This is an incomplete prototype for modifying how influxdata/telegraf loads its configuration file.

It provides a new type of plugin, a Loader, which allows plugin based loading and reloading from any data source.

It changes the way plugins are loaded so that they can create a type struct that is passed to a New function to build the plugin. This should allow one time initialization and better error reporting.

It also improves the parser and serializer plugins to ease creation of this type of plugin.

Running

go run cmd/telegraf/main.go telegraf.conf