COM Input Format Plugins

COM Input Format Plugins are user-developed input formats that can be used with Log Parser to provide custom parsing capabilities.

Custom input formats are developed as COM objects implementing the methods of the ILogParserInputContext COM interface.

Once developed and registered with the COM infrastructure, custom input formats can be used with either the Log Parser scriptable COM components through the Execute and ExecuteBatch methods of the LogQuery object, or with the Log Parser command-line executable through the COM input format.

• ILogParserInputContext Interface: describes the methods that must be implemented by custom input format COM objects.
• Run Time Interaction: describes how Log Parser interacts with custom input format COM objects at run time.

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