Class: Logger::Application

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
Severity
Defined in:
lib/logger.rb

Overview

Description

Application — Add logging support to your application.

Usage

  1. Define your application class as a sub-class of this class.

  2. Override the run method in your class to do many things.

  3. Instantiate it and invoke #start.

Example

class FooApp < Application
  def initialize(foo_app, application_specific, arguments)
    super('FooApp') # Name of the application.
  end

  def run
    ...
    log(WARN, 'warning', 'my_method1')
    ...
    @log.error('my_method2') { 'Error!' }
    ...
  end
end

status = FooApp.new(....).start

Constant Summary

Constants included from Severity

Severity::DEBUG, Severity::ERROR, Severity::FATAL, Severity::INFO, Severity::UNKNOWN, Severity::WARN

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(appname = nil) ⇒ Application

Synopsis

Application.new(appname = '')

Args

appname

Name of the application.

Description

Create an instance. Log device is STDERR by default. This can be changed with #set_log.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 731

def initialize(appname = nil)
  @appname = appname
  @log = Logger.new(STDERR)
  @log.progname = @appname
  @level = @log.level
end

Instance Attribute Details

#appname ⇒ Object (readonly)

Name of the application given at initialize.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 715

def appname
  @appname
end

Instance Method Details

#level=(level) ⇒ Object

Set the logging threshold, just like Logger#level=.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 786

def level=(level)
  @level = level
  @log.level = @level
end

#log(severity, message = nil, &block) ⇒ Object

See Logger#add. This application’s appname is used.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 794

def log(severity, message = nil, &block)
  @log.add(severity, message, @appname, &block) if @log
end

#log=(logdev) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 779

def log=(logdev)
  set_log(logdev)
end

#logger ⇒ Object

Logger for this application. See the class Logger for an explanation.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 755

def logger
  @log
end

#logger=(logger) ⇒ Object

Sets the logger for this application. See the class Logger for an explanation.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 763

def logger=(logger)
  @log = logger
  @log.progname = @appname
  @log.level = @level
end

#set_log(logdev, shift_age = 0, shift_size = 1024000) ⇒ Object

Sets the log device for this application. See Logger.new for an explanation of the arguments.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 773

def set_log(logdev, shift_age = 0, shift_size = 1024000)
  @log = Logger.new(logdev, shift_age, shift_size)
  @log.progname = @appname
  @log.level = @level
end

#start ⇒ Object

Start the application. Return the status code.



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# File 'lib/logger.rb', line 741

def start
  status = -1
  begin
    log(INFO, "Start of #{ @appname }.")
    status = run
  rescue
    log(FATAL, "Detected an exception. Stopping ... #{$!} (#{$!.class})\n" << $@.join("\n"))
  ensure
    log(INFO, "End of #{ @appname }. (status: #{ status.to_s })")
  end
  status
end