/// <summary>
/// Create a new metric packet with the specified unique name.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>At any one time there should only be one metric with a given name.
/// This name is used to correlate metrics between sessions.</remarks>
/// <param name="metricDefinitionPacket">The metric definition to create a metric instance for.</param>
/// <param name="instanceName">The name of the metric instance, or an empty string ("") to create a default instance.</param>
protected MetricPacket(MetricDefinitionPacket metricDefinitionPacket, string instanceName)
: base(false)
{
//verify our input. instance name can be null or an empty string; we'll coalesce all those cases to null
if (metricDefinitionPacket == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(metricDefinitionPacket));
}
DefinitionId = metricDefinitionPacket.ID; //it's really important we set this and not rely on people just picking up the metric packet for some of our other code
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(instanceName) == false)
{
InstanceName = instanceName.Trim();
}
//force empty strings to null.
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(InstanceName))
{
InstanceName = null;
}
//process setting our definition through the common routine. This has to be AFTER we set our definition ID and instance name above.
DefinitionPacket = metricDefinitionPacket;
Persisted = false; // we haven't been written to the log yet.
}
/// <summary>
/// Compares the current object with another object of the same type.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="other">The object to compare this object with.</param>
/// <returns>Zero if the objects are equal, less than zero if this object is less than the other, more than zero if this object is more than the other.</returns>
public int CompareTo(MetricDefinitionPacket other)
{
//quick identity comparison based on guid
if (ID == other.ID)
{
return(0);
}
//Now we try to stort by name. We already guard against uniqueness
int compareResult = string.Compare(Name, other.Name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
return(compareResult);
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if the provided object is identical to this object.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="other">The object to compare this object to</param>
/// <returns>True if the objects represent the same data.</returns>
public bool Equals(MetricDefinitionPacket other)
{
//Careful - can be null
if (other == null)
{
return(false); // since we're a live object we can't be equal.
}
return((MetricTypeName == other.MetricTypeName) &&
(CategoryName == other.CategoryName) &&
(CounterName == other.CounterName) &&
(SampleType == other.SampleType) &&
(Caption == other.Caption) &&
(Description == other.Description) &&
(Interval == other.Interval) &&
(base.Equals(other)));
}
public IPacket CreatePacket(PacketDefinition definition, IFieldReader reader)
{
IPacket packet;
if (definition.TypeName == m_SampledMetricDefinitionPacketType)
{
//sampled metrics can't be created directly - they're an abstract class.
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(definition), definition.TypeName, "Sampled Metric objects can't be created, only derived classes can.");
}
//what we create varies by what specific definition they're looking for
if (definition.TypeName == m_MetricDefinitionPacketType)
{
packet = new MetricDefinitionPacket(m_Session);
}
else if (definition.TypeName == m_EventMetricDefinitionPacketType)
{
packet = new EventMetricDefinitionPacket(m_Session);
}
else if (definition.TypeName == m_EventMetricValueDefinitionPacketType)
{
packet = new EventMetricValueDefinitionPacket(m_Session);
}
else if (definition.TypeName == m_CustomSampledMetricDefinitionPacketType)
{
packet = new CustomSampledMetricDefinitionPacket(m_Session);
}
else
{
//crap, we don't know what to do here.
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(definition), definition.TypeName, "This packet factory doesn't undersatnd how to create packets for the provided type.");
}
//this feels a little crazy, but you have to do your own read call here - we aren't just creating the packet
//object, we actually have to make the standard call to have it read data...
definition.ReadFields(packet, reader);
return(packet);
}