sending events with additional fields using the REST API

Hello zenoss community,

I'm not sure if this is the right channel for this, but i would like to share a solution to a problem already mentioned in:
http://community.zenoss.org/message/74234

The problem is that zenoss v4/5 only allows a subset of fields to be sent as part of a request to create events. We make use of the message field quite often (to include things such as stack traces) so we need a way to include more information on events.

By changing two lines of code, it is possible to send any number of additional fields.

In Products/Zuul/routers/zep.py:

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< def add_event(self, summary, device, component, severity, evclasskey, evclass=None):
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> def add_event(self, summary, device, component, severity, evclasskey, evclass=None, **kwargs):
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< self.zep.create(summary, severity, device, component, eventClassKey=evclasskey, eventClass=evclass)
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> self.zep.create(summary, severity, device, component, eventClassKey=evclasskey, eventClass=evclass, **kwargs)

The additional **kwargs will allow you to send pretty much anything you want to zenoss, e.g.

curl -k -u 'admin:zenoss' -L -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"action":"EventsRouter","method":"newadd_event","data":[{"summary":"a large python","device":"test-device","component":"test-comp","severity":5,"evclasskey":"test-key","message":"unfeasibly large", ipAddress="1.2.3.4"}],"type":"rpc", "tid": "1"}' http://localhost:8080/zport/dmd/evconsole_router

I wonder if it is possible to get this patch into zenoss core