[Buildbot-commits] buildbot/docs buildbot.texinfo,1.135,1.136

[Brian Warner]

Update of /cvsroot/buildbot/buildbot/docs
In directory sc8-pr-cvs3.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7272/docs

Modified Files:
	buildbot.texinfo 
Log Message:
[project @ allow LogLineObserver to handle longer lines. Closes #201.]

Original author: warner at lothar.com
Date: 2008-03-23 00:35:51+00:00

Index: buildbot.texinfo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/buildbot/buildbot/docs/buildbot.texinfo,v
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diff -u -d -r1.135 -r1.136
--- buildbot.texinfo	21 Mar 2008 01:32:00 -0000	1.135
+++ buildbot.texinfo	23 Mar 2008 00:36:56 -0000	1.136
@@ -5021,7 +5021,11 @@
 course you can subclass them to add further customization. The
 @code{LogLineObserver} class handles the grunt work of buffering and
 scanning for end-of-line delimiters, allowing your parser to operate
-on complete stdout/stderr lines.
+on complete stdout/stderr lines. (Lines longer than a set maximum
+length are dropped; the maximum defaults to 16384 bytes, but you can
+change it by calling @code{setMaxLineLength()} on your
+ at code{LogLineObserver} instance.  Use @code{sys.maxint} for effective
+infinity.)
 
 For example, let's take a look at the @code{TrialTestCaseCounter},
 which is used by the Trial step to count test cases as they are run.