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Log::Trace - provides a unified approach to tracing
# The tracing targets
use Log::Trace; # No output
use Log::Trace 'print'; # print to STDOUT
use Log::Trace log => '/var/log/foo.log'; # Output to log file
use Log::Trace print => { Level => 3 };
# Switch on/off logging with a constant
use Log::Trace;
import Log::Trace ('log' => LOGFILE) if TRACING;
# Set up tracing for all packages that advertise TRACE
use Foo;
use Bar;
use Log::Trace warn => { Deep => 1 };
# Sets up tracing in all subpackages excluding Foo
use Log::Trace warn => {Deep => 1, 'Exclude' => 'Foo'};
# Exported functions
TRACE("Record this...");
TRACE({Level => 2}, "Only shown if tracing level is 2 or higher");
TRACEF("A la printf: %d-%.2f", 1, 2.9999);
TRACE_HERE(); # Record where we are (file, line, sub, args)
DUMP(\@loh, \%hoh); # Trace out via Data::Dumper
DUMP("Title", \@loh); # Trace out via Data::Dumper
my $dump = DUMP(@args); # Dump is returned without being traced
A module to provide a unified approach to tracing. A script can use
Log::Trace qw( < mode > ) to set the behaviour of the TRACE function.
By default, the trace functions are exported to the calling package only. You
can export the trace functions to other packages with the Deep option. See
"OPTIONS" for more information.
All exports are in uppercase (to minimise collisions with "real" functions).
Output a message. Where the message actually goes depends on how you imported Log::Trace (See "Importing/enabling Log::Trace")
The first argument is an optional hashref of options:
TRACE('A simple message');
vs:
TRACE({ Level => 2.1 }, 'A message at a specified trace level');
printf() equivalent of TRACE. Also accepts an optional hashref:
TRACEF('%d items', scalar @items);
TRACEF({ Level => 5 }, '$%1.2d', $value);
Serialises each of @args, optionally prepended with $message. If called in a non-void context, DUMP will return the serialised data rather than TRACE it. This is useful if you want to DUMP a datastructure at a specific tracing level.
DUMP('colours', [qw(red green blue)]); # outputs via TRACE
my $dump = DUMP('colours', [qw(red green blue)]); # output returned
TRACEs the current position on the call stack (file, line number, subroutine name, subroutine args).
TRACE_HERE();
TRACE_HERE({Level => 99});
Controls where TRACE messages go. This method is called automatically when you
call 'use Log::Trace;', but you may explicitly call this method at
runtime. Compare the following:
use Log::Trace 'print';
which is the same as
BEGIN {
require Log::Trace;
Log::Trace->import('print');
}
Valid combinations of $target and arg are:
Prints trace messages to the supplied $filehandle. Defaults to STDOUT
if no file handle is specified.
Prints trace messages via warn()s to STDERR.
Appends trace messages to a string reference.
Append trace messages to a file. If the file doesn't exist, it will be created.
This is equivalent to:
use Log::Trace file => $filename, {Verbose => 2};
Logs trace messages to syslog via Sys::Syslog, if available.
You should consult your syslog configuration before using this option.
The default $priority is 'debug', and the ident is set to
Log::Trace. You can configure the priority, but beyond that, you can
implement your own syslogging via the custom trace target.
Trace messages are processed by a custom subroutine. E.g.
use Log::Trace custom => \&mylogger;
sub mylogger {
my @messages = @_;
foreach (@messages) {
# highly sensitive trace messages!
tr/a-zA-Z/n-za-mN-ZA-M/;
print;
}
}
The import \%params are optional. These two statements are functionally the
same:
import Log::Trace print => {Level => undef};
import Log::Trace 'print';
See "OPTIONS" for more information.
Note: If you use the custom tracing option, you should be careful about
supplying a subroutine named TRACE.
Attaches a TRACE statement to all subroutines in the package. This can be
used to track the execution path of your code. It is particularly useful when
used in conjunction with Deep and Everywhere options.
