hacking new Lire filters and reports (was: Re: Average daily requests)

[Joost van Baal]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:44:10AM -0500, Brett Simpson wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to generate a count on average hourly and
> daily requests. I can see that an average is available for Compressed
> URLS and Files.

If a numeric operation like sum or avg is used in any Lire filter or report
specification, it can be used in any.

> Assuming the code is in place could I do something similar to this so
> that I can get the Average amount of requests per day. So it will
> average hourly requests and then for a daily request average.
> 
> In requests-by-period.xml
>  <lire:report-calc-spec>
>   <lire:timegroup period="$period" label="Period">
>    <lire:count name="request_total" label="Requests"/>
>    <lire:count name="request_ratio" ratio="table" label="% Total"/>
>    <lire:avg name="avg_requests" field="request_total" label="Avg"/>
>   </lire:timegroup>
>  </lire:report-calc-spec>
> 
> If the averaging isn't available were can I look to get an idea of
> where I need to code in this extra functionality.
> 

I believe your code could work; just try it and see.  See also
Lire::Average(3pm).

BTW: you can test your www filters and reports by sticking them
somewhere under ~/.lire/www/filters/ and ~/.lire/www/reports/ : you
don't have to clutter your system with yet-untested stuff.

Bye,

Joost

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