API Poller - Additional Data Types and Value Transformation

m_roberts

I have the following suggestions for improving a part of the API Poller feature related to data collection:

1. Support additional data types, as currently only numeric values are supported. Even text values have to be converted to numbers
   1. Date Time
   2. String
   3. Boolean
      1. Yes I can convert in the display, but I shouldn't have to
2. Create formula's based on the API results
   1. The way this is implemented in Custom SNMP Pollers is a good starting point for this
   2. A method of supporting multiple transforms is required, so inclusion of data type changing may also be beneficial
3. Dynamic arrays
   1. Allow table structures to be created from array data and allow the range to support the changing sizes
   2. Currently we would have to edit the API poller if the array size were to change. This is not a good situation on slowly changing array structures, but for arrays which may change size every poll, this is unusable