Note: Anonymous subroutines and AUTOLOAD are not TRACEd.
By default, Log::Trace will only set up TRACE routines in modules that
have already been loaded. This option overrides require() so that modules
loaded after Log::Trace can automatically be set up for tracing.
Note: This is an experimental feature. See the ENVIRONMENT NOTES for information about behaviour under different versions of perl.
This option has no effect on perl < 5.6
Attaches Log::Trace to all packages (that define a TRACE function). Any
TRACEF, DUMP and TRACE_HERE routines will also be overridden in these packages.
Specify a serialiser to be used for DUMPing data structures.
This should either be a string naming a Data::Serializer backend (e.g. "YAML") or a hashref of parameters which will be passed to Data::Serializer, e.g.
{
serializer => 'XML::Dumper',
options => {
dtd => 'path/to/my.dtd'
}
}
Note that the raw_serialise() method of Data::Serializer is used. See Data::Serializer for more information.
If you do not have Data::Serializer installed, leave this option undefined to use the
Data::Dumper natively.
Default: undef (use standalone Data::Dumper)
When used in conjunction with the Deep option, it will override the
standard behaviour of only enabling tracing in packages that define TRACE
stubs.
Default: false
Exclude a module or list of modules from tracing.
Specifies which trace levels to display.
If no Level is defined, all TRACE statements will be output.
If the value is numeric, only TRACEs that are at the specified level or below will be output.
If the value is a list of numbers, only TRACEs that match the specified levels are output.
The level may also be a code reference which is passed the package name and the TRACE level. It mst return a true value if the TRACE is to be output.
Default: undef
Exports trace functions to packages that match the supplied regular
expression. Can be used in conjunction with Exclude. You can also use
Match as an exclusion method if you give it a negative look-ahead.
For example:
Match => qr/^(?!Acme::)/ # will exclude every module beginning with Acme::
and
Match => qr/^Acme::/ # does the reverse
Default: '.' # everything
You can use this option to prepend extra information to each trace message. The levels represent increasing levels of verbosity:
0: the default*, don't add anything 1: adds subroutine name and line number to the trace output 2: As [1], plus a filename and timestamp (in ISO 8601 : 2000 format)
This setting has no effect on the custom or log targets.
* the log target uses 'Verbose' level 2
The AutoImport feature overrides CORE::require() which requires perl 5.6, but you may see unexpected errors if you aren't using at
least perl 5.8. The AutoImport option has no effect on perl < 5.6.
In mod_perl or other persistent interpreter environments, different applications could trample on each other's
TRACE routines if they use Deep (or Everywhere) option. For example application A could route all the trace output
from Package::Foo into "appA.log" and then application B could import Log::Trace over the top, re-routing all the trace output from Package::Foo
to "appB.log" for evermore. One way around this is to ensure you always import Log::Trace on every run in a persistent environment from all your
applications that use the Deep option. We may provide some more tools to work around this in a later version of Log::Trace.
Log::Trace has not been tested in a multi-threaded application.
Carp Time::HiRes (used if available) Data::Dumper (used if available - necessary for meaningful DUMP output) Data::Serializer (optional - to customise DUMP output) Sys::Syslog (loaded on demand)
Log::TraceMessages is similar in design and purpose to Log::Trace.
However, it only offers a subset of this module's functionality. Most notably,
it doesn't offer a mechanism to control the tracing output of an entire
application - tracing must be enabled on a module-by-module
basis. Log::Trace also offers control over the output with the trace
levels and supports more output targets.
Log::Agent offers a procedural interface to logging. It strikes a good
balance between configurability and ease of use. It differs to Log::Trace in
a number of ways. Log::Agent has a concept of channels and priorities, while
Log::Trace only offers levels. Log::Trace also supports tracing code
execution path and the Deep import option. Log::Trace trades a certain
amount of configurability for increased ease-of use.
