create.go

// Copyright 2014 The Prometheus Authors
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

// Package text contains helper functions to parse and create text-based
// exchange formats. The package currently supports (only) version 0.0.4 of the
// exchange format. Should other versions be supported in the future, some
// versioning scheme has to be applied. Possibilities include separate packages
// or separate functions. The best way depends on the nature of future changes,
// which is the reason why no versioning scheme has been applied prematurely
// here.
package text

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"math"
	"strings"

	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/model"
	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
)

// MetricFamilyToText converts a MetricFamily proto message into text format and
// writes the resulting lines to 'out'. It returns the number of bytes written
// and any error encountered.  This function does not perform checks on the
// content of the metric and label names, i.e. invalid metric or label names
// will result in invalid text format output.
// This method fulfills the type 'prometheus.encoder'.
func MetricFamilyToText(out io.Writer, in *dto.MetricFamily) (int, error) {
	var written int

	// Fail-fast checks.
	if len(in.Metric) == 0 {
		return written, fmt.Errorf("MetricFamily has no metrics: %s", in)
	}
	name := in.GetName()
	if name == "" {
		return written, fmt.Errorf("MetricFamily has no name: %s", in)
	}
	if in.Type == nil {
		return written, fmt.Errorf("MetricFamily has no type: %s", in)
	}

	// Comments, first HELP, then TYPE.
	if in.Help != nil {
		n, err := fmt.Fprintf(
			out, "# HELP %s %s\n",
			name, escapeString(*in.Help, false),
		)
		written += n
		if err != nil {
			return written, err
		}
	}
	metricType := in.GetType()
	n, err := fmt.Fprintf(
		out, "# TYPE %s %s\n",
		name, strings.ToLower(metricType.String()),
	)
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}

	// Finally the samples, one line for each.
	for _, metric := range in.Metric {
		switch metricType {
		case dto.MetricType_COUNTER:
			if metric.Counter == nil {
				return written, fmt.Errorf(
					"expected counter in metric %s", metric,
				)
			}
			n, err = writeSample(
				name, metric, "", "",
				metric.Counter.GetValue(),
				out,
			)
		case dto.MetricType_GAUGE:
			if metric.Gauge == nil {
				return written, fmt.Errorf(
					"expected gauge in metric %s", metric,
				)
			}
			n, err = writeSample(
				name, metric, "", "",
				metric.Gauge.GetValue(),
				out,
			)
		case dto.MetricType_UNTYPED:
			if metric.Untyped == nil {
				return written, fmt.Errorf(
					"expected untyped in metric %s", metric,
				)
			}
			n, err = writeSample(
				name, metric, "", "",
				metric.Untyped.GetValue(),
				out,
			)
		case dto.MetricType_SUMMARY:
			if metric.Summary == nil {
				return written, fmt.Errorf(
					"expected summary in metric %s", metric,
				)
			}
			for _, q := range metric.Summary.Quantile {
				n, err = writeSample(
					name, metric,
					model.QuantileLabel, fmt.Sprint(q.GetQuantile()),
					q.GetValue(),
					out,
				)
				written += n
				if err != nil {
					return written, err
				}
			}
			n, err = writeSample(
				name+"_sum", metric, "", "",
				metric.Summary.GetSampleSum(),
				out,
			)
			if err != nil {
				return written, err
			}
			written += n
			n, err = writeSample(
				name+"_count", metric, "", "",
				float64(metric.Summary.GetSampleCount()),
				out,
			)
		case dto.MetricType_HISTOGRAM:
			if metric.Histogram == nil {
				return written, fmt.Errorf(
					"expected summary in metric %s", metric,
				)
			}
			infSeen := false
			for _, q := range metric.Histogram.Bucket {
				n, err = writeSample(
					name+"_bucket", metric,
					model.BucketLabel, fmt.Sprint(q.GetUpperBound()),
					float64(q.GetCumulativeCount()),
					out,
				)
				written += n
				if err != nil {
					return written, err
				}
				if math.IsInf(q.GetUpperBound(), +1) {
					infSeen = true
				}
			}
			if !infSeen {
				n, err = writeSample(
					name+"_bucket", metric,
					model.BucketLabel, "+Inf",
					float64(metric.Histogram.GetSampleCount()),
					out,
				)
				if err != nil {
					return written, err
				}
				written += n
			}
			n, err = writeSample(
				name+"_sum", metric, "", "",
				metric.Histogram.GetSampleSum(),
				out,
			)
			if err != nil {
				return written, err
			}
			written += n
			n, err = writeSample(
				name+"_count", metric, "", "",
				float64(metric.Histogram.GetSampleCount()),
				out,
			)
		default:
			return written, fmt.Errorf(
				"unexpected type in metric %s", metric,
			)
		}
		written += n
		if err != nil {
			return written, err
		}
	}
	return written, nil
}

// writeSample writes a single sample in text format to out, given the metric
// name, the metric proto message itself, optionally an additional label name
// and value (use empty strings if not required), and the value. The function
// returns the number of bytes written and any error encountered.
func writeSample(
	name string,
	metric *dto.Metric,
	additionalLabelName, additionalLabelValue string,
	value float64,
	out io.Writer,
) (int, error) {
	var written int
	n, err := fmt.Fprint(out, name)
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}
	n, err = labelPairsToText(
		metric.Label,
		additionalLabelName, additionalLabelValue,
		out,
	)
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}
	n, err = fmt.Fprintf(out, " %v", value)
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}
	if metric.TimestampMs != nil {
		n, err = fmt.Fprintf(out, " %v", *metric.TimestampMs)
		written += n
		if err != nil {
			return written, err
		}
	}
	n, err = out.Write([]byte{'\n'})
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}
	return written, nil
}

// labelPairsToText converts a slice of LabelPair proto messages plus the
// explicitly given additional label pair into text formatted as required by the
// text format and writes it to 'out'. An empty slice in combination with an
// empty string 'additionalLabelName' results in nothing being
// written. Otherwise, the label pairs are written, escaped as required by the
// text format, and enclosed in '{...}'. The function returns the number of
// bytes written and any error encountered.
func labelPairsToText(
	in []*dto.LabelPair,
	additionalLabelName, additionalLabelValue string,
	out io.Writer,
) (int, error) {
	if len(in) == 0 && additionalLabelName == "" {
		return 0, nil
	}
	var written int
	separator := '{'
	for _, lp := range in {
		n, err := fmt.Fprintf(
			out, `%c%s="%s"`,
			separator, lp.GetName(), escapeString(lp.GetValue(), true),
		)
		written += n
		if err != nil {
			return written, err
		}
		separator = ','
	}
	if additionalLabelName != "" {
		n, err := fmt.Fprintf(
			out, `%c%s="%s"`,
			separator, additionalLabelName,
			escapeString(additionalLabelValue, true),
		)
		written += n
		if err != nil {
			return written, err
		}
	}
	n, err := out.Write([]byte{'}'})
	written += n
	if err != nil {
		return written, err
	}
	return written, nil
}

// escapeString replaces '\' by '\\', new line character by '\n', and - if
// includeDoubleQuote is true - '"' by '\"'.
func escapeString(v string, includeDoubleQuote bool) string {
	result := bytes.NewBuffer(make([]byte, 0, len(v)))
	for _, c := range v {
		switch {
		case c == '\\':
			result.WriteString(`\\`)
		case includeDoubleQuote && c == '"':
			result.WriteString(`\"`)
		case c == '\n':
			result.WriteString(`\n`)
		default:
			result.WriteRune(c)
		}
	}
	return result.String()
}