topic Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ? in Splunk Search

how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

kalyani_y — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 05:45:28 GMT

I am trying to create a new custom search command with java, but I only found stuff related to python. Is it possible to create a custom search command with java?

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

koshyk — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:03:46 GMT

You need to use Splunk Java SDK. Very good documentation at: Splunk Java SDK documentation

The core logic being..

// Create the job
JobArgs jobArgs = new JobArgs();
jobArgs.setEarliestTime("rt-1m");
String mySearch = "search index=_internal";
Job job = service.search(mySearch, jobArgs);
// View the results--a stream of previews--using standard Java classes
JobResultsPreviewArgs previewArgs = new JobResultsPreviewArgs();

    InputStream stream = job.getResultsPreview(previewArgs);
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"));
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(line);
    }

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

kalyani_y — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:11:08 GMT

hi koshyk
Thnx. i tried that one too but my requirement is i need to process those results and post back to splunk preview and this search has to work dynamically that means the input has to come from splunk search bar. this entire work has to be done with java

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

koshyk — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:18:55 GMT

don't think i quite understood. Is this what you are trying to do ?
- run search1 & get results of search1
- create search2 with results of search1

(you said, you got examples in python. if you put that, i might look to convert to java)

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

kalyani_y — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 08:26:55 GMT

I need the following to be converted to java and run in splunk

Thanks InAdvance

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.4/AdvancedDev/SearchScripts

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

koshyk — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:03:25 GMT

that's bit of complex sample in that.
But found a simpler example at: splunk.blogs

https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/tree/develop/examples/searchcommands_app
https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/blob/develop/examples/searchcommands_app/bin/generatehello.py

which you can convert to java

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

kalyani_y — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:34:28 GMT

I need those in Java. Even though i convert code i don't have an idea whether it works or not

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

jagadeeshm — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:50:27 GMT

any luck finding out if you can create custom search commands using Java?

Re: how to create splunk custom search command with java ?

spammenot66 — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:29:45 GMT

Does anyone know if this is possible. Based on the documentation, I don't think it's possible to create a custom search command in Java. It would have to be done with python

custom command documentation for python:

https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/devtools/customsearchcommands/customsearchcmdexamples/

I went through the docs for Java and there's nothing in regards to custom commands

https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/devtools/java/plugin-eclipse/howtouseeclipse

splunk employees, can you help confirm?