1 files changed, 50 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 449be2f8185d..894f72676ba5 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ use std::process;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 use systemd::journal::*;
 
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests;
+
 const ENTRIES_WRITE_URL: &str = "https://logging.googleapis.com/v2/entries:write";
 const METADATA_TOKEN_URL: &str = "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token";
 const METADATA_ID_URL: &str = "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/id";
@@ -121,13 +124,57 @@ fn get_metadata(url: &str) -> Result<String> {
     Ok(output.trim().into())
 }
 
+
+/// This structure represents the different types of payloads
+/// supported by journaldriver.
+///
+/// Currently log entries can either contain plain text messages or
+/// structured payloads in JSON-format.
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, PartialEq)]
+#[serde(untagged)]
+enum Payload {
+    TextPayload {
+        #[serde(rename = "textPayload")]
+        text_payload: String,
+    },
+    JsonPayload {
+        #[serde(rename = "jsonPaylaod")]
+        json_payload: Value,
+    },
+}
+
+/// Attempt to parse a log message as JSON and return it as a
+/// structured payload. If parsing fails, return the entry in plain
+/// text format.
+fn message_to_payload(message: Option<String>) -> Payload {
+    match message {
+        None => Payload::TextPayload { text_payload: "empty log entry".into() },
+        Some(text_payload) => {
+            // Attempt to deserialize the text payload as a generic
+            // JSON value.
+            if let Ok(json_payload) = serde_json::from_str::<Value>(&text_payload) {
+                // If JSON-parsing succeeded on the payload, check
+                // whether we parsed an object (Stackdriver does not
+                // expect other types of JSON payload) and return it
+                // in that case.
+                if json_payload.is_object() {
+                    return Payload::JsonPayload { json_payload }
+                }
+            }
+
+            Payload::TextPayload { text_payload }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// This structure represents a log entry in the format expected by
 /// the Stackdriver API.
 #[derive(Debug, Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 struct LogEntry {
     labels: Value,
-    text_payload: String, // TODO: attempt to parse jsonPayloads
+    #[serde(flatten)]
+    payload: Payload,
 }
 
 impl From<JournalRecord> for LogEntry {
@@ -139,7 +186,7 @@ impl From<JournalRecord> for LogEntry {
         // The message field is technically just a convention, but
         // journald seems to default to it when ingesting unit
         // output.
-        let message = record.remove("MESSAGE");
+        let payload = message_to_payload(record.remove("MESSAGE"));
 
         // Presumably this is always set, but who can be sure
         // about anything in this world.
@@ -157,7 +204,7 @@ impl From<JournalRecord> for LogEntry {
         //     .map();
 
         LogEntry {
-            text_payload: message.unwrap_or_else(|| "empty log entry".into()),
+            payload,
             labels: json!({
                 "host": hostname,
                 "unit": unit.unwrap_or_else(|| "syslog".into()),