class match instead of findclass

Hi Bryan,

Out of curiosity, what kind of performance hit did you see when testing findclass in 10.1 compared with the class commands? Did you compare matchclass with class as well? I haven't done any testing of this, so I'm wondering if it's a significant difference.

The format for a (non-external) name/value pair string datagroup in 10.1 is:

class my_string_datagroup {
   {
      "name1" { "value1" }
      "name2" { "value2" }
      "name3" { "value3" }
   }
}

You can then use 'class search' to look up the value for a given name (URI, in your example):

set match [class search -value my_string_datagroup eq [string tolower [HTTP::uri]]]

'class match' just returns true or false (0 or 1 actually) based on whether the match of the token against the class is successful.

Aaron