LogViewPlus Support

Encoding Base64

https://www.logviewplus.com/forum/Topic155.aspx

By SD - 3 May 2019

Hello, I use your product for the analysis of RabbitMQ trace logs, I configured the parser and logs are displayed, but the message (Payload) is encoded by Base64, I would like to ask if any built-in tools that would immediately decode the message (Payload) in plain text?
By LogViewPlus Support - 3 May 2019

Hi,

There is no solution at the moment, but this functionality would be relatively easy to implement as a Custom Post Processor where you just decode and then modify the Message:
https://www.logviewplus.com/docs/post_processors.html

You can find sample code for custom extensions here:
http://www.logviewplus.com/dist/LogViewPlus_Samples.zip
https://www.logviewplus.com/docs/running_the_samples.html

I think this functionality is a both helpful and a bit niche.  It would be good to put it into the application, but I wouldn't want to confuse users who are not interested.  I will need to think a bit about how that could be done.

Thanks,

Toby
By SD - 3 May 2019

Thanks, it's working.
If anyone needs it, here's the code:
        public void Modify(LogEntry newEntry)
        {
            var message = newEntry.Message;
            var base64EncodedBytes = System.Convert.FromBase64String(message);
            newEntry.Message = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(base64EncodedBytes);
        }
By LogViewPlus Support - 3 May 2019

Glad to hear you got it working and thanks for posting your solution!  I will try and think of a way these snippets can be more easily shared.

Toby