A feature rich perl port of the popular log4j library for Java. It is
object-oriented and comprised of more than 30 modules. It has an impressive
feature set, but some people may be frightened of its complexity. In contrast,
to use Log::Trace you need only remember up to 4 simple functions and a
handful of configuration options.
Log::Trace::Manual - A guide to using Log::Trace
$Revision: 1.70 $ on $Date: 2005/11/01 11:32:59 $ by $Author: colinr $
John Alden and Simon Flack with some additions by Piers Kent and Wayne Myers <cpan _at_ bbc _dot_ co _dot_ uk>
(c) BBC 2005. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the GNU GPL.
See the file COPYING in this distribution, or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
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package Log::Trace; use Carp; #Hires times if available eval { require Time::HiRes; }; use vars qw($VERSION @EXPORT); @EXPORT = qw(TRACE_HERE TRACEF); # TRACE, DUMP use strict qw(subs vars); use Fcntl ':flock'; $VERSION = sprintf"%d.%03d", q$Revision: 1.70 $ =~ /: (\d+)\.(\d+)/; ################################################# # Importing ################################################# *{"_debug"} = 0 ? sub { warn __PACKAGE__ . " @_\n" } : sub {}; #Import into calling packages sub import { my $pkg = shift; my $callpkg = caller(0); my @args = @_; if (ref $args[1] eq 'HASH') { # e.g. 'import (print => {Verbose => 1}) @args = ($args[0], undef, @args[1..$#args]) } $pkg->_import($callpkg, @args); } sub deep_import # deprecated. use 'import Log::Trace {Deep => 1, ...} ...' { my $pkg = shift; my $callpkg = caller(0); my $params = ref $_[0] ? shift : {}; $params->{Deep} = 1; push @_, undef if @_ == 1; # deep_import 'print'; $pkg->_import($callpkg, @_, $params); } sub TRACEF { my $callpkg = caller(); my $trace = *{"$callpkg\::TRACE"}; my $params = ref $_[0] ? shift : {}; my $format = shift; $trace->($params, sprintf($format, @_)); } sub TRACE_HERE { my $callpkg = caller(); my $params = ref $_[0] ? shift : {}; # see 'perldoc -f caller' # calling caller() from the DB package stores subroutine args in @DB::args my @caller; do { package DB; @caller = caller(1); @caller = caller(0) unless $caller[0]; }; my $sub = $caller[3]; # the subroutine that called TRACE_HERE my ($file, $line) = (caller(0))[1,2]; # the location of the TRACE_HERE my $trace = *{"$callpkg\::TRACE"}; shift @DB::args if @DB::args && "$DB::args[0]" eq "$params"; $trace->($params, "In $sub(".join(",", @DB::args).") - line $line of $file"); } ################################################# # Exporting ################################################# sub _import { my $pkg = shift; my (@packages) = shift; my ($target, $arg, $params) = @_; $target = '' unless defined $target; if ($params->{Deep}) { # extend the package list push @packages, _deep_import_packages($params->{Everywhere}); } if ($params->{AutoImport}) { # override the default require() to catch new modules being loaded _install_require($pkg, $params, $target, $arg) } # lookup: valid target > TRACE sub. These are also closures around '$arg' my %import_targets = ( 'print' => sub {_log_to_fh($arg, _log_normal(@_))}, 'print-verbose' => sub {_log_to_fh($arg, _log_verbose(@_))}, 'print-debug' => sub {_log_to_fh($arg, _log_debug(@_))}, 'warn' => sub {warn _log_normal(@_)}, 'warn-verbose' => sub {warn _log_verbose(@_)}, 'warn-debug' => sub {warn _log_debug(@_)}, 'buffer' => sub {$$arg .= _log_normal(@_)}, 'buffer-verbose' => sub {$$arg .= _log_verbose(@_)}, 'buffer-debug' => sub {$$arg .