#!perl5
use strict;
package Log::ErrLogger;
=head1 NAME
Log::ErrLogger - Log errors and error-like events
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Log::ErrLogger;
# Send e-mail for ERROR or worse
my $mail_logger = new Log::ErrLogger::Mail(
SENSITIVITY => Log::ErrLogger::ERROR,
HEADERS => { To => "who@where.com",
Subject => "Errors occurred while running $0" });
# Log INFORMATIONAL or worse to a file
my $file_logger = new Log::ErrLogger::File(
FILE => "/home/who/what.err",
SENSITIVITY => Log::ErrLogger::INFORMATIONAL );
# Print a nice HTML error message
my $sub_logger = new Log::ErrLogger::Sub (
SENSITIVITY => FATAL,
SUB => sub { print STDOUT "
Oops!Please try again later.\n";
exit(0); } );
# Capture all output to STDERR as an UNEXPECTED error
my $stderr_logger = Log::ErrLogger::tie( Log::ErrLogger::UNEXPECTED );
# But don't actually print to STDERR
$stderr_logger->close;
# Log a warning
log_error( WARNING, "Danger, %s!", "Will Robinson" );
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Log::ErrLogger provides a means of logging errors and error-like events (such
as warnings and unexpected situations) when printing to STDERR just will not do.
Error-like events are classified by a severity (see L below).
Programs instantiate error logging objects which can respond differently to
events. The objects have a sensitivity -- they will respond to any event at
least as severe as their sensitivity, and will ignore any events that are less
severe.
This module instantiates new __DIE__ and __WARN__ handlers that call
log_error( FATAL, die-message) and log_error( WARNING, warn-message), respectively.
=head1 HISTORY
$Id: ErrLogger.pm,v 1.6 1999/09/23 21:37:24 dcw Exp $
$Log: ErrLogger.pm,v $
Revision 1.6 1999/09/23 21:37:24 dcw
Incorporated Tim Ayers suggestions
Revision 1.5 1999/09/13 17:59:48 dcw
Copyright
Revision 1.4 1999/09/13 16:37:17 dcw
Documentation
Revision 1.3 1999/09/01 14:28:28 dcw
Backup file, export, autoflush
Revision 1.2 1999/08/31 17:18:39 dcw
Log::ErrLogger::Sub
Revision 1.1 1999/08/30 21:28:43 dcw
Initial
=head1 AUTHOR
David C. Worenklein
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1999 Greenwich Capital Markets
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 ERROR SEVERITIES
The predefined severities are
=over 4
=item DEBUGGING
=item INFORMATIONAL
=item UNEXPECTED
=item WARNING
=item ERROR
=item FATAL
=back
They have numerical values from 1 to 6.
=cut
use vars qw{@Errors};
BEGIN {
@Errors = qw{
ALL
DEBUGGING
INFORMATIONAL
UNEXPECTED
WARNING
ERROR
FATAL
NONE
};
}
#################################
# Typical object-oriented stuff #
#################################
use Exporter;
use vars qw{ @ISA @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION };
@ISA = qw{ Exporter };
@EXPORT_OK = (@Errors, "log_error", "tie", "LogError", "Tie");
%EXPORT_TAGS = (ErrorLevels => [@Errors]);
($VERSION) = ( qw$Revision: 1.6 $ )[1];
use IO::Handle;
##############
# Prototypes #
##############
sub log_error( $$;@ );
sub tie( ;$ );
sub new( $;% );
# Prototypes don't do much for methods, but they make the code more readable.
sub sensitivity( $ );
sub set_sensitivity( $$ );
sub file_handle( $ );
sub set_file_handle( $$ );
sub log( $$$ );
sub close( $ );
###############################
# Set up the error severities #
###############################
for(my $i=0; $i $i ";
}
###########################
# Commandeer DIE and WARN #
###########################
$SIG{__DIE__} = sub { if (defined($^S)) { Log::ErrLogger::log_error( &Log::ErrLogger::FATAL, "%s", @_ ); } else { die @_; } };
$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { if (defined($^S)) { Log::ErrLogger::log_error( &Log::ErrLogger::WARNING, "%s", @_ ); } else { warn @_; } };
##########################################
# Here are the logging methods specified #
##########################################
my @LogMethods;
=head1 NON-METHOD SUBROUTINES
=over 4
=item log_error( SEVERITY, FORMAT [,LIST] )
Log an error of the specified severity. The text of the message is the output of
sprintf FORMAT, ARGS. A carriage-return (\n) will be appended if one is not
supplied.
