angular-logger

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Installing

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bower install angular-logger --save
npm install angular-logger --save

Manually

Getting Started

Applying Patterns

Prefix pattern

By default, the prefix is formatted like so (if sprintf.js is present):

datetime here::[context name here]>your logging input here

// if sprintf.js is missing, angular-logger defaults back to a fixed pattern that does include the used loglevel:
datetime here::context name here::loglevel used here>your logging input here 

However, you can change this as follows:

app.config(function (logEnhancerProvider) {
   logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%s - %s: ';
});
app.run(function($log) {
   $log.getInstance('app').info('Hello World');
});
// was:    Sunday 12:55:07 am::[app]>Hello World
// became: Sunday 12:55:07 am - app: Hello World

And if you add another prefix-placeholder %s, you get the log level as well:

logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%s - %s - %s: '; // Sunday 12:55:07 am - app - info: Hello World

You can also remove it completely, or have just the datetime stamp or just the context prefixed:

// by the power of sprintf!
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%s - %s: '; // both
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%s: '; // timestamp
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%1$s: '; // timestamp by index
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%2$s: '; // context by index
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%2$s - %1$s: '; // both, reversed
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%3$s: '; // logging level by index
logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%3$s - %2$s - %1$s: '; // loglevel, context and timestamp reversed

This works because angular-logger will use three arguments context, timestamp and loglevel for the prefix, which can be referenced by index.

Datetime stamp patterns

If you have included moment.js in your webapp, you can start using datetime stamp patterns with angular-logger. The default pattern is LLL, which translates to a localized string that matches the current user's Locale. You customize the pattern as follows:

app.config(function (logEnhancerProvider) {
   logEnhancerProvider.datetimePattern = 'dddd';
});
app.run(function($log) {
   $log.getInstance('app').info('Hello World');
});
// was:    Sunday 12:55:07 am::[app]>Hello World
// became: Sunday::[app]>Hello World

A pattern like dddd h:mm:ss a would translate to something like "Sunday 12:55:07 am". You can easily switch to a 24h format as well, using these patterns.

Logging patterns

If you have included sprintf.js in your webapp, you can start using patterns with angular-logger.

Traditional style with $log:

$log.error ("Error uploading document [" + filename + "], Error: '" + err.message + "'. Try again later.")
// Error uploading document [contract.pdf], Error: 'Service currently down'. Try again later. "{ ... }"

Modern style with angular-logger enhanced $log:

var logger = $log.getInstance("myapp.file-upload");
logger.error("Error uploading document [%s], Error: '%s'. Try again later.", filename, err.message)
// Sunday 12:13:06 pm::[myapp.file-upload]> Error uploading document [contract.pdf], Error: 'Service currently down'. Try again later.

You can even combine pattern input and normal input:

var logger = $log.getInstance('test');
logger.warn("This %s pattern %j", "is", "{ 'in': 'put' }", "but this is not!", ['this', 'is', ['handled'], 'by the browser'], { 'including': 'syntax highlighting', 'and': 'console interaction' });
// 17-5-2015 00:16:08::[test]>  This is pattern "{ 'in': 'put' }" but this is not! ["this", "is handled", "by the browser"] Object {including: "syntax highlighting", and: "console interaction"}

To log an Object, you now have three ways of doing it, but the combined solution shown above has best integration with the browser.

logger.warn("Do it yourself: " + JSON.stringify(obj)); // json string with stringify's limitations
logger.warn("Let sprintf handle it: %j", obj); // json string with sprintf's limitations
logger.warn("Let the browser handle it: ", obj); // interactive tree in the browser with syntax highlighting
logger.warn("Or combine all!: %s, %j", JSON.stringify(obj), obj, obj);

logger.info("What about %s?", function() { return "functions"; });
logger.info("What about delaying creating objects until %j?", function() { return {n:"needed"}; });

Managing logging priority

Using logging levels, we can manage output on several levels. Contexts can be named using dot '.' notation, where the names before dots are intepreted as groups or packages.

For example for a.b and a.c we can define a general log level for a and have a different log level for only a.c.

The following logging functions (left side) are available:

* maintained for backwards compatibility with $log.log

The level's order are as follows:

  1. TRACE: displays all levels, is the finest output and only recommended during debugging
  2. DEBUG: display all but the finest logs, only recommended during develop stages
  3. INFO :  Show info, warn and error messages
  4. WARN :  Show warn and error messages
  5. ERROR: Show only error messages.
  6. OFF  : Disable all logging, recommended for silencing noisy logging during debugging. *will* surpress errors logging.

Example:

// config log levels before the application wakes up
app.config(function (logEnhancerProvider) {
    logEnhancerProvider.prefixPattern = '%s::[%s]> ';
    logEnhancerProvider.logLevels = {
        'a.b.c': logEnhancerProvider.LEVEL.TRACE, // trace + debug + info + warn + error
        'a.b.d': logEnhancerProvider.LEVEL.ERROR, // error
        'a.b': logEnhancerProvider.LEVEL.DEBUG, // debug + info + warn + error
        'a': logEnhancerProvider.LEVEL.WARN, // warn + error
        '*': logEnhancerProvider.LEVEL.INFO // info + warn + error
    };
    // globally only INFO and more important are logged
    // for group 'a' default is WARN and ERROR
    // a.b.c and a.b.d override logging everything-with-TRACE and least-with-ERROR respectively
});

// modify log levels after the application started running
run(function ($log) {
    $log.logLevels['a.b.c'] = $log.LEVEL.ERROR;
    $log.logLevels['*'] = $log.LEVEL.OFF;
});