= _log_debug(@_)}, 'file' => sub {_log_to_file($arg, _log_normal(@_))}, 'file-verbose' => sub {_log_to_file($arg, _log_verbose(@_))}, 'file-debug' => sub {_log_to_file($arg, _log_debug(@_))}, 'log' => sub {_log_to_file($arg, _log_debug(@_))}, 'syslog' => sub {_log_to_syslog($arg, _log_normal(@_))}, 'syslog-verbose' => sub {_log_to_syslog($arg, _log_verbose(@_))}, 'syslog-debug' => sub {_log_to_syslog($arg, _log_debug(@_))}, 'custom' => $arg, ); my $suffix = ''; $params->{Verbose} = 0 unless defined $params->{Verbose}; if ($params->{Verbose} == 1) { $suffix = '-verbose'; } elsif ($params->{Verbose} == 2) { $suffix = '-debug'; } $target = $import_targets{$target.$suffix} ? $target.$suffix : $target; _debug("Initialising target: $target"); foreach my $export_to (@packages) { # Check whether to export functions to the package my $match = defined $params->{Match} ? $params->{Match} : '.'; next unless $export_to =~ /$match/; my %exclude; if (my $excl = $params->{Exclude}) { %exclude = map {$_ => 1} ref $excl eq 'ARRAY' ? @$excl : $excl; } $exclude{+__PACKAGE__} = 1; # exclude ourselves next if $exclude{$export_to}; _debug("Exporting target:$target to $export_to"); # set up the TRACE/DUMP functions my ($trace, $dump); if ($target && $import_targets{$target}) { $trace = _trace_maker($export_to, $params, $import_targets{$target}); $dump = _dump_maker($export_to, $params, $trace); } else { # Just export stub functions $trace = $dump = sub {}; carp "$pkg imported with unknown target $target" if $target; } # Now export ... __replace_subroutine($export_to, 'TRACE', $trace); __replace_subroutine($export_to, 'DUMP', $dump); __replace_subroutine($export_to, 'TRACEF', \&TRACEF); __replace_subroutine($export_to, 'TRACE_HERE', \&TRACE_HERE); if ($params->{AllSubs}) { # wrap all functions in package with calls to TRACE _debug("wrapping all functions in $export_to"); _wrap_functions($export_to, $trace); } } } sub __replace_subroutine { my ($package, $sub, $coderef) = @_; if (defined \&{"${package}::$sub"}) { # quietly remove existing stub function # This avoids unsightly "subroutine foo redefined" warnings # 'no warnings "redefine"' doesn't work pre perl 5.6 eval "undef \$${package}::{'$sub'}"; } *{"${package}::$sub"} = $coderef; } sub _trace_maker { my ($package, $params, $trace_sub) = @_; my $trace_level = $params->{Level}; return sub { local $@; # in-case TRACE is called from &DESTROY my $rv; eval { my $level = shift->{Level} if ($_[0] && ref $_[0] eq 'HASH'); return unless _evaluate_level($package, $trace_level, $level); $rv = 1 && $trace_sub->(@_); }; if ($@) { warn __PACKAGE__ . " : $@"; } return $rv; } } sub _dump_maker { my ($package, $params, $trace_sub) = @_; my $trace_level = $params->{Level}; return sub { # always return the dumped data regardless of level unless called in # void context my $context = wantarray(); local $@; # in-case DUMP is called from &DESTROY my $rv; eval { return $rv = _dump($params, @_) if defined $context; my $level = undef; if ($_[0] && ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' && defined $_[0]{Level}) { $level = shift->{Level}; } return unless _evaluate_level($package, $trace_level, $level); my $dumped = _dump($params, @_); $rv = 1 && $trace_sub->($dumped); }; if ($@) { warn __PACKAGE__ . " : $@"; } return $rv; } }; # returns a list of packages to export trace functions to sub _deep_import_packages { my $all_packages = shift; # Build the list of packages my @packages; foreach my $module (@{_list_all_packages()}) { next if $module eq __PACKAGE__; next unless $all_packages || defined (&{"$module\::TRACE"}); push @packages, $module; } return @packages; } my %_autowrap; sub _wrap_functions { my ($package, $trace) = @_; return if $_autowrap{$package}; $_autowrap{$package} = {} unless defined $_autowrap{$package}; my $symbols = \%{$package . '::'}; # wrap coderefs in the caller's symbol table foreach my $typeglob (keys %$symbols) { # skip TRACE/DUMP and other potential deep recursions next if $typeglob =~ /^(?:TRACE(?:F|_HERE)?