This is my code Provide me details where am going wrong so that am getting only the part of the description available
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@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public void testReadEventLogEntries() throws CharacterCodingException {
final Charset charset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
Charset iso88591charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
final CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
final CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
int i = 0;// loop contro variable
String type = null; // Type of the event
String user = null;
String str[] = { "System", "Application" };
while (i < 2) {
System.out.println("\n\n" + str[i]);
HANDLE h = Advapi32.INSTANCE.OpenEventLog(null, str[i]);
IntByReference pnBytesRead = new IntByReference();
IntByReference pnMinNumberOfBytesNeeded = new IntByReference();
Memory buffer = new Memory(1024 * 64);
IntByReference pOldestRecord = new IntByReference();
int dwRecord = pOldestRecord.getValue();
int rc = 0;
while (true) { // Travesing the read log records
if (!Advapi32.INSTANCE.ReadEventLog(h,
WinNT.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
| WinNT.EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ, 0, buffer,
(int) buffer.size(), pnBytesRead,
pnMinNumberOfBytesNeeded)) {
rc = Kernel32.INSTANCE.GetLastError();
if (rc == W32Errors.ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER) {
buffer = new Memory(pnMinNumberOfBytesNeeded.getValue());
continue;
}
break;
}
int dwRead = pnBytesRead.getValue();
Pointer pevlr = buffer;
while (dwRead > 0) {
EVENTLOGRECORD record = new EVENTLOGRECORD(pevlr);
EventLogRecord event = new EventLogRecord(pevlr);
org.hyperic.sigar.win32.EventLogRecord sigar;
EventLog log = new EventLog();
if (record.EventType.intValue() == 1)
type = "Error";
else if (record.EventType.intValue() == 10)
type = "Failure Audit";
else if (record.EventType.intValue() == 8)
type = "Sucess Audit";
else if (record.EventType.intValue() == 4)
type = "Information";
else
type = "Warning";
ByteBuffer names = pevlr
.getByteBuffer(
record.size(),
(record.UserSidLength.intValue() != 0 ? record.UserSidOffset
.intValue() : record.StringOffset
.intValue())
- record.size());
names.position(0);
CharBuffer namesBuf = names.asCharBuffer();
String[] splits = namesBuf.toString().split("\0");
if (record.UserSidLength.intValue() != 0) {
ByteBuffer usersid = pevlr.getByteBuffer(
record.UserSidOffset.intValue(),
record.UserSidLength.intValue());
usersid.position(0);
CharBuffer sidBuf = usersid.asCharBuffer();
String[] sp = sidBuf.toString().split("\0");
// System.out.println(sp[0] + sp[1] + sp[2]);
/*
* dst.get user= new String(dst);
*/
} else {
user = "N/A";
}
System.out.println(type + "\t" + toDate(record) + "\t"
+ event.getSource() + "\t" + record.EventCategory
+ "\t" + record.EventID.shortValue() + "\t" + user
+ "\t" + splits[1]);
ByteBuffer strings = pevlr.getByteBuffer(
record.StringOffset.longValue(),
record.DataOffset.intValue()
- record.StringOffset.intValue());
CharBuffer stringsBuf = strings.asCharBuffer();
System.out.println("Desc: " + stringsBuf.toString());
dwRecord++;
dwRead -= record.Length.intValue();
pevlr = pevlr.share(record.Length.intValue());
}
}
i++;
}
}
// Method to convert the timestamp to formated date
public Date toDate(EVENTLOGRECORD record) {
Timestamp stamp = new Timestamp(record.TimeWritten.longValue() * 1000);
Date date = new Date(stamp.getTime());
return date;
}
}
Finally I figured out the solution....The description returned by the above code is just the insertion strings needed to build the message. Instead of using jna I used WMI which is simple to use and more handy
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws COMException {
String computerName = ".";
String userName = "";
String password = "";
String namespace = "root/cimv2";
String Message = "";
String queryProcessor = "Select * from Win32_NTLogEvent where Logfile='System'or Logfile='Application'";
DispatchPtr dispatcher = null;
try {
ISWbemLocator locator = new ISWbemLocator(
"WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
ISWbemServices wbemServices = locator.ConnectServer(computerName,
namespace, userName, password, "", "", 0, dispatcher);
ISWbemObjectSet wbemObjectSet = wbemServices.ExecQuery(
queryProcessor, "WQL", 0, null);
DispatchPtr[] results = new DispatchPtr[wbemObjectSet.getCount()];
IUnknown unknown = wbemObjectSet.get_NewEnum();
IEnumVariant enumVariant = (IEnumVariant) unknown
.queryInterface(IEnumVariant.class);
enumVariant.Next(wbemObjectSet.getCount(), results);
for (int i = 0; i < results.length; i++) {
ISWbemObject wbemObject = (ISWbemObject) results[i]
.queryInterface(ISWbemObject.class);
if (wbemObject.get("Message") != null) {
Message = (String) wbemObject.get("Message");
} else {
Message = "The description for Event ID ("
+ wbemObject.get("EventCode")
+ " ) in Source ( "
+ wbemObject.get("SourceName")
+ ") cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details.";
}
System.out.println(wbemObject.get("Logfile") + "\t"
+ wbemObject.get("Type") + "\t"
+ toDate(wbemObject.get("TimeGenerated").toString())
+ "\t"
+ toTime(wbemObject.get("TimeGenerated").toString())
+ "\t" + wbemObject.get("EventCode") + "\t"
+ wbemObject.get("ComputerName") + "\t" + Message);
// System.out.println(wbemObject.GetObjectText_(0));
}
} catch (COMException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static String toDate(String time) throws COMException {
String date = time.substring(6, 8) + "-" + time.substring(4, 6) + "-"
+ time.substring(0, 4);
return date;
}
public static String toTime(String time) throws COMException {
String Generatedtime = time.substring(8, 10) + ":"
+ time.substring(10, 12) + ":" + time.substring(12, 14) + ":"
+ time.substring(16, 21) + "-" + "GMT" + time.substring(21, 25);
return Generatedtime;
}