ECS 3 Developer Tutorial - MDL Attribute Types

Example Event Attribute Type

In the following MDL example, the event attribute date has type SimpleDate. This type is further defined as a collection of year, month, and day attributes of type Integer.

syntax SimpleMDL
	attributes
		date		SimpleDate,
		severity	Integer,
		text		String
	format
		date,
		" ",
		severity	width=1,
		newline,
		text		width=var justify=left,
		"#"

type SimpleDate
	attributes
		year		Integer,
		month		Integer,
		day		Integer
	format
		year		width=4 justify=right pad="0",
		"/",
		month		width=2 justify=right pad="0",
		"/",
		day		width=2 justify=right pad="0"