=cut
sub log_error( $$;@ ) {
my ($severity, $format, @args) = @_;
my $message = sprintf $format, @args;
# Add \n if needed
$message .= "\n" unless substr($message, -1) eq "\n";
my $fatal;
foreach my $logger (@LogMethods) {
if ($logger->sensitivity <= $severity) {
# An error logger can attempt to die
eval { $logger->log( $severity, $message ) };
$fatal ||= $@;
}
}
# Did we hit a dieing error logger?
die $fatal if $fatal;
}
*LogError = \&log_error;
###############################################################################
=item my $stderr_logger = tie( [SEVERITY] );
Tie the STDERR handle to the Log::ErrLogger module, so that any output to
STDERR will call log_error( $severity, output ).
If $severity is not specified, it will default to INFORMATIONAL.
=cut
my $stderr_handler;
sub tie( ;$ ) {
my ($severity) = @_;
$severity = &INFORMATIONAL unless defined($severity);
my $handler = new Log::ErrLogger SENSITIVITY => $severity;
# Copy off what STDERR was
open(OLD_STDERR, ">&STDERR");
$handler->set_file_handle(*OLD_STDERR);
$stderr_handler = tie *STDERR, ref($handler), $severity;
return $handler;
}
*Tie = \&tie;
sub TIEHANDLE( $ ) {
my ($class, $severity) = @_;
return bless \$severity, $class;
}
sub PRINT( $$ ) {
my ($self, $message) = @_;
Log::ErrLogger::log_error( $$self, "%s", $message );
}
sub PRINTF( $$;@ ) {
my ($self, $format, @args) = @_;
Log::ErrLogger::log_error( $$self, $format, @args );
}
###############################################################################
=back
=head1 METHODS
=over 4
=item my $sensitivity = $logger->sensitivity;
Returns the sensitivty of an error logger object. Objects respond to
events that are at least as severe as their sensitivity. There are
two special sensitivities. Objects with a sensitivity of NONE do not
respond to any events. Objects with a sensitivity of ALL respond
to all events.
=cut
sub sensitivity( $ ) {
my ($self) = @_;
return $self->{SENSITIVITY};
}
###############################################################################
=item my $old_sensitivity = $logger->sensitivity( SENSITIVITY );
Sets the sensitivty of an error logger object. Objects respond to events
that are at least as severe as their sensitivity.
Returns what the sensitivity of the object used to be.
=cut
sub set_sensitivity( $$ ) {
my ($self, $sensitivity) = @_;
my $old_sensitivity = $self->{SENSITIVITY};
$self->{SENSITIVITY} = $sensitivity;
return $old_sensitivity;
}
###############################################################################
=item my $fh = $logger->file_handle;
Returns the IO::Handle associated with the error logger object. Not all
error loggers will have a file handle, but most will.
=cut
sub file_handle( $ ) {
my ($self) = @_;
return $self->{FILEHANDLE};
}
###############################################################################
=item $logger->set_file_handle( HANDLE );
Associates the error logger object with the given (opened) IO::Handle, and
closes the old file handle that used to be associated with the object (if
there was one.)
The handle is set to autoflush, since buffering is usually a bad idea on
error loggers.
=cut
sub set_file_handle( $$ ) {
my ($self, $handle) = @_;
if (defined($self->file_handle)) {
$self->file_handle->close;
}
$self->{FILEHANDLE} = $handle;
$self->{FILEHANDLE}->autoflush(1);
}
###############################################################################
=item $logger->close;
Decommission the error logging object. L will no longer invoke
this object.
Note that this does NOT close the associated file handle. However, if the
error logging object has the only reference to the file handle, and the
program does not have any references to the error logging object, the handle
will have no references left and will be destroyed.
=cut
sub close( $ ) {
my ($self) = @_;
@LogMethods = grep { $_ != $self } @LogMethods;
}
###############################################################################
=item $logger->log( SEVERITY, MESSAGE );
This is the method called by L, above. It prints