dexter

A Logger that focuses on compatibility and flexible formats
0.2.0 released
luckyframework/dexter
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Dexter

A library for logging data and formatting it however you need

  • 99% compatible with built-in Crystal logger (see caveat).
  • Adds additional methods for logging data instead of strings
  • Custom formatters to log data any way you want

Included is a JsonLogFormatter, but you can create your own formatter to format and output the data however you want. For example, Lucky has a PrettyLogFormatter that formats data in a human readable format during development, and uses the JsonLogFormatter in production.

Installation

  1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

    dependencies:
      dexter:
        github: luckyframework/dexter
    
  2. Run shards install

Usage

require "dexter"

logger = Dexter::Logger.new(
  io: STDOUT,
  level: Logger::Severity::INFO,
  log_formatter: Dexter::Formatters::JsonLogFormatter.new
)

# These examples use 'info' but you can use 'debug', 'warn', and 'error' as well.
#
# Logs timestamp, severity and {foo: "bar"} as JSON
logger.info(foo: "bar")

# Compatible with built-in Crystal logger for logging string messages
#
# Logs timestamp, severity and {message: "My message"} as JSON
logger.info("My message")

# Or pass the severity in:
logger.log(severity: Logger::Severity::DEBUG, foo: "bar")

Compatibility Caveat

Dexter will work everywhere the built-in Crystal Logger works. The only caveat is that Dexter ignores the formatter used by Logger because Dexter uses its own formatter that is incompatible with Crystal's Logger.

So what does this mean? In practice, it is a non-issue. If you are using Dexter it is because you want the Dexter formatting, not the Crystal formatter.

For example, in this code the formatter will not be used, and Dexter will print a warning:

logger = Dexter::Logger.new(STDOUT)

# This will print a warning message and the formatter will not be used
#
# Usually people do this on accident or because the app was using the default
# Crystal Logger and is being upgraded to Dexter.
logger.formatter = ::Logger::Formatter.new do |severity, datetime, progname, message, io|
  "This will not ever run"
end

The fix is simple, use a Dexter formatter and set it with log_formatter= instead:

logger = Dexter::Logger.new(STDOUT)
# Use 'log_formatter=' as documented in the README
logger.log_formatter = Dexter::Formatters::JsonLogFormatter

Q: Why is 'formatter=' defined in Dexter if Dexter ignores it?

A For Dexter to be usable in libraries that accept a Crystal Logger, Dexter must have all the same methods as Logger.

Contributing

  1. Fork it (https://github.com/luckyframework/dexter/fork)
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

dexter:
  github: luckyframework/dexter
  version: ~> 0.2.0
License MIT
Crystal 0.34.0

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