DEPRECATED - No longer maintained

good-magic

A dynamic Hapijs good reporter that can change logging level and type on a live server without restart

Install

No npm package for now so use git

git clone https://github.com/yonjah/good-magic.git
cd good-magic
npm install

Usage

Magic is not like other reporters you will need to get a Magic object before passing it on to Good. Once you have a Magic Object pass its reporter to Good as you would with any other good-reporter. The only arg is an object with another reporter settings.

Lets create a Magic reporter wrapping good-console

var hapi        = require('hapi'),
    server      = new hapi.Server(),
    good        = require('good'),
    goodConsole = require('good-console'),
    goodMagic   = require('good-magic'),

server.connection({ host: 'localhost' });
magic = goodMagic();

server.register({
        register: good,
        options: {
            reporters: [{
                    reporter: magic.Reporter
                    args:[{
                        reporter: goodConsole,
                        args:[{
                            log     : ['info']
                        }]
                    }]
                }]
        }
}, function (err) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    server.start(function () {
        server.log('info', 'Server started at ' + server.info.uri);
        server.log('error', 'You wont see this ');
    });
});

Now when we have a Magic reporter wrapping good-console and you should see that it started on the console. You wont see the error in the console since we are only logging info typed logs.

But what if we want to have a way to see the error log ? or maybe even other stuff like ops well thats exactly why we need Magic. we can add a route that will call magic.update and change our log level

server.route({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/debug',
    handler: function debugHandler (request, reply) {
        var events = {
            log     : '*',
            error   : '*',
            ops     : '*'
        };
        magic.update(goodConsole, [events], function(){
            server.log('info', 'Updated log level: ' + JSON.stringify(events));
            server.log('error', 'You will now see this Error');
            reply();
        });
    }
});

On production system you might want to limit the access to this route for a specific IP (like only allow request from localhost)