Revert casing of self.sourceType in modinputs Event class; edit changelog, still pending David Noble's changes

Shakeel Mohamed · Shakeel Mohamed · commit e7bd0457a4df · 2013-12-18T14:00:37.000-08:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
-* If you're not expecting Splunk to index these modular inputs with a sourcetype set,
-  when updating to this version of the SDK you will see these events unexpectedly.
+* If modular inputs were not being indexed by Splunk because a sourcetype was set
+  (and the SDK was not handling them correctly), they will be indexed upon updating
+  to this version of the SDK.
 
 ### Minor changes
 
-* Docstring corrections in modular input examples.
+* Docstring corrections in the modular input examples.
 
 * A minor docstring correction in `splunklib/modularinput/event_writer.py`.
 
diff --git a/splunklib/modularinput/event.py b/splunklib/modularinput/event.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def __init__(self, data=None, stanza=None, time=None, host=None, index=None, sou
         self.host = host
         self.index = index
         self.source = source
-        self.sourcetype = sourcetype
+        self.sourceType = sourcetype
         self.stanza = stanza
         self.time = time
         self.unbroken = unbroken
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def write_to(self, stream):
         # add all other subelements to this Event, represented by (tag, text)
         subelements = [
             ("source", self.source),
-            ("sourcetype", self.sourcetype),
+            ("sourcetype", self.sourceType),
             ("index", self.index),
             ("host", self.host),
             ("data", self.data)
