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Revision 1.45 by root, Sun Oct 2 00:42:04 2011 UTC vs.
Revision 1.53 by root, Tue Mar 27 16:21:11 2012 UTC

 Simple uses:
    use AnyEvent;
+   AE::log fatal => "no config found, cannot continue"; # never returns
+   AE::log alert => "the battery died";
+   AE::log crit  => "the battery temperature is too hot";
+   AE::log error => "division by zero attempted";
+   AE::log warn  => "couldn't delete the file";
+   AE::log note  => "wanted to create config, but config already exists";
+   AE::log info  => "file soandso successfully deleted";
+   AE::log debug => "the function returned 3";
    AE::log trace => "going to call function abc";
-   AE::log debug => "the function returned 3";
-   AE::log info  => "file soandso successfully deleted";
-   AE::log note  => "wanted to create config, but config was alraedy created";
-   AE::log warn  => "couldn't delete the file";
-   AE::log error => "failed to retrieve data";
-   AE::log crit  => "the battery temperature is too hot";
-   AE::log alert => "the battery died";
-   AE::log fatal => "no config found, cannot continue"; # never returns
 Log level overview:
    LVL NAME      SYSLOG   PERL  NOTE
     1  fatal     emerg    exit  system unusable, aborts program!
 attempt to be "the" logging solution or even "a" logging solution for
 AnyEvent - AnyEvent simply creates logging messages internally, and this
 module more or less exposes the mechanism, with some extra spiff to allow
 using it from other modules as well.
-Remember that the default verbosity level is C<0> (C<off>), so nothing
+Remember that the default verbosity level is C<4> (C<error>), so only
-will be logged, unless you set C<PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE> to a higher number
+errors and more important messages will be logged, unless you set
-before starting your program, or change the logging level at runtime with
+C<PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE> to a higher number before starting your program
-something like:
+(C<AE_VERBOSE=5> is recommended during development), or change the logging
+level at runtime with something like:
    use AnyEvent::Log;
    $AnyEvent::Log::FILTER->level ("info");
 The design goal behind this module was to keep it simple (and small),
 is the "official" name, the second one the "syslog" name (if it differs)
 and the third one the "perl" name, suggesting (only!) that you log C<die>
 messages at C<error> priority. The NOTE column tries to provide some
 rationale on how to chose a logging level.
-As a rough guideline, levels 1..3 are primarily meant for users of
+As a rough guideline, levels 1..3 are primarily meant for users of the
-the program (admins, staff), and are the only logged to STDERR by
+program (admins, staff), and are the only ones logged to STDERR by
 default. Levels 4..6 are meant for users and developers alike, while
 levels 7..9 are usually meant for developers.
-You can normally only log a single message at highest priority level
+You can normally only log a message once at highest priority level (C<1>,
-(C<1>, C<fatal>), because logging a fatal message will also quit the
+C<fatal>), because logging a fatal message will also quit the program - so
-program - so use it sparingly :)
+use it sparingly :)
+For example, a program that finds an unknown switch on the commandline
+might well use a fatal logging level to tell users about it - the "system"
+in this case would be the program, or module.
 Some methods also offer some extra levels, such as C<0>, C<off>, C<none>
-or C<all> - these are only valid in the methods they are documented for.
+or C<all> - these are only valid for the methods that documented them.
 =head1 LOGGING FUNCTIONS
-These functions allow you to log messages. They always use the caller's
+The following functions allow you to log messages. They always use the
-package as a "logging context". Also, the main logging function C<log> is
+caller's package as a "logging context". Also, the main logging function,
-callable as C<AnyEvent::log> or C<AE::log> when the C<AnyEvent> module is
+C<log>, is aliased to C<AnyEvent::log> and C<AE::log> when the C<AnyEvent>
-loaded.
+module is loaded.
 =over 4
 =cut
 Last not least, C<$msg> might be a code reference, in which case it is
 supposed to return the message. It will be called only then the message
 actually gets logged, which is useful if it is costly to create the
 message in the first place.
+This function takes care of saving and restoring C<$!> and C<$@>, so you
+don't have to.
 Whether the given message will be logged depends on the maximum log level
 and the caller's package. The return value can be used to ensure that
 messages or not "lost" - for example, when L<AnyEvent::Debug> detects a
 runtime error it tries to log it at C<die> level, but if that message is
             # log if log cb
             if ($ctx->[3]) {
                # logging target found
+               local ($!, $@);
                # now get raw message, unless we have it already
                unless ($now) {
                   $format = $format->() if ref $format;
                   $format = sprintf $format, @args if @args;
                   $format =~ s/\n$//;
 Replaces the formatting callback on the context (C<undef> restores the
 default formatter).
 The callback is passed the (possibly fractional) timestamp, the original
-logging context, the (numeric) logging level and the raw message string
+logging context (object, not title), the (numeric) logging level and
-and needs to return a formatted log message. In most cases this will be a
+the raw message string and needs to return a formatted log message. In
-string, but it could just as well be an array reference that just stores
+most cases this will be a string, but it could just as well be an array
-the values.
+reference that just stores the values.
-If, for some reason, you want to use C<caller> to find out more baout the
+If, for some reason, you want to use C<caller> to find out more about the
 logger then you should walk up the call stack until you are no longer
 inside the C<AnyEvent::Log> package.
 Example: format just the raw message, with numeric log level in angle
 brackets.
       "<$lvl>$msg\n"
    });
 Example: return an array reference with just the log values, and use
-C<PApp::SQL::sql_exec> to store the emssage in a database.
+C<PApp::SQL::sql_exec> to store the message in a database.
    $ctx->fmt_cb (sub { \@_ });
    $ctx->log_cb (sub {
       my ($msg) = @_;
 =item $ctx->log ($level, $msg[, @params])
 Same as C<AnyEvent::Log::log>, but uses the given context as log context.
+Example: log a message in the context of another package.
+   (AnyEvent::Log::ctx "Other::Package")->log (warn => "heely bo");
 =item $logger = $ctx->logger ($level[, \$enabled])
 Same as C<AnyEvent::Log::logger>, but uses the given context as log
 context.
 Attaches the named context as slave to the context.
 =item C<+>
-A line C<+> detaches all contexts, i.e. clears the slave list from the
+A lone C<+> detaches all contexts, i.e. clears the slave list from the
 context. Anonymous (C<%name>) contexts have no attached slaves by default,
 but package contexts have the parent context as slave by default.
 Example: log messages from My::Module to a file, do not send them to the
 default log collector.
    if (/\G(.+)/g) {
       die "PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG ($spec): parse error at '$1'\n";
    }
 }
-1;
 =head1 EXAMPLES
 This section shows some common configurations, both as code, and as
 C<PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG> string.
  Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
  http://home.schmorp.de/
 =cut
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