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NAME

Log::Report::Dispatcher::LogDispatch - send messages to Log::Dispatch back-end

INHERITANCE

Log::Report::Dispatcher::LogDispatch
  is a Log::Report::Dispatcher

SYNOPSIS

use Log::Dispatch::File;
dispatcher Log::Dispatch::File => 'logger', accept => 'NOTICE-'
  , filename => 'logfile', to_level => [ 'ALERT-' => 'err' ];

# disable default dispatcher
dispatcher close => 'logger';

DESCRIPTION

This dispatchers produces output to and Log::Dispatch back-end. (which will NOT be automatically installed for you).

The REASON for a message often uses names which are quite similar to the log-levels used by Log::Dispatch. However: they have a different approach. The REASON of Log::Report limits the responsibility of the programmer to indicate the cause of the message: whether it was able to handle a certain situation. The Log::Dispatch levels are there for the user's of the program. However: the programmer does not known anything about the application (in the general case). This is cause of much of the trickery in Perl programs.

The default translation table is list below. You can change the mapping using new(to_level). See example in SYNOPSIS.

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->close

Log::Report::Dispatcher::LogDispatch->new(TYPE, NAME, OPTIONS)

    The Log::Dispatch infrastructure has quite a large number of output TYPEs, each extending the Log::Dispatch::Output base-class. You do not create these objects yourself: Log::Report is doing it for you.

    The Log::Dispatch back-ends are very careful with validating their parameters, so you will need to restrict the options to what is supported for the specific back-end. See their respective manual-pages. The errors produced by the back-ends quite horrible and untranslated, sorry.

    Option       --Defined in     --Default
accept         Log::Report::Dispatcher  depend on mode
callbacks                       []
format_reason  Log::Report::Dispatcher  'LOWERCASE'
locale         Log::Report::Dispatcher  <system locale>
max_level                       undef
min_level                       debug
mode           Log::Report::Dispatcher  'NORMAL'
to_level                        []

    . accept => REASONS

    . callbacks => CODE|ARRAY-of-CODE

      See Log::Dispatch::Output.

    . format_reason => 'UPPERCASE'|'LOWERCASE'|'UCFIRST'|'IGNORE'|CODE

    . locale => LOCALE

    . max_level => LEVEL

      Like min_level.

    . min_level => LEVEL

      Restrict the messages which are passed through based on the LEVEL, so after the reason got translated into a Log::Dispatch compatible LEVEL. The default will use Log::Report restrictions only.

    . mode => 'NORMAL'|'VERBOSE'|'ASSERT'|'DEBUG'|0..3

    . to_level => ARRAY-of-PAIRS

Accessors

$obj->backend

    Returns the Log::Dispatch::Output object which is used for logging.

$obj->isDisabled

$obj->mode

$obj->name

$obj->needs

$obj->type

Logging

$obj->collectLocation

Log::Report::Dispatcher::LogDispatch->collectLocation

$obj->collectStack([MAXDEPTH])

$obj->log(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)

$obj->reasonToLevel(REASON)

    Returns a level which is understood by Log::Dispatch, based on a translation table. This can be changed with new(to_level).

$obj->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)

Log::Report::Dispatcher::LogDispatch->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)

$obj->translate(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)

DETAILS

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.10, built on October 15, 2007. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2007 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html