Open dfederschmidt opened 1 year ago
Hi @dfederschmidt , I might get some free cycles to work on a PR, but I am not sure where do start. Do you have some docs you can point me out to? Thanks!
Hi @pirxthepilot - Thanks for considering to contribute!
In general, Splunk lookup table files can simply be CSV files in the lookups
folder of an App.
What we could do is we add a new type of TLD list. Currently, we support the values mozilla
, iana
and custom
.
Specifically, we could add a new mechanism inside this function: https://github.com/splunk/utbox/blob/c156de526bb8e86aeccd9a44a89e09f7fb937ff3/utbox/bin/ut_parse_lib.py#L102-L110
What I'm thinking is that we could add a pattern such as lookup:my_custom_list.csv
which would load a list located inside lookups/my_custom_list.csv
. Probably we would need another function eg. def _loadLookupList()
to load the file, similar to the other methods in https://github.com/splunk/utbox/blob/main/utbox/bin/ut_parse_lib.py
A limitation of this approach would be is that the lookup would have to be located inside of the app directory, so it's not possible to pass a lookup from another app context.
On how to develop on this app specifically, there is not really a whole lot of documentation right now - there is a brief mention on https://github.com/splunk/utbox#development-setup to get started. https://dev.splunk.com/ has the whole wealth of knowledge around how Splunk Apps work, but I think in this case, we don't need to dive too deep into that.
Currently, supplying a custom list requires editing
bin/suffix_list_custom.dat
. As an administrator, I'd like to supply my custom list via a Splunk Lookup that does not require me to create a fork of the app.