summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/doc/property_replacer.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-08-30 18:56:23 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-08-30 18:56:23 +0200
commit0426ad7dd27fda6854f7d306e46331387b20947a (patch)
treeaca83e51bab144c7ace478ae1918f2cdcc006b7a /doc/property_replacer.html
parenta9f80019dc30b54bf0593367c1cccf46e45a43c7 (diff)
downloadrsyslog-0426ad7dd27fda6854f7d306e46331387b20947a.tar.gz
rsyslog-0426ad7dd27fda6854f7d306e46331387b20947a.tar.xz
rsyslog-0426ad7dd27fda6854f7d306e46331387b20947a.zip
switch field default to "mandatory" and implement that mode
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/property_replacer.html')
-rw-r--r--doc/property_replacer.html6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/property_replacer.html b/doc/property_replacer.html
index 217b6dc0..dc09d33c 100644
--- a/doc/property_replacer.html
+++ b/doc/property_replacer.html
@@ -715,8 +715,10 @@ Useful for secure pathname generation (with dynafiles).
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
-<td><b>optional-field</b></td>
-<td>In templates that are used for building field lists (in particular, ommongodb), completely remove this field if the corresponding property is not present. Currently implemented only for the <b>$!&lt;name&gt;</b> properties.</td>
+<td><b>mandatory-field</b></td>
+<td>In templates that are used for building field lists (in particular, ommongodb), include
+this field, even if it is empty (or NULL). If not set, the field will be removed from
+the output field set if empty. The latter is the default case.
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>