Logger

Logger is a minimalistic logger class, which allows to log arbitrary message-types to a file. Also, the log is (or can) be mirrored to std::cout, and writing to a file or the complete logging mechanism can be deactivated.

Folder structure

src contains the source code (Logger class).
test contains a test application to test the correct functionality.

Including and compiling SimpleException in a project

In order to use Logger, <path>/Logger/src/Logger.hpp needs to be included. In order to compile Logger, following files need to be compiled and linked:

<path>/Logger/src/LogType.hpp
<path>/Logger/src/Logger.hpp

Usage

Basic usage

Instantiate a new Logger-Object with a name and a path: Logger log( "<logName>", "<path>" );.
1. A file with <logName>.log gets created in , if it doesn't exist yet.
Write several log lines:

log.writeInfo( "testinfo" );
log.writeWarn( "testwarn" );
log.writeDebug( "testdebug" );
log.writeError( "testerror" );
log.write( "custom", "testcustom" );

If creating the file or writing to it fails, an error message will be printed on std::cerr.

Notes

Since Logger is using streams to interact with files and std::cout, writing to such a stream is usually synchronized. But in the cases of string-concatenation with the +-operator for example, it is possible that data races will occur while writing to a stream. To avoid this, construct ephemeral string objects in the case of concatenation (std::string( "a" + "b" )) or use std::stringstream to compose a string before passing it to one of Logger's write-functions.

License

   Copyright 2019 Jan-Eric Schober

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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