/cni-log

Cni-log provides general logging functionality for Container Network Interfaces (CNI).

Primary LanguageGo

CNI Log

The purpose of this package is to perform logging for CNI projects in NPWG. Cni-log provides general logging functionality for Container Network Interfaces (CNI). Messages can be logged to a log file and/or to standard error.

Usage

The package can function out of the box as most of its configurations have default values. Just call any of the logging functions to start logging. To further define log settings such as the log file path, the log level, as well as the lumberjack logger object, continue on to the public functions below.

Importing cni-log

Import cni-log in your go file:

import (
    ...
    "github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/cni-log"
    ...
)

Then perform a go mod tidy to download the package.

Customizing the logging prefix/header

CNI-log allows users to modify the logging prefix/header. The default prefix is in the following format:

yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SSZ [<log level>] ...

E.g.

2022-10-11T13:09:57Z [info] This is a log message with INFO log level

To change the prefix used by cni-log, you will need to provide the implementation of how the prefix string would be built. To do so you will need to create an object of type Prefixer. Prefixer is an interface with one function:

CreatePrefix(Level) string

Implement the above function with the code that would build the prefix string. In order for CNI-Log to use your custom prefix you will then need to pass in your custom prefix object using the SetPrefixer function.

Below is sample code on how to build a custom prefix:

package main
import (
  ...
  logging "github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/cni-log"
  ...
)

// custom prefix type
type customPrefix struct {
	prefixFormat string
	timeFormat   string
	currentFile  string
}

func main() {
  // cni-log configuration
	logging.SetLogFile("samplelog.log")
	logging.SetLogLevel(logging.VerboseLevel)
	logging.SetLogStderr(true)

  // Creating the custom prefix object
	prefix := &customPrefix{
		prefixFormat: "%s | %s | %s | ",
		timeFormat:   time.RFC850,
		currentFile:  "main.go",
	}
	logging.SetPrefixer(prefix) // Tell cni-log to use your custom prefix object

  // Log messages
	logging.Infof("Info log message")
	logging.Warningf("Warning log message")
}

// Implement the CreatePrefix function using your custom prefix object. This function will be called by CNI-Log
// to build the prefix string. 
func (p *customPrefix) CreatePrefix(loggingLevel logging.Level) string {
	currentTime := time.Now()
	return fmt.Sprintf(p.prefixFormat, currentTime.Format(p.timeFormat), p.currentFile, loggingLevel)
}

Public Types & Functions

Types

Level
// Level type
type Level int

Defines the type that will represent the different log levels

Prefixer
type Prefixer interface {
  CreatePrefix(Level) string
}

Defines an interface that contains one function: CreatePrefix(Level) string. Implementing this function allows you to build your own custom prefix.

LogOptions
// LogOptions defines the configuration of the lumberjack logger
type LogOptions struct {
	MaxAge     *int  `json:"maxAge,omitempty"`
	MaxSize    *int  `json:"maxSize,omitempty"`
	MaxBackups *int  `json:"maxBackups,omitempty"`
	Compress   *bool `json:"compress,omitempty"`
}

For further details of each field, see the lumberjack documentation.

To view the default values of each field, go to the "Default values" section

Public setup functions

SetLogLevel
func SetLogLevel(level Level)

Sets the log level. The valid log levels are:

int string Level
1 panic PanicLevel
2 error ErrorLevel
3 warning WarningLevel
4 info InfoLevel
5 debug DebugLevel
6 verbose VerboseLevel

The log levels above are in ascending order of verbosity. For example, setting the log level to InfoLevel would mean "panic", "error", warning", and "info" messages will get logged while "debug", and "verbose" will not.

GetLogLevel
func GetLogLevel() Level

Returns the current log level

StringToLevel
func StringToLevel(level string) Level

Returns the Level equivalent of a string. See SetLogLevel for valid levels.

String
func (l Level) String() string

Returns the string representation of a log level

SetLogStderr
func SetLogStderr(enable bool)

This function allows you to enable/disable logging to standard error.

SetLogOptions
func SetLogOptions(options *LogOptions)

Configures the lumberjack object based on the lumberjack configuration data set in the logOptions object (see logOptions struct above).

SetLogFile
func SetLogFile(filename string)

Configures where logs will be written to. If an empty/invalid filepath (e.g. insufficient permissions), or a symbolic link is passed into the function, the default log filepath is used.

SetOutput
func SetOutput(out io.Writer)

Set custom output. Calling this function will discard any previously set LogOptions.

SetPrefixer
func SetPrefixer(p Prefixer)

This function allows you to override the default logging prefix with a custom prefix.

Logging functions

// Errorf prints logging if logging level >= error
func Errorf(format string, a ...interface{}) error 

// Warningf prints logging if logging level >= warning
func Warningf(format string, a ...interface{})

// Infof prints logging if logging level >= info
func Infof(format string, a ...interface{})

// Debugf prints logging if logging level >= debug
func Debugf(format string, a ...interface{})

// Verbosef prints logging if logging level >= verbose
func Verbosef(format string, a ...interface{})

Default values

Variable Default Value
logLevel info
Logger.Filename /var/log/cni-log.log
LogOptions.MaxSize 100
LogOptions.MaxAge 5
LogOptions.MaxBackups 5
LogOptions.Compress true