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LoggerC++

LoggerC++ (LoggerCpp) is a simple, elegant and efficient C++ logger library.

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The goals of LoggerC++ are:

to keep dependencies to a minimum (STL and shared_ptr)
to be portable
to minimize cpu utilisation when no log are outputed
to be thread-safe (output logs in same channel accross multiple threads)
to be well documented with Doxygen tags
to use a permissive MIT license, similar to BSD or Boost, for proprietary/commercial usage

Limitations:

Thread-safety is only for Log outputs. You shall not dynamically create and destroy Logger objects in multiple threads. Instead, build them all at startup in you main thread, before other thread startup. Then you are allowed to use them all in parallel.

Suported platforms:

Developements and tests are done under the following OSs :

Debian 7 (testing)
Ubuntu 12.10
Windows XP/7/8 And following IDEs/Compilers
GCC 4.7.x with a provided Makefile
Eclipse CDT under Linux, using the provided Makefile
Visual Studio Express 2008/2010/2012 for testing compatibility purpose

Dependencies:

a STL implementation with RTTI (even an old one, like the one provided with VC6 should work).
optionnaly: the C++ 11 std::shared_ptr or boost::shared_ptr (a minimal shared_ptr implementation is provided).

Installation

To use this C++ Logger, you need to include the sources files into your project codebase.

License

Distributed under the MIT License (MIT) (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Getting started

Principles

Add a small named Logger object to your code to output logs prefixed by the given name. A Logger is as small as a shared_ptr, typicaly 8 bytes. Use it as a member variable to your class, or as a free variable.
Build a Log with standard stream manipulations (like with std::cout) but in a thread-safe manner: the Log is outputed atomically at the end of the line.
Use one of the 6 Log Level, ranging from Debug to Critic in a standard fashion.
Set the Channel Level of the Logger to dynamicaly filter Log to be outputed
Multiple Logger objects with the same name will share the same underlying named Channel. Any of theses Logger can manipulate the Channel output Level.
Configure the availlable Output objects, for console, file or MSVC Debugger output.

First sample demonstrates how to create a Logger and print some logs:

int main ()
{
    // Configure the default severity Level of new Channel objects
    Log::Manager::setDefaultLevel(Log::Log::eNotice);

    // Setup the list of Config for the Output objects,
    Log::Config::Vector configList;
    Log::Config::addOutput(configList, "OutputConsole");
    Log::Config::addOutput(configList, "OutputFile");
    Log::Config::setOption(configList, "filename",          "log.txt");
    Log::Config::setOption(configList, "max_size",          "10000");
    // and configure the Log Manager (create the Output objects)
    Log::Manager::configure(configList);

    // Create a Logger object, using a "Main.Example" Channel
    Log::Logger logger("Main.Example");

    // Test outputs of various kind of variables, and some common stream manipulations.
    std::string     str("string");
    unsigned int    ui  = 123;
    double          dbl = -0.023f;
    logger.debug() << "Variables ; '" << str << "', '" << ui << "', '" << dbl << "'";
    logger.debug() << "Hexa = " << std::hex << 0x75af0 << " test";
    logger.debug() << "Deci = " << std::right << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(8) << 76035 << " test";

    // Test outputs of various severity Level
    logger.debug()  << "Debug.";
    logger.info()   << "Info.";
    logger.notice() << "Notice.";
    logger.warning()<< "Warning.";
    logger.error()  << "Error.";
    logger.critic() << "Critic.";

    // Modify the output Level of the underlying Channel, and test various severity Level again
    logger.setLevel(Log::Log::eWarning);
    logger.debug()  << "NO Debug.";     // NO more debug logs
    logger.info()   << "NO Info.";      // NO more info logs
    logger.notice() << "NO Notice.";    // NO more notice logs
    logger.warning()<< "Warning.";
    logger.error()  << "Error.";
    logger.critic() << "Critic.";

    // Reset Level of the "Main.example" channel by its name
    Log::Manager::get("Main.Example")->setLevel(Log::Log::eDebug);

How to contribute

GitHub website

The most efficient way to help and contribute to this wrapper project is to use the tools provided by GitHub:

please fill bug reports and feature requests here: https://github.com/SRombauts/LoggerCpp/issues
fork the repository, make some small changes and submit them with pull-request

Contact

You can also email me directly, I will answer any questions and requests.

Coding Style Guidelines

The source code use the CamelCase naming style variant where :

type names (class, struct, typedef, enums...) begins with a capital letter
files (.cpp/.h) are named like the class they contains
function and variable names begins with a lower case letter
member variables begins with a 'm', function arguments begins with a 'a', boolean with a 'b', pointers with a 'p'
each file, class, method and member variable is documented using Doxygen tags See also http://www.appinf.com/download/CppCodingStyleGuide.pdf for good guidelines