FileSystem? DataSource?
19/04/2005
It is a simple datasource to allow you to generate reports, charts or capture
data about parts of your filesystem.
For example, you can choose a specific directory and (optionally) recurse
through all subdirectories to sort and extract the ten biggest files, the
ten oldest files etc.
You could tie this in with a Text
DataSource? that reads an access log to plot
the file size versus the number of times accessed, or the files that contributed
the most to bandwidth etc.
You could use it to filter a log to only retain certain files of interest (by
joining with filtered or extracted filesystem records)
You could even use the
FileSystem? datasource to detect the name of the most
recently updated log file and pass it as a parameter to a
TextDataSource? to
load that specific one (idea related to Mantis 407).
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SooGuan - 27 Dec 2005