|DUMP|AUTOLOAD)$/; # only wrap code references my $sub = *{$symbols->{$typeglob}}{CODE}; next unless (defined $sub and defined &$sub); # skip if sub is already wrapped next if $_autowrap{$package}{$typeglob}++; # define wrapped subroutine body my $sub_body = <<'WRAPPED'; my ($name) = "${package}::$typeglob"; my ($callpkg, $file, $line) = caller(1); my $arg = $_[0] && ref($_[0]) ? ref($_[0]) . ', ...' : ""; $trace->( "${name}( $arg )" ); goto &$sub WRAPPED # wrap subroutine, preserving prototypes my $wrapped_sub; if(defined (my $proto = prototype($sub))) { $wrapped_sub = eval "sub ($proto) { $sub_body }"; } else { $wrapped_sub = eval "sub { $sub_body }"; } __replace_subroutine($package, $typeglob, $wrapped_sub); } } # return a list of all defined packages in the symbol table # we could use %INC, but we'd miss packages that are defined in other modules sub _list_all_packages { my ($package) = @_; $package = '' unless defined $package; my @packages; # this is a recursive look in the symbol table: # %main:: # CGI:: # Cookie:: # Data:: # Dumper:: # ... my %symbols = %{$package . "::"}; foreach my $module (keys %symbols) { next unless $module =~ s/::$//; # ignore 'main' (deep recursion) and all invalid package names next if !$package && ($module eq 'main' || $module !~ /^[a-zA-Z_]\w*$/); my $prefix = $package ? $package . '::' : ''; # Add this module push @packages, $prefix . $module; # and recurse to sub-packages push @packages, @{_list_all_packages($prefix . $module)}; } return \@packages; } # Override the built-in require() # This is tricky because these are treated differently by perl: # 1. require CGI # 2. require "CGI" # We have no way of distinguishing the two, so we make a best guess # # This only works since perl 5.6.1 # # See 'perlsub' for more information about overriding built-ins sub _install_require { my ($pkg, $params, $target, @args) = @_; # CORE::require has prototype(;$), but we get "bareword foo not allowed" # errors if we use that. prototype(*) works though my $require = sub (*) { local $^W; my $what = shift; return 1 if $INC{$what}; _debug("require $what"); my $package; if ($what =~ /^v?[\d_.]+$/) { # take advantage of UNIVERSAL->VERSION($require) for a portable # version check local $_Log::Trace::PerlVersion::VERSION = $]; eval {_Log::Trace::PerlVersion->VERSION($what)}; if (my $error = $@) { $error =~ s/_Log::Trace::PerlVersion/Perl/; die $error; #rethrow exception } return 1; } elsif ($what =~ /(.*)\.pm$/) { # looks like a module name, get the main package from the filename # (perl 5.8 & ActivePerl 5.6.1) ($package = $1) =~ s{/}{::}g; } elsif ($what =~ /^[a-zA-Z_]\w*(?:::\w+)*$/i) { # package name: vanilla perl 5.6.1, 5.6.2 $package = $what; ($what = "$what.pm") =~ s{::}{/}g; } my $rv = CORE::require $what; if ($rv && $package) { # import Log::Trace into package return unless $params->{Everywhere} || defined (&{"$package\::TRACE"}); $pkg->_import($package, $target, @args, $params); } return $rv; }; # Override global require, silencing "... used only once" warnings *CORE::GLOBAL::require = *CORE::GLOBAL::require = $require; } # Returns caller info for exported functions sub __caller { # We need to look several frames back, so we keep going until we find # something from outside this package my @caller; for (1 .. 