19 15:22:24 UTC 
There's alreasy an API that allows execution of a shell command (for example)
and places all output in a file that gets linked into the final report.

This request was for a way to allow the code in a plugin that generates output
to have the output from that plugin appear in a file linked in the report. So,
for one implementation, the plugin could make a call to the API and get back a
file object, then write to that. sos would set up the file behind that, and when
the plugin is done, the output gets included in the final report.

I hope that's clearer, My original descrption was terrible.

Steve