Smart serialization will not serialize empty or null values.

Author: juanparati

Diff for: README.md

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ Laralog can send logs to different services like ElasticSearch and Datadog.
 |--to-timezone=[zone]|Convert logs to a different timezone See [timezone list](http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php) (Only ElasticSearch).|
 |--sender=[sender]|Sender to use: elasticsearch (Default) or datadog.|
 |--hostname=[hostname]|Override the default hostname.|
+|--smart|Serialize JSON context when is possible.|
 |-v|Verbose mode that output the new log entries to STDOUT.| 
 
 
@@ -130,7 +131,17 @@ Benefits of the safe file handler:
 The safe file handler do not use LibEvent, inotify or another file event notification mechanism so instead it uses a regular file check (See "--read-freq=[ms]" parameter). This makes the log file check process a bit slow but in this way the LibEvent extension is not required.
 
 
-## 9. How to build Laralog
+## 9. Smart serialization
+
+The option "--smart" will automatically serialize the JSON chunks found in the context and send it as the "parameters" field.
+
+Example:
+
+        [2019-11-24 06:30:56] production.INFO: Job finished {"connection":"database","queue":"default","job":"SendNewsletter"}
+
+The previous log entry contains JSON chunk as context and normally it's send to the Logstash or Datadog as a string, however with the smart serialization option Laralog will try to extract the JSON part and send it as the field "params".
+
+## 10. How to build Laralog
 
 Laralog is available as a self-executable PHAR file, however if you want to build your own custom PHAR you need to follow the following steps:
 
@@ -141,7 +152,7 @@ Laralog is available as a self-executable PHAR file, however if you want to buil
         caveman build . -x -r
 
 
-## 10. Download
+## 11. Download
 
 If you are lazy and you don't want to build your Laralog version, you are welcome to download the following executable (PHAR file):
 

Diff for: src/App/Model/LogParser.php

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public static function parseLogEntry(
             /**
              * Deserialize data and add it to params.
              */
-            if ($smart_serialization)
+            if (!empty(trim($log['data'])) && $smart_serialization)
             {
                 $params = json_decode($data, true);
 

Diff for: src/Config/Version.php

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
  return array (
   'major' => 2,
   'minor' => 7,
-  'build' => 49,
+  'build' => 51,
   'codename' => '',
 );