Class: Methadone::CLILogger

Inherits:
Logger
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb

Overview

A Logger instance that gives better control of messaging the user and logging app activity. At it’s most basic, you would use info as a replacement for puts and error as a replacement for STDERR.puts. Since this is a logger, however, you can also use #debug, #warn, and #fatal, and you can control the format and “logging level” as such.

So, by default:

  • debug messages do not appear anywhere

  • info messages appear on the standard output

  • warn, error, and fatal messagse appear on the standard error

  • The default format of messages is simply the message, no logging cruft, however if your output is redirected to a file, a better timestamped logging format is used

You can customize this in several ways:

  • You can override the devices used by passing different devices to the constructor

  • You can adjust the level of message that goes to the error logger via error_level=

  • You can adjust the format for messages to the error logger separately via error_formatter=

Example

logger = CLILogger.new
logger.debug("Starting up") # => only the standard output gets this
logger.warn("careful!") # => only the standard error gets this
logger.error("Something went wrong!") # => only the standard error gets this

logger = CLILogger.new
logger.error_level = Logger::ERROR
logger.debug("Starting up") # => only the standard output gets this
logger.warn("careful!") # => only the standard OUTPUT gets this
logger.error("Something went wrong!") # => only the standard error gets this

logger = CLILogger.new('logfile.txt')
logger.debug("Starting up") # => logfile.txt gets this
logger.error("Something went wrong!") # => BOTH logfile.txt AND the standard error get this

Constant Summary collapse

BLANK_FORMAT = 
proc { |severity,datetime,progname,msg|
  msg + "\n"
}
DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL = 
Logger::Severity::WARN

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(log_device = $stdout, error_device = $stderr) ⇒ CLILogger

A logger that logs error-type messages to a second device; useful for ensuring that error messages go to standard error. This should be pretty smart about doing the right thing. If both log devices are ttys, e.g. one is going to standard error and the other to the standard output, messages only appear once in the overall output stream. In other words, an ERROR logged will show up only in the standard error. If either log device is NOT a tty, then all messages go to log_device and only errors go to error_device

log_device

device where all log messages should go, based on level

error_device

device where all error messages should go. By default, this is Logger::Severity::WARN



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 84

def initialize(log_device=$stdout,error_device=$stderr)
  @stderr_logger = Logger.new(error_device)

  super(log_device)

  log_device_tty   = tty?(log_device)
  error_device_tty = tty?(error_device)

  @split_logs = log_device_tty && error_device_tty

  self.level = Logger::Severity::INFO
  @stderr_logger.level = DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL

  self.formatter = BLANK_FORMAT if log_device_tty
  @stderr_logger.formatter = BLANK_FORMAT if error_device_tty
end

Class Method Details

.proxy_method(symbol) ⇒ Object

Helper to proxy methods to the super class AND to the internal error logger

symbol

Symbol for name of the method to proxy



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 48

def self.proxy_method(symbol) #:nodoc:
  old_name = "old_#{symbol}".to_sym
  alias_method old_name,symbol
  define_method symbol do |*args,&block|
    send(old_name,*args,&block)
    @stderr_logger.send(symbol,*args,&block)
  end
end

Instance Method Details

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

:nodoc:



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 60

def add(severity, message = nil, progname = nil, &block) #:nodoc:
  if @split_logs
    unless severity >= @stderr_logger.level
      super(severity,message,progname,&block)
    end
  else
    super(severity,message,progname,&block)
  end
  @stderr_logger.add(severity,message,progname,&block)
end

#error_formatter=(formatter) ⇒ Object

Overrides the formatter for the error logger. A future call to #formatter= will affect both, so the order of the calls matters.

formatter

Proc that handles the formatting, the same as for #formatter=



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 121

def error_formatter=(formatter)
  @stderr_logger.formatter=formatter
end

#error_level=(level) ⇒ Object

Set the threshold for what messages go to the error device. Note that calling #level= will not affect the error logger unless both devices are TTYs.

level

a constant from Logger::Severity for the level of messages that should go to the error logger



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 113

def error_level=(level)
  @stderr_logger.level = level
end

#level=(level) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/methadone/cli_logger.rb', line 101

def level=(level)
  super(level)
  if (level > DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL) && @split_logs
    @stderr_logger.level = level
  end
end