8) { my @c = caller($_); last unless defined $c[0]; @caller = @c; last unless $caller[0] eq __PACKAGE__ || $caller[3] =~ /^@{[__PACKAGE__]}\::/o; } # because we don't seem to get a call frame for main::__ANON__ $caller[0] = 'main' if ($caller[0] eq __PACKAGE__); $caller[3] =~ s/^@{[__PACKAGE__]}\::.*/main::__ANON__/; return @caller; } ################################################# # TRACE guts ################################################# sub _evaluate_level { my ($callpkg, $imported_level, $trace_level) = @_; return 1 if ! defined $imported_level; if (ref $imported_level eq 'CODE') { return $imported_level->($callpkg, $trace_level); } elsif (ref $imported_level eq 'ARRAY') { for (@$imported_level) { return 1 if (! defined($_) && ! defined($trace_level)); next unless defined($trace_level) && defined($_);; return 1 if $_ == $trace_level; } } elsif (!ref $imported_level) { return unless defined $trace_level; return $imported_level >= $trace_level; } } sub _log_normal { return join(",", @_)."\n"; } sub _log_verbose { my ($pack,$file,$line,$sub) = __caller(); return "$sub ($line) :: " . join( ", ", @_ ) . "\n"; } sub _log_debug { my ($pack,$file,$line,$sub) = __caller(); my $timestamp = _timestamp(); return "$file: $sub ($line) [$timestamp] " . join( ", ", @_ ) . "\n"; } sub _log_to_fh { my ($fh, @output) = @_; $fh = \*STDOUT unless $fh; print $fh @output; } sub _log_to_file { my $filename = shift; my ($pack,$file,$line,$sub) = __caller(); local *LOG_FILE; if (open (LOG_FILE, ">> $filename")) { if (eval {flock LOG_FILE, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB}) { print LOG_FILE @_; flock LOG_FILE, LOCK_UN; close LOG_FILE; } else { die "couldn't get lock on $filename : $!"; } } else { die "Cannot open $filename : $!"; } } sub _log_to_syslog { my ($priority) = shift || 'debug'; return unless eval {require Sys::Syslog}; Sys::Syslog::openlog(__PACKAGE__, 'pid'); my $rv = Sys::Syslog::syslog($priority, join ",", @_); Sys::Syslog::closelog(); return $rv; } sub _dump { my ($params, @args) = @_; my $msg = ref $args[0] ? '' : shift @args; $msg .= ": " if($msg && @args); my $type; eval { if ($params->{Dumper}) { $type = 'Data::Serializer'; require Data::Serializer; my $params = ref $params->{Dumper} ? $params->{Dumper} : { serializer => $params->{Dumper} }; my $serialiser = Data::Serializer->new(%$params); for (@args) { $msg .= $serialiser->raw_serialize($_) . "\n"; } } else { $type = 'Data::Dumper'; require Data::Dumper; # avoid 'used $var only once' warning local $Data::Dumper::Indent; local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys; local $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys; $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1; $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0; $msg .= Data::Dumper::Dumper(@args); } }; die "$type not available: $@" if $@; return $msg; } sub _gettimeofday() { return Time::HiRes::gettimeofday() if $INC{'Time/HiRes.pm'}; return (time(), undef); } #Provide localtime-style timestamp with microsecond resolution if Time::HiRes #is available sub _timestamp { my ($epoch, $usec) = _gettimeofday(); my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($epoch); $year+=1900; $mon+=1; my $stamp = sprintf("%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d",$year,$mon,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec); $stamp .= sprintf(".%.6d",$usec) if(defined $usec); return $stamp; } 1;