################################################## package Log::Log4perl::Appender; ################################################## use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; use Log::Log4perl::Level; use Carp; use constant _INTERNAL_DEBUG => 0; our $unique_counter = 0; ################################################## sub reset { ################################################## $unique_counter = 0; } ################################################## sub unique_name { ################################################## # THREADS: Need to lock here to make it thread safe $unique_counter++; my $unique_name = sprintf("app%03d", $unique_counter); # THREADS: Need to unlock here to make it thread safe return $unique_name; } ################################################## sub new { ################################################## my($class, $appenderclass, %params) = @_; # Pull in the specified Log::Log4perl::Appender object eval { # Eval erroneously succeeds on unknown appender classes if # the eval string just consists of valid perl code (e.g. an # appended ';' in $appenderclass variable). Fail if we see # anything in there that can't be class name. die "'$appenderclass' not a valid class name " if $appenderclass =~ /[^:\w]/; # Check if the class/package is already available because # something like Class::Prototyped injected it previously. # Use UNIVERSAL::can to check the appender's new() method # [RT 28987] if( ! $appenderclass->can('new') ) { # Not available yet, try to pull it in. # see 'perldoc -f require' for why two evals eval "require $appenderclass"; #unless ${$appenderclass.'::IS_LOADED'}; #for unit tests, #see 004Config die $@ if $@; } }; $@ and die "ERROR: can't load appenderclass '$appenderclass'\n$@"; print "Appender class $appenderclass loaded OK ($@)\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; $params{name} = unique_name() unless exists $params{name}; # If it's a Log::Dispatch::File appender, default to append # mode (Log::Dispatch::File defaults to 'clobber') -- consensus 9/2002 # (Log::Log4perl::Appender::File already defaults to 'append') if ($appenderclass eq 'Log::Dispatch::File' && ! exists $params{mode}) { $params{mode} = 'append'; } print "Calling $appenderclass new\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; my $appender = $appenderclass->new( # Set min_level to the lowest setting. *we* are # controlling this now, the appender should just # log it with no questions asked. min_level => 'debug', # Set 'name' and other parameters map { $_ => $params{$_} } keys %params, ); print "Calling $appenderclass new returned OK\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; my $self = { appender => $appender, name => $params{name}, layout => undef, level => $ALL, composite => 0, }; #whether to collapse arrays, etc. $self->{warp_message} = $params{warp_message}; if (!$INC{'Log/Log4perl/Config.pm'}) { require Log::Log4perl::Config; } if($self->{warp_message} and my $cref = Log::Log4perl::Config::compile_if_perl($self->{warp_message})) { $self->{warp_message} = $cref; } bless $self, $class; return $self; } ################################################## sub composite { # Set/Get the composite flag ################################################## my ($self, $flag) = @_; $self->{composite} = $flag if defined $flag; return $self->{composite}; } ################################################## sub threshold { # Set/Get the appender threshold ################################################## my ($self, $level) = @_; print "Setting threshold to $level\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; if(defined $level) { # Checking for \d makes for a faster regex(p) $self->{level} = ($level =~ /^(\d+)$/) ? $level : # Take advantage of &to_priority's error reporting Log::Log4perl::Level::to_priority($level); } return $self->{level}; } ################################################## sub log { ################################################## # Relay this call to Log::Log4perl::Appender:* or # Log::Dispatch::* ################################################## my ($self, $p, $category, $level, $cache) = @_; # Check if the appender has a last-minute veto in form # of an "appender threshold" if($self->{level} > $ Log::Log4perl::Level::PRIORITY{$level}) { print "$self->{level} > $level, aborting\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; return undef; } # Run against the (yes only one) customized filter (which in turn # might call other filters via the Boolean filter) and check if its # ok() method approves the message or blocks it. if($self->{filter}) { if($self->{filter}->ok(%$p, log4p_category => $category, log4p_level => $level )) { print "Filter $self->{filter}->{name} passes\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; } else { print "Filter $self->{filter}->{name} blocks\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; return undef; } } unless($self->composite()) { #not defined, the normal case if (! defined $self->{warp_message} ){ #join any message elements if (ref $p->{message} eq "ARRAY") { for my $i (0..