NAME

CTK::Log - CTK Logging

VERSION

Version 2.64

SYNOPSIS

use CTK::Log;
use CTK::Log qw/:constants/;

my $logger = CTK::Logger->new (
        file        => "logs/foo.log",
        level       => CTK::Log::LOG_INFO,
        ident       => "ident string",
    );

$logger->log( CTK::Log::LOG_INFO, " ... Blah-Blah-Blah ... " );

$logger->log_except( "..." );  # 9 exception, aborts program!
$logger->log_fatal( "..." );   # 8 system unusable, aborts program!
$logger->log_emerg( "..." );   # 7 system is unusable
$logger->log_alert( "..." );   # 6 failure in primary system
$logger->log_crit( "..." );    # 5 failure in backup system
$logger->log_error( "..." );   # 4 non-urgent program errors, a bug
$logger->log_warning( "..." ); # 3 possible problem, not necessarily error
$logger->log_notice( "..." );  # 2 unusual conditions
$logger->log_info( "..." );    # 1 normal messages, no action required
$logger->log_debug( "..." );   # 0 debugging messages (default)

DESCRIPTION

Logger class

Log level overview:

LVL SLL NAME      ALIAS    NOTE
 0   7  debug              debugging messages, copious tracing output
 1   6  info               normal messages, no action required
 2   5  notice    note     unusual conditions
 3   4  warning   warn     possible problem, not necessarily error
 4   3  error     err      non-urgent program errors, a bug
 5   2  critical  crit     failure in backup system
 6   1  alert              failure in primary system
 7   0  emergency emerg    system unusable
 8   0  fatal              system unusable, aborts program!
 9   0  exception except   exception, aborts program!

* SLL -- SysLog Level

METHODS

new

my $logger = CTK::Log->new(
        file        => "logs/foo.log",
        level       => "info", # or CTK::Log::LOG_INFO
        ident       => "ident string",
    );

Returns logger object for logging to file

my $logger = CTK::Log->new(
        level       => "info", # or CTK::Log::LOG_INFO
        ident       => "ident string",
    );

Returns logger object for logging to syslog

facility

The part of the system to report about, for example Sys::Syslog::LOG_USER. See Sys::Syslog

Default: Sys::Syslog::LOG_USER

file

Specifies log file. If not specify, then will be used syslog

Default: undef

ident

Specifies ident string for each log-record

ident = "test"

  [Mon Apr 29 20:02:04 2019] [info] [7936] [test] Blah Blah Blah

ident = undef

  [Mon Apr 29 20:02:04 2019] [info] [7936] Blah Blah Blah

Default: undef

level

This directive specifies the minimum possible priority level. You can use:

constants:

LOG_DEBUG
LOG_INFO
LOG_NOTICE or LOG_NOTE
LOG_WARNING or LOG_WARN
LOG_ERR or LOG_ERROR
LOG_CRIT
LOG_ALERT
LOG_EMERG or LOG_EMERGENCY
LOG_FATAL
LOG_EXCEPT or LOG_EXCEPTION

...or strings:

'debug'
'info'
'notice' or 'note'
'warning' or 'warn'
'error' or 'err'
'crit'
'alert'
'emerg' or 'emergency'
'fatal'
'except' or 'exception'

Default: LOG_DEBUG

pure

Specifies flag for suppressing prefixes log-data

ident = "test"
pure = 0

  [Mon Apr 29 19:12:55 2019] [crit] [7480] [test] Blah-Blah-Blah

ident = "test"
pure = 1

  [test] Blah-Blah-Blah

ident = undef
pure = 1

  Blah-Blah-Blah

Default: 0

separator

Separator of log-record elements

separator = " "

  [Mon Apr 29 20:02:04 2019] [info] [7936] [test] Blah Blah Blah

separator = ","

  [Mon Apr 29 20:02:04 2019],[info],[7936],[test],Blah Blah Blah

Default: " "

socketopts

Socket optrions for Sys::Syslog

Allowed formats, examples:

socketopts => "unix"
socketopts => ["unix"]
socketopts => { type => "tcp", port => 2486 }

Default: native

syslogopts

Options of Sys::Syslog

Default: ndelay,pid

usesyslog

Sets to 1 for send data to syslog forced

Default: 0

utf8

Sets flag utf8 for logging data. The flag is enabled by default

Default: 1

error

my $error = $logger->error;

Returns error string if occurred any errors while creating the object

status

print $logger->error unless $logger->status;

Returns boolean status of object creating

LOG METHODS

log

$logger->log( <LEVEL>, <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log( LOG_INFO, "Message: Blah-Blah-Blah" );
$logger->log( LOG_INFO, "Message: %s", "Blah-Blah-Blah" );
$logger->log( "info", "Message: Blah-Blah-Blah" );

Logging with info level (1). Same as log_info( "Message: %s", "Blah-Blah-Blah" )

log_debug

$logger->log_debug( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_debug( "the function returned 3" );
$logger->log_debug( "going to call function abc" );

Level 0: debug-level messages (default)

log_info

$logger->log_info( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_info( "File soandso successfully deleted." );

Level 1: informational

log_notice, log_note

$logger->log_notice( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_notice( "Attempted to create config, but config already exists." );

Level 2: normal but significant condition

log_warning, log_warn

$logger->log_warning( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_warning( "Couldn't delete the file." );

Level 3: warning conditions

log_error, log_err

$logger->log_error( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_error( "Division by zero attempted." );

Level 4: error conditions

log_crit, log_critical

$logger->log_crit( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_crit( "The battery is too hot!" );

Level 5: critical conditions

log_alert

$logger->log_alert( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_alert( "The battery died!" );

Level 6: action must be taken immediately

log_emerg, log_emergency

$logger->log_emerg( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_emerg( "No config found, cannot continue!" );

Level 7: system is unusable

log_fatal

$logger->log_fatal( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_fatal( "No free memory" );

Level 8: fatal

log_except, log_exception

$logger->log_except( <FORMAT>, <VALUE>, ... );
$logger->log_except( "Segmentation violation" );

Level 9: exception

HISTORY

See Changes file

DEPENDENCIES

Sys::Syslog, IO::File

TO DO

See TODO file

BUGS

* none noted

SEE ALSO

Sys::Syslog, IO::File

AUTHOR

Serż Minus (Sergey Lepenkov) https://www.serzik.com <abalama@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1998-2022 D&D Corporation. All Rights Reserved

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See LICENSE file and https://dev.perl.org/licenses/