From 76eab4e4280ebfec4b8dcc53b157e343ff8121e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YammerAaron <akulick@yammer-inc.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:42:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Added zbx.dryrun call with JSON pretty print for human
 consumption

---
 lib/zabbix/sender.rb        | 12 +++++++++++-
 lib/zabbix/sender/buffer.rb |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/zabbix/sender.rb b/lib/zabbix/sender.rb
index 5f46551..29b124a 100644
--- a/lib/zabbix/sender.rb
+++ b/lib/zabbix/sender.rb
@@ -68,10 +68,20 @@ def cons_zabbix_data_element(host, key, value, clock=Time.now.to_i)
     }
   end
 
+  def dryrun_zabbix_request(data)
+    request = Yajl::Encoder.encode({
+      :request => 'agent data' ,
+      :clock   => Time.now.to_i,
+      :data    => data
+    },:pretty => true)
+    puts "#{request}"
+  end
+
+
   def send_zabbix_request(data)
     status  = false
     request = Yajl::Encoder.encode({
-      :request => 'agent data' , 
+      :request => 'agent data' ,
       :clock   => Time.now.to_i,
       :data    => data
     })
diff --git a/lib/zabbix/sender/buffer.rb b/lib/zabbix/sender/buffer.rb
index f6ffc3b..ba66ab3 100644
--- a/lib/zabbix/sender/buffer.rb
+++ b/lib/zabbix/sender/buffer.rb
@@ -21,4 +21,11 @@ def flush
     return ret
   end
 
+  def dryrun
+    return false unless @buffer.size > 0
+    ret = dryrun_zabbix_request(@buffer)
+    @buffer.clear
+    return ret
+  end
+
 end