#!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