Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Handler - Catalyst Plugin for Log::Handler

Version 0.08

    use Catalyst qw(Log::Handler);

Catalyst configuration (e. g. in YAML format):

    Log::Handler:
        file:
            filename: /var/log/myapp.log
            fileopen: 1
            mode: append
            newline: 1

To log a message:

    $c->log->debug('Greetings from the people of earth');
    $c->log->info ('This is an info message.');
    $c->log->warn ('This is the last warning.');
    $c->log->error('This is an error message.');
    $c->log->fatal('This is a fatal message.');
    $c->handler->crit('This is a critical message.');

If your Catalyst project logs many messages, logging via standard error to Apache's error log is not very clean: The log messages are mixed with other web applications' noise; and especially if you use mod_fastcgi, every line will be prepended with a long prefix.

An alternative is logging to a file. But then you have to make sure that multiple processes won't corrupt the log file. The module Log::Handler by Jonny Schulz does exactly this, because it supports message-wise flocking.

This module is a wrapper for said Log::Handler.

These methods map to the Log::Handler methods with the same name, except for fatal, which maps to emergency, and warn, which maps to warning. This is because Catalyst and Log::Handler don't use the same names for log levels.

To log a message with a level that is no common Catalyst log level, you can use the handler method (see SYNOPSIS).

These methods map to the Log::Handler methods is_debug, is_info, is_warning, is_error, is_emergency, respectively.

Returns the Log::Handler object.

All configuration options are passed verbatim to Log::Handler::new. See Log::Handler for explanation of the options. I think that the example configuration at the beginning of this document is very well-suited for a Catalyst application. (Except for the file name, of course.)

To be consistent with Catalyst::Log, the options minlevel and maxlevel default to 0 and 7, respectively, i. e. all messages are logged. The other defaults are not touched.

If you use Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader, please load this module after Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader.

Christoph Bussenius <pepe(at)cpan.org>

If you use this module, I'll be glad if you drop me a note. You should mention this module's name (or the short form CPLH) in the subject of your mails, in order to make sure they won't get lost in all the spam.

Copyright (C) 2007,2010 Christoph Bussenius.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.