Open murki opened 1 month ago
This is very much a blocking point for us.
We would need the ability to send all of our logcat {}
(same as Timber) logs to bitdrift, with the assurance that the strings aren't even evaluated by default / the lambdas don't run, because that can have a significant performance impact. So based on some tag and server side rule we'd want to conditionally evaluate.
The lambda approach is actually inlined syntactic sugar on 2 basic API building blocks: 1) "should I evaluate this log?" and 2) "here's my log"
Once that top level API is available, we would benefit even from a new API that doesn't take a string but an Okio Source instead (similar to Java InputStream), so that we could serialize some event classes directly to a json string stored in the ring buffer without creating temporary strings per log.
Although thinking about this more, this might not work because you require knowing the log size when allocating an entry in the ring buffer. so, that might be a bad idea, or might need an API that includes the size.
Some notes with regard to lambdas evaluation:
Logger.configure
call).Maybe we could come up with a solution where you can log either by using a lambda or by passing a string/fields directly to the SDK. This would allow deferred evaluation of logs when needed, while keeping things simpler for cases where you're fine with always evaluating the log and its fields.
Two potential improvements to the logging interface which currently accepts a
message: () -> String
lambda:inline
in the method but since we use interfaces in between that's currently not possible. We should at least provide an overload that just takes theString
directly for cases where the consumers know there won't be any string interpolation.