[Feature Request] Event handlers for `FileSink` and `RotatingFileSink`
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Implement event handlers (reference from C++ spdlog) for FileSink
and RotatingFileSink
by adding new methods on the builders of these file sinks.
The names of these methods are tentatively designated as before_file_open
, after_file_open
, before_file_close
and after_file_close
.
Unsolved questions:
- Should we pass a
&mut PathBuf
tobefore_file_open
handler to allow users to change the file path?
Should we pass a &mut PathBuf to before_file_open handler to allow users to change the file path?
I don't think this is necessary since you can change the path via FileSinkBuilder::path
. A &Path
shoud suffice.
I don't think this is necessary since you can change the path via
FileSinkBuilder::path
. A&Path
shoud suffice.
But for RotatingFileSink
, a &mut PathBuf
allows the user to customize the rotated file name before creating the file, rather than renaming it after the file is closed. (context #49)
I'm thinking if there are any cons to doing it this way.
The reason I feel a bit strange is that if you give your user a &mut PathBuf
in the hook, it strongly expresses the intent that the hook exists solely for a very specific purpose: changing the filename. To implement this very specific requirement, a better API might be:
pub trait RotateFileOpener {
fn open(&self /*, other params */) -> PathBuf;
}
impl<ArgBP, ArgRP> RotateFileSinkBuilder<ArgBP, ArgRP> {
pub fn opener(self, opener: Box<dyn RotateFileOpener>) -> Self {
todo!()
}
}
The hook can be kept (and it should be kept). It's purpose is to give the user a change to do monitoring and bookkeeping jobs. But I still don't think changing the filename from the hook is a good idea. We have other approaches to express the indent more clearly.
The reason I feel a bit strange is that if you give your user a
&mut PathBuf
in the hook, it strongly expresses the intent that the hook exists solely for a very specific purpose: changing the filename.
Makes sense. So let's keep &Path
for before_file_open
of RotatingFileSink
.
The new trait RotateFileOpener
is a bit verbose if it's just for custom paths, and it should be designed to be a bit more powerful if it goes this way. Another option would be to just add something like the filename_calculator
in C++ spdlog. But for now let's table this idea, it seems a bit out of the scope of this issue. If anyone is interested in this in the future we will discuss it further in a new issue. For users who currently need to customize file names, they can workaround renaming files in after_file_close
.
So the current signatures of the event handlers will be
(reference from C++ spdlog)
before_file_open : impl Fn(path: &Path)
after_file_open : impl Fn(path: &Path, file: &mut File)
before_file_close : impl Fn(path: &Path, file: &mut File)
after_file_close : impl Fn(path: &Path)
Is it right?
So the current signatures of the event handlers will be
[...]
Is it right?
What's the purpose of the &mut File
parameter? This would allow the user to replace the File
object completely through the mutable reference.