Writing a custom input monitor?

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silicontrip
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Writing a custom input monitor?

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How easy would it be to write my own custom input monitor. Are these just executables which live in the processors directory or built into the FFAStrans binary?

Our DAM uses FTP however to get a listing via ftp takes about 10 minutes, so there is a postgress db available to list the files. I'd like to write a plugin which can use postgres to do the listing but then transfer required files via FTP.
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Re: Writing a custom input monitor?

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Unfortuantely, FFAStrans does not have a "plug-in" mechanism so all processors are built into the executables. You can off course create a custom program to do the listing and do the rest in FFAStrans by triggering a custom command which uses f.ex. cURL. Because of FFAStrans "Command exeutor" node, a REST api and the variables implementation it's quite powerful and flexible even though it lacks a plug-in mechanism.

-steinar
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