Support for Client-Side Application?

[umcsdon]

Is it possible to use this plugin for Client-Side Javascript Application?

[bradoyler]

I suppose you could use browserify to run this module client-side, but don't know if that's supported. Would love to see this as an option for simple logging.

[bradoyler]

@umcsdon actually, looks like this: https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-javascript#client-side-code-would be the "supported" option.
But this line:

 var service = new splunkjs.Service({username: "admin", password: "changeme"});

has me worried.
Why would I put a username/password in my client-side app?

[shakeelmohamed]

I suppose you could use browserify to run this module client-side, but don't know if that's supported. Would love to see this as an option for simple logging.

@bradoyler We've manually tested this library with browserify, and it appears to work just fine once you workaround CORS. To workaround CORS on the Splunk end, take a look at this blog post by @glennblock.

Once you have browserify installed (npm install -g browserify), you can run the following. Then just include splunk-javascript-logging-client.js in your web app.

browserify index.js --standalone SplunkLogger -o splunk-javascript-logging-client.js

Why would I put a username/password in my client-side app?

That code example is for a different project, the Splunk SDK for JavaScript, which is not intended to be used in public facing websites.

[bradoyler]

@shakeelmohamed Thx.
I just came across https://github.com/splunk/splunk-bunyan-logger
Would this be a better option?

[glennblock]

@bradoyler you'll need to use Browserify to use splunk-bunyan-logger or
splunk-javascript-logging.

As you mentioned, using splunk-sdk-javascript is not ideal as it requires
having valid Splunk login credentials, and having to send them from the
client.

We may add a browser-based logging library in the future. If you'd like to
see that, can you submit an idea at splunkdev.uservoice.com?

Thanks!
Glenn

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@shakeelmohamed https://github.com/shakeelmohamed Thx.
I just came across https://github.com/splunk/splunk-bunyan-logger
Would this be a better option?

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[shakeelmohamed]

@bradoyler Either one will work fine (with browserify). Take a look at the examples in this repo and the bunyan logger repo and see which interface you prefer. Bunyan will automatically give you a bit more metadata as outlined in the examples

[bradoyler]

@glennblock @shakeelmohamed Great Thx. I'll try to get CORS enabled and go from there. 🍻

[bradoyler]

@umcsdon U can upvote @ https://splunkdev.uservoice.com/forums/235348-dev-platform/suggestions/13751736-event-logging-from-the-browser

[glennblock]

Thanks!
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@umcsdon https://github.com/umcsdon U can upvote @
https://splunkdev.uservoice.com/forums/235348-dev-platform/suggestions/13751736-event-logging-from-the-browser

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[glennblock]

I gave you a vote :-)
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:28 PM Glenn Block glenn.block@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks!
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@umcsdon https://github.com/umcsdon U can upvote @
https://splunkdev.uservoice.com/forums/235348-dev-platform/suggestions/13751736-event-logging-from-the-browser

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[shakeelmohamed]

@umcsdon @bradoyler you might want to check out this project as it already has browser support https://github.com/vtex/splunkevents-js

[sylvanaar]

You can just convert this to a client library by rewriting the post function to just make an AJAX call directly, and merge the source into one file. Browserfy is probably overkill unless you want to bring in all 20+ libraries that the Request library has as dependencies.