org.jwall.web.audit
Interface AuditEvent

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<AuditEvent>, Event, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

IronBeeAuditEvent, ModSecurityAuditEvent

public interface AuditEvent
extends Event, Serializable, Comparable<AuditEvent>

This interface defines an abstract audit-event. Specifying events as interface aims at several optimized implementations. A simple one can be found at AuditEventImpl.

This interface also defines several event properties, which are beyond the set of variables supported by.

Author:

Christian Bockermann <chris@jwall.org>

Field Summary

static String	AGE This is a special variable, which refers to the age of the event in milliseconds with regard to the moment the variable is accessed (i.e.
static String	EVENT_ID
static String	EVENT_TAGS The collection key for storing all tags for an event
static String	EVENT_URL
static String	FILE This variable holds the path where the event is stored
static String	FILE_OFFSET This variable indicates the offset (in bytes) from the beginning of the file where this event is stored
static String	ID
static String	MESSAGE
static String	RECEIVED_AT A key denoting the time an event has been received
static String	SENSOR This simply serves as alias for SENSOR_NAME
static String	SENSOR_ADDR
static String	SENSOR_ID This variable holds the ID of the sensor from which this event was received (if available)
static String	SENSOR_NAME This variable holds the name of the sensor from which this event was received (if available)
static String	SENSOR_TYPE
static String	SESSION_ID
static String	SEVERITY
static String	SITE_ID This variable denotes the site-id to which this event is mapped
static String	SITE_NAME This variable references the site-name to which this event is mapped
static String	SIZE
static String	TAGS
static String[]	VARIABLES

Fields inherited from interface org.jwall.audit.Event

TIMESTAMP, TYPE

Method Summary

int	compareTo(AuditEvent o)
String	get(String var) Returns the given variable as String or an empty string if the variable is not set.
List<String>	getAll(String var) This method returns the list of a collection which if referenced by the given variable var.
AuditEventType	getAuditEventType()
Date	getDate() Returns the date of this events birth.
String	getEventId() The unique ID, created by modsecurity.
AuditEventMessage[]	getEventMessages()
String[]	getRawData() Deprecated.
String	getSection(int i) Returns the string, which contains the whole section of this audit-event.
String	getSessionId() Deprecated. Use get( "SESSION_ID" ); instead.
List<String>	getVariables() This method returns the list of all variables available in this event.
boolean	isSet(String var) Checks wether the given variable is set or not.
void	set(String variable, String value) This method can be used to modify/set properties of the event.
void	setAll(String variable, List<String> values) This method can be used to modify/set a collection of the event.
void	setSessionId(String id) Deprecated. Use set( "SESSION_ID", id ) instead.

Methods inherited from interface org.jwall.audit.Event

getTimestamp, getType

Field Detail

ID

static final String ID

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EVENT_ID

static final String EVENT_ID

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EVENT_TAGS

static final String EVENT_TAGS

The collection key for storing all tags for an event

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RECEIVED_AT

static final String RECEIVED_AT

A key denoting the time an event has been received

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AGE

static final String AGE

This is a special variable, which refers to the age of the event in milliseconds with regard to the moment the variable is accessed (i.e. calculated on-time of extraction)

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SENSOR_ID

static final String SENSOR_ID

This variable holds the ID of the sensor from which this event was received (if available)

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SENSOR_NAME

static final String SENSOR_NAME

This variable holds the name of the sensor from which this event was received (if available)

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SENSOR

static final String SENSOR

This simply serves as alias for SENSOR_NAME

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SENSOR_ADDR

static final String SENSOR_ADDR

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SENSOR_TYPE

static final String SENSOR_TYPE

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SITE_ID

static final String SITE_ID

This variable denotes the site-id to which this event is mapped

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SITE_NAME

static final String SITE_NAME

This variable references the site-name to which this event is mapped

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FILE

static final String FILE

This variable holds the path where the event is stored

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EVENT_URL

static final String EVENT_URL

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FILE_OFFSET

static final String FILE_OFFSET

This variable indicates the offset (in bytes) from the beginning of the file where this event is stored

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SIZE

static final String SIZE

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TAGS

static final String TAGS

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SEVERITY

static final String SEVERITY

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MESSAGE

static final String MESSAGE

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SESSION_ID

static final String SESSION_ID

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VARIABLES

static final String[] VARIABLES

Method Detail

getEventId

String getEventId()

The unique ID, created by modsecurity.

Returns:

A unique event id.

getSection

String getSection(int i)

Returns the string, which contains the whole section of this audit-event. The available sections are defined in ModSecurity.java.

Parameters:

i - Index of the section as defined by ModSecurity.SECTION_*.

Returns:

The string value of the appopriate section of this event.

getDate

Date getDate()

Returns the date of this events birth. The value of this date is parsed from the audit-event entry.

Returns:

The date when this event was created.

getSessionId

String getSessionId()

Deprecated. Use get( "SESSION_ID" ); instead.

The session-id of this request or an empty string, if no session-id has been set.

Returns:

The session id.

setSessionId

void setSessionId(String id)

Deprecated. Use set( "SESSION_ID", id ) instead.

This method sets the session-id of this event. Its primary use is to group several events by external session-trackers.

Parameters:

id - The id of the session with which this event is associated.

isSet

boolean isSet(String var)

Checks wether the given variable is set or not.

Parameters:

var - The name of the variable that is checked.

Returns:

true iff the variable is set.

get

String get(String var)

Returns the given variable as String or an empty string if the variable is not set. If the given variable is referring to a collection the first value of that collection is returned. To test if a variable has been set, use isSet(String variable).

Specified by:

get in interface Event

Parameters:

var - The name of the variable.

Returns:

The value of this variable.

getAll

List<String> getAll(String var)

This method returns the list of a collection which if referenced by the given variable var.

Parameters:

var - The variable name of the collection. May also be a non-collection variable in which case a single-item list will returned if the variable has a value.

Returns:

The list of values for the variable, of NULL if no collection is found by that variable name.

set

void set(String variable,
         String value)

This method can be used to modify/set properties of the event. There is a distinction between request and event properties. The request properties are parsed from the incoming request and are immutable. The event properties may be changed.

Specified by:

set in interface Event

Parameters:

variable -

value -

setAll

void setAll(String variable,
            List<String> values)

This method can be used to modify/set a collection of the event. There is a distinction between request and event properties. The request properties are parsed from the incoming request and are immutable. The event properties may be changed.

Parameters:

variable -

values -

getVariables

List<String> getVariables()

This method returns the list of all variables available in this event.

Returns:

The list of variable names (single variables AND collections) which may be accessed from this event.

compareTo

int compareTo(AuditEvent o)

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable<AuditEvent>

getRawData

String[] getRawData()

Deprecated.

This method returns an array of strings that contain the section-data of the appopriate audit-log entry of this event.

Returns:

The list of section-strings.

getEventMessages

AuditEventMessage[] getEventMessages()

getAuditEventType

AuditEventType getAuditEventType()