$#{$p->{message}}) { if( !defined $p->{message}->[ $i ] ) { local $Carp::CarpLevel = $Carp::CarpLevel + $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth + 1; carp "Warning: Log message argument #" . ($i+1) . " undefined"; } } $p->{message} = join($Log::Log4perl::JOIN_MSG_ARRAY_CHAR, @{$p->{message}} ); } #defined but false, e.g. Appender::DBI } elsif (! $self->{warp_message}) { ; #leave the message alone } elsif (ref($self->{warp_message}) eq "CODE") { #defined and a subref $p->{message} = [$self->{warp_message}->(@{$p->{message}})]; } else { #defined and a function name? no strict qw(refs); $p->{message} = [$self->{warp_message}->(@{$p->{message}})]; } $p->{message} = $self->{layout}->render($p->{message}, $category, $level, 3 + $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth, ) if $self->layout(); } my $args = [%$p, log4p_category => $category, log4p_level => $level]; if(defined $cache) { $$cache = $args; } else { $self->{appender}->log(@$args); } return 1; } ########################################### sub log_cached { ########################################### my ($self, $cache) = @_; $self->{appender}->log(@$cache); } ################################################## sub name { # Set/Get the name ################################################## my($self, $name) = @_; # Somebody wants to *set* the name? if($name) { $self->{name} = $name; } return $self->{name}; } ########################################### sub layout { # Set/Get the layout object # associated with this appender ########################################### my($self, $layout) = @_; # Somebody wants to *set* the layout? if($layout) { $self->{layout} = $layout; # somebody wants a layout, but not set yet, so give 'em default }elsif (! $self->{layout}) { $self->{layout} = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout ->new($self->{name}); } return $self->{layout}; } ################################################## sub filter { # Set filter ################################################## my ($self, $filter) = @_; if($filter) { print "Setting filter to $filter->{name}\n" if _INTERNAL_DEBUG; $self->{filter} = $filter; } return $self->{filter}; } ################################################## sub AUTOLOAD { ################################################## # Relay everything else to the underlying # Log::Log4perl::Appender::* or Log::Dispatch::* # object ################################################## my $self = shift; no strict qw(vars); $AUTOLOAD =~ s/.*:://; if(! defined $self->{appender}) { die "Can't locate object method $AUTOLOAD() in ", __PACKAGE__; } return $self->{appender}->$AUTOLOAD(@_); } ################################################## sub DESTROY { ################################################## foreach my $key (keys %{$_[0]}) { # print "deleting $key\n"; delete $_[0]->{$key}; } } 1; __END__ =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME Log::Log4perl::Appender - Log appender class =head1 SYNOPSIS use Log::Log4perl; # Define a logger my $logger = Log::Log4perl->get_logger("abc.def.ghi"); # Define a layout my $layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout->new( "%d (%F:%L)> %m"); # Define an appender my $appender = Log::Log4perl::Appender->new( "Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen", name => 'dumpy'); # Set the appender's layout $appender->layout($layout); $logger->add_appender($appender); =head1 DESCRIPTION This class is a wrapper around the C appender set. It also supports the collections of appenders. The module hides the idiosyncrasies of C (e.g. every dispatcher gotta have a name, but there's no accessor to retrieve it) from C and yet re-uses the extremely useful variety of dispatchers already created and tested in C. =head1 FUNCTIONS =head2 Log::Log4perl::Appender->new($dispatcher_class_name, ...); The constructor C takes the name of the appender class to be created as a I (!) argument, optionally followed by a number of appender-specific parameters, for example: # Define an appender my $appender = Log::Log4perl::Appender->new( "Log::Log4perl::Appender::File" filename => 'out.log'); In case of C appenders, if no C parameter is specified, the appender object will create a unique one (format C), which can be retrieved later via the C method: print "The appender's name is ", $appender->name(), "\n"; Other parameters are specific to the appender class being used. In the case above, the C parameter specifies the name of the C dispatcher used. However, if, for instance, you're using a C dispatcher to send you email, you'll have to specify C and C email addresses. Every dispatcher is different. Please check the C documentation for the appender used for details on specific requirements. The C method will just pass these parameters on to a newly created C object of the specified type. When it comes to logging, the C will transparently relay all messages to the C object it carries in its womb. =head2 $appender->layout($layout); The C method sets the log layout used by the appender to the format specified by the C object which is passed to it as a reference. Currently there's two layouts available: Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout Please check the L and L manual pages for details. =head1 Supported Appenders Here's the list of appender modules currently available via C, if not noted otherwise, written by Dave Rolsky: Log::Dispatch::ApacheLog Log::Dispatch::DBI (by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) Log::Dispatch::Email, Log::Dispatch::Email::MailSend, Log::Dispatch::Email::MailSendmail, Log::Dispatch::Email::MIMELite Log::Dispatch::File Log::Dispatch::FileRotate (by Mark Pfeiffer) Log::Dispatch::Handle Log::Dispatch::Screen Log::Dispatch::Syslog Log::Dispatch::Tk (by Dominique Dumont) C doesn't care which ones you use, they're all handled in the same way via the C interface. Please check the well-written manual pages of the C hierarchy on how to use each one of them. =head1 Parameters passed on to the appender's log() method When calling the appender's log()-Funktion, Log::Log4perl will submit a list of key/value pairs. Entries to the following keys are guaranteed to be present: =over 4 =item message Text of the rendered message =item log4p_category Name of the category of the logger that triggered the event. =item log4p_level Log::Log4perl level of the event =back =head1 Pitfalls Since the C appender truncates log files by default, and most of the time this is I what you want, we've instructed C to change this behavior by slipping it the C append> parameter behind the scenes. So, effectively with C 0.23, a configuration like log4perl.category = INFO, FileAppndr log4perl.appender.FileAppndr = Log::Dispatch::File log4perl.appender.FileAppndr.filename = test.log log4perl.appender.FileAppndr.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout will always I to an existing logfile C while if you specifically request clobbering like in log4perl.category = INFO, FileAppndr log4perl.appender.FileAppndr = Log::Dispatch::File log4perl.appender.FileAppndr.filename = test.log log4perl.appender.FileAppndr.mode = write log4perl.appender.FileAppndr.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout it will overwrite an existing log file C and start from scratch. =head1 Appenders Expecting Message Chunks Instead of simple strings, certain appenders are expecting multiple fields as log messages. If a statement like $logger->debug($ip, $user, "signed in"); causes an off-the-shelf C appender to fire, the appender will just concatenate the three message chunks passed to it in order to form a single string. The chunks will be separated by a string defined in C<$Log::Log4perl::JOIN_MSG_ARRAY_CHAR> (defaults to the empty string ""). However, different appenders might choose to interpret the message above differently: An appender like C might take the three arguments passed to the logger and put them in three separate rows into the DB. The C appender option is used to specify the desired behavior. If no setting for the appender property # *** Not defined *** # log4perl.appender.SomeApp.warp_message is defined in the Log4perl configuration file, the appender referenced by C will fall back to the standard behavior and join all message chunks together, separating them by C<$Log::Log4perl::JOIN_MSG_ARRAY_CHAR>. If, on the other hand, it is set to a false value, like in log4perl.appender.SomeApp.layout=NoopLayout log4perl.appender.SomeApp.warp_message = 0 then the message chunks are passed unmodified to the appender as an array reference. Please note that you need to set the appender's layout to C which just leaves the messages chunks alone instead of formatting them or replacing conversion specifiers. B (or the function name syntax defined below) on them. Only special appenders like Log::Log4perl::Appender::DBI can deal with this.> If (and now we're getting fancy) an appender expects message chunks, but we would like to pre-inspect and probably modify them before they're actually passed to the appender's C method, an inspection subroutine can be defined with the appender's C property: log4perl.appender.SomeApp.layout=NoopLayout log4perl.appender.SomeApp.warp_message = sub { \ $#_ = 2 if @_ > 3; \ return @_; } The inspection subroutine defined by the C property will receive the list of message chunks, like they were passed to the logger and is expected to return a corrected list. The example above simply limits the argument list to a maximum of three by cutting off excess elements and returning the shortened list. Also, the warp function can be specified by name like in log4perl.appender.SomeApp.layout=NoopLayout log4perl.appender.SomeApp.warp_message = main::filter_my_message In this example, C is a function in the C
package, defined like this: my $COUNTER = 0; sub filter_my_message { my @chunks = @_; unshift @chunks, ++$COUNTER; return @chunks; } The subroutine above will add an ever increasing counter as an additional first field to every message passed to the C appender -- but not to any other appender in the system. =head2 Composite Appenders Composite appenders relay their messages to sub-appenders after providing some filtering or synchronizing functionality on incoming messages. Examples are Log::Log4perl::Appender::Synchronized, Log::Log4perl::Appender::Limit, and Log::Log4perl::Appender::Buffer. Check their manual pages for details. Composite appender objects are regular Log::Log4perl::Appender objects, but they have the composite flag set: $app->composite(1); and they define a post_init() method, which sets the appender it relays its messages to: ########################################### sub post_init { ############################################ my($self) = @_; if(! exists $self->{appender}) { die "No appender defined for " . __PACKAGE__; } my $appenders = Log::Log4perl->appenders(); my $appender = Log::Log4perl->appenders()->{$self->{appender}}; if(! defined $appender) { die "Appender $self->{appender} not defined (yet) when " . __PACKAGE__ . " needed it"; } $self->{app} = $appender; } The reason for this post-processing step is that the relay appender might not be defined yet when the composite appender gets defined. This can happen if Log4perl is initialized with a configuration file (which is the most common way to initialize Log4perl), because appenders spring into existence in unpredictable order. For example, if you define a Synchronized appender like log4perl.appender.Syncer = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Synchronized log4perl.appender.Syncer.appender = Logfile then Log4perl will set the appender's C attribute to the I of the appender to finally relay messages to. After the Log4perl configuration file has been processed, Log4perl will remember to call the composite appender's post_init() method, which will grab the relay appender instance referred to by the name (Logfile) and set it in its C attribute. This is exactly what the code snippet above does. But if you initialize Log4perl by its API, you need to remember to perform these steps. Here's the lineup: use Log::Log4perl qw(get_logger :levels); my $fileApp = Log::Log4perl::Appender->new( 'Log::Log4perl::Appender::File', name => 'MyFileApp', filename => 'mylog', mode => 'append', ); $fileApp->layout( Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout::Multiline->new( '%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %p [%c] #%P> %m%n') ); # Make the appender known to the system (without assigning it to # any logger Log::Log4perl->add_appender( $fileApp ); my $syncApp = Log::Log4perl::Appender->new( 'Log::Log4perl::Appender::Synchronized', name => 'MySyncApp', appender => 'MyFileApp', key => 'nem', ); $syncApp->post_init(); $syncApp->composite(1); # The Synchronized appender is now ready, assign it to a logger # and start logging. get_logger("")->add_appender($syncApp); get_logger("")->level($DEBUG); get_logger("wonk")->debug("waah!"); The composite appender's log() function will typically cache incoming messages until a certain trigger condition is met and then forward a bulk of messages to the relay appender. Caching messages is surprisingly tricky, because you want them to look like they came from the code location they were originally issued from and not from the location that triggers the flush. Luckily, Log4perl offers a cache mechanism for messages, all you need to do is call the base class' log() function with an additional reference to a scalar, and then save its content to your composite appender's message buffer afterwards: ########################################### sub log { ########################################### my($self, %params) = @_; # ... some logic to decide whether to cache or flush # Adjust the caller stack local $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth = $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth + 2; # We need to cache. # Ask the appender to save a cached message in $cache $self->{relay_app}->SUPER::log(\%params, $params{log4p_category}, $params{log4p_level}, \my $cache); # Save it in the appender's message buffer push @{ $self->{buffer} }, $cache; } Note that before calling the log() method of the relay appender's base class (and thus introducing two additional levels on the call stack), we need to adjust the call stack to allow Log4perl to render cspecs like the %M or %L correctly. The cache will then contain a correctly rendered message, according to the layout of the target appender. Later, when the time comes to flush the cached messages, a call to the relay appender's base class' log_cached() method with the cached message as an argument will forward the correctly rendered message: ########################################### sub log { ########################################### my($self, %params) = @_; # ... some logic to decide whether to cache or flush # Flush pending messages if we have any for my $cache (@{$self->{buffer}}) { $self->{relay_app}->SUPER::log_cached($cache); } } =head1 SEE ALSO Log::Dispatch =head1 LICENSE Copyright 2002-2013 by Mike Schilli Em@perlmeister.comE and Kevin Goess Ecpan@goess.orgE. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 AUTHOR Please contribute patches to the project on Github: http://github.com/mschilli/log4perl Send bug reports or requests for enhancements to the authors via our MAILING LIST (questions, bug reports, suggestions/patches): log4perl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Authors (please contact them via the list above, not directly): Mike Schilli , Kevin Goess Contributors (in alphabetical order): Ateeq Altaf, Cory Bennett, Jens Berthold, Jeremy Bopp, Hutton Davidson, Chris R. Donnelly, Matisse Enzer, Hugh Esco, Anthony Foiani, James FitzGibbon, Carl Franks, Dennis Gregorovic, Andy Grundman, Paul Harrington, Alexander Hartmaier David Hull, Robert Jacobson, Jason Kohles, Jeff Macdonald, Markus Peter, Brett Rann, Peter Rabbitson, Erik Selberg, Aaron Straup Cope, Lars Thegler, David Viner, Mac Yang.