Golang logging: Difference between revisions
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DebugLogger := log.New(ioutil.Discard, "DEBUG: ", logFmt) // redirects to /dev/null | DebugLogger := log.New(ioutil.Discard, "DEBUG: ", logFmt) // redirects to /dev/null | ||
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{{ example | |||
| reusable implementation | |||
| | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="go"> | |||
package main | |||
import "log" | |||
import "os" | |||
import "io/ioutil" | |||
var ( | |||
LogDebug *log.Logger | |||
LogInfo *log.Logger | |||
LogWarn *log.Logger | |||
LogError *log.Logger | |||
) | |||
func setupLog() { | |||
debug_writer := ioutil.Discard | |||
info_writer := ioutil.Discard | |||
for _, arg := range os.Args[1:] { | |||
switch arg { | |||
case "-v", "--verbose": | |||
info_writer = os.Stderr | |||
case "-vv", "--very-verbose": | |||
info_writer = os.Stderr | |||
debug_writer = os.Stderr | |||
} | |||
} | |||
logFmt := log.Ldate|log.Ltime|log.Llongfile | |||
LogDebug = log.New(debug_writer, "DEBUG: ", logFmt) | |||
LogInfo = log.New(info_writer, "INFO: ", logFmt) | |||
LogWarn = log.New(os.Stderr, "WARN: ", logFmt) | |||
LogError = log.New(os.Stderr, "ERROR: ", logFmt) | |||
} | |||
func main() { | |||
setupLog() | |||
LogWarn.Println("high memory usage") | |||
LogInfo.Println("application started") | |||
LogDebug.Println("preparing for error...") | |||
LogError.Println("an error was encountered") | |||
} | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
go build main.go # prints warn/error | |||
go build main.go -v # prints info/warn/error | |||
go build main.go -vv # prints debug/info/warn/error | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
}} | |||
</blockquote><!-- LogLevels --> | </blockquote><!-- LogLevels --> |
Revision as of 22:45, 18 June 2022
Logging is a standardized format of writing progress/debug info.
Documentation
log
https://pkg.go.dev/log logfmt flags https://pkg.go.dev/log#pkg-constants
Basics
Go creates a logger that logs to stderr by default.
If you like, you can modify it's logformat.
There are no log-levels by default.// customize default log's logformat log.SetFlags(log.Ldate|log.Ltime|log.Llongfile) // log methods similar to 'fmt.*' methods log.Println("application started") // log message log.Fatalln("application exiting") // os.Exit(1) after logged log.Panicln("application panicked") // panic() after logged
LogLevels
Go doesn't provide log-levels, but you can create separate loggers to implement this yourself.
You don't need to do this in every file, log-format flags indicating filepath will use the correct path where it is called from.import "os" import "io/ioutil" import "log" logFmt := log.Ldate|log.Ltime|log.Llongfile InfoLogger := log.New(os.Stderr, "INFO: ", logFmt) ErrorLogger := log.New(os.Stderr, "ERROR: ", logFmt) DebugLogger := log.New(ioutil.Discard, "DEBUG: ", logFmt) // redirects to /dev/null