Module Lwt_log

module Lwt_log : sig..end

Logging facility

This module provides functions to deal with logging. It support:

logging to the syslog daemon
logging to a channel (stderr, stdout, ...)
logging to a file
logging to multiple destination at the same time

Types ¶

type level =  | Debug(* Debugging message. They can be automatically removed by the
syntax extension. *) | Info(* Informational message. Suitable to be displayed when the
program is in verbose mode. *) | Notice(* Same as Info, but is displayed by default. *) | Warning(* Something strange happend *) | Error(* An error message, which should not means the end of the
program. *) | Fatal(* A fatal error happened, in most cases the program will end
after a fatal error. *)

Type of log levels. A level determines the importance of a message

type logger

Type of a logger. A logger is responsible for dispatching messages and storing them somewhere.

Lwt provides loggers sending log messages to a file, syslog, ... but you can also create you own logger.

type section

Each logging message has a section. Sections can be used to structure your logs. For example you can choose different loggers according to the section.

Each section carries a level, and messages with a lower log level than than the section level will be dropped.

Section levels are initialised using the LWT_LOG environment variable, which must contains one or more rules of the form pattern -> level separated by ";". Where pattern is a string that may contain *.

For example, if LWT_LOG contains:

access -> warning;
        foo[*] -> error

then the level of the section "access" is Warning and the level of any section matching "foo[*]" is Error.

If the pattern is omited in a rule then the pattern "*" is used instead, so LWT_LOG may just contains "debug" for instance.

If LWT_LOG is not defined then the rule "* -> notice" is used instead.

val add_rule : string -> level -> unit

add_rule pattern level adds a rule for sections logging levels. The rule is added before all other rules. It takes effect immediatly and affect all sections for which the level has not been set explicitly with Lwt_log.Section.set_level. pattern may contains *. For example:

Lwt_log.add_rule "lwt*" Lwt_log.Info

val append_rule : string -> level -> unit

append_rule pattern level adds the given rule after all other rules. For example to set the default fallback rule:

Lwt_log.append_rule "*" Lwt_log.Info

Logging functions ¶

val log : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> level:level -> string -> unit Lwt.t

log ?section ?logger ~level message logs a message.

section defaults to Lwt_log.Section.main. If logger is not specified, then the default one is used instead (see Lwt_log.default).

If exn is provided, then its string representation (= Printexc.to_string exn) will be append to the message, and if possible the backtrace will also be logged.

location contains the location of the logging directive, it is of the form (file_name, line, column).

val log_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  level:level ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

log_f is the same as log except that it takes a format string

The following functions are the same as Lwt_log.log except that their name determines which level is used.

For example info msg is the same as log ~level:Info msg.

val debug : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val debug_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

val info : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val info_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

val notice : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val notice_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

val warning : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val warning_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

val error : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val error_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

val fatal : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger -> string -> unit Lwt.t

val fatal_f : 
  ?exn:exn ->
  ?section:section ->
  ?location:string * int * int ->
  ?logger:logger ->
  ('a, unit, string, unit Lwt.t) Pervasives.format4 -> 'a

module Section : sig..end

Sections

Log templates ¶

type template = string

A template is for generating log messages.

It is a string which may contains variables of the form $(var), where var is one of:

date which will be replaced with the current date
milliseconds which will be replaced by the fractionnal part of the current unix time
name which will be replaced by the program name
pid which will be replaced by the pid of the program
message which will be replaced by the message emited
level which will be replaced by a string representation of the level
section which will be replaced by the name of the message's section
loc-file which will be replaced by the file name of the calling logging function
loc-line which will be replaced by the line number of the calling logging function
loc-column which will be replaced by the column number of the calling logging function

For example:* "$(name): $(message)"

"$(date) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(message)"
"$(date).$(milliseconds) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(message)"
"$(date): $(loc-file): $(loc-line): $(loc-column): $(message)"

val render : 
  buffer:Buffer.t ->
  template:template ->
  section:section ->
  level:level -> message:string -> unit

render ~buffer ~template ~section ~level ~message instantiate all variables of template, and store the result in buffer. The location is obtained from threads local storage.

val location_key : (string * int * int) Lwt.key

The key for storing current location.

Loggers ¶

exception Logger_closed

Exception raised when trying to use a closed logger

val make : 
  output:(section -> level -> string list -> unit Lwt.t) ->
  close:(unit -> unit Lwt.t) -> logger

make ~output ~close creates a new logger.

output : is used to write logs. It is a function which receive a section, a level and a list lines that must be logged together.

close : is used to close the logger.

val close : logger -> unit Lwt.t

Close the given logger

val default : logger Pervasives.ref

The default logger. It is used as default when no one is specified. Initially, it sends messages to the standard output for error messages.

val broadcast : logger list -> logger

broadcast loggers is a logger which send messages to all the given loggers.

Note: closing a broadcast logger does not close its components.

val dispatch : (section -> level -> logger) -> logger

dispatch f is a logger which dispatch logging instructions to different logger according to their level and/or section.

Here is an example:

let access_logger = Lwt_log.file "access.log"
        and error_logger = Lwt_log.file "error.log" in

        Lwt_log.dispatch
          (fun section level ->
            match Lwt_log.Section.name section, level with
              | "access", _ -> access_logger
              | _, Lwt_log.Error -> error_logger)

Predefined loggers ¶

val null : logger

Logger which drops everything

type syslog_facility = 
  [ `Auth
  | `Authpriv
  | `Console
  | `Cron
  | `Daemon
  | `FTP
  | `Kernel
  | `LPR
  | `Local0
  | `Local1
  | `Local2
  | `Local3
  | `Local4
  | `Local5
  | `Local6
  | `Local7
  | `Mail
  | `NTP
  | `News
  | `Security
  | `Syslog
  | `UUCP
  | `User ]

Syslog facility. Look at the SYSLOG(3) man page for a description of syslog facilities

val syslog : 
  ?template:template ->
  ?paths:string list ->
  facility:syslog_facility -> unit -> logger

syslog ?template ?paths ~facility () creates an logger which send message to the system logger.

template : defaults to "$(date) $(name)[$(pid)]: $(section): $(message)"

paths : is a list of path to try for the syslogd socket. It default to ["/dev/log"; "/var/run/log"].

val file : 
  ?template:template ->
  ?mode:[ `Append | `Truncate ] ->
  ?perm:Unix.file_perm ->
  file_name:string -> unit -> logger Lwt.t

desf_file ?template ?mode ?perm ~file_name () creates an logger which will write messages to file_name.

if mode = `Truncate then the file is truncated and previous contents will be lost.

if mode = `Append, new messages will be appended at the end of the file

template : defaults to "$(date): $(section): $(message)"

mode : defaults to `Append

val channel : 
  ?template:template ->
  close_mode:[ `Close | `Keep ] ->
  channel:Lwt_io.output_channel -> unit -> logger

channel ?template ~close_mode ~channel () creates a logger from a channel.

If close_mode = `Close then channel is closed when the logger is closed, otherwise it is left open.

template : defaults to "$(name): $(section): $(message)"