casa::LogSink Class Reference
[Logging]

#include <LogSink.h>

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Detailed Description

Distribute LogMessages to their destination(s).

Intended use:

Part of API

Review Status

Reviewed By:
wbrouw
Date Reviewed:
1996/08/21
Test programs:
tLogging
Demo programs:
dLogging

Prerequisite

Etymology

Log as in "Log Book." Sink from its common usage ("source/sink") as a thing which can accept some substance or energy.

Synopsis

The LogSink class supplies the destination for LogMessage s. There are two destinations available through the LogSink

  1. A global destination, which is shared by all LogSinks. The global destination will typically be a GUI window or standard output.
  2. A local destination which is intended to log changes to particular dataset(s). The local destination will typically be an AIPS++ Table , but there is also a local sink for temporary storage in memory.
Normally the post() member function will be called which sends the message to both the global and local destinations, however one or the other may be chosen via LogSink::postGlobally() and postLocally() member functions.

The global sink will normally be set by system library code (it defaults to using cerr. The type of local sink is defined at construction time. Presently you can choose one of:

  1. a NullLogSink which merely discards the logging messages.
  2. a StreamLogSink which sends the log messages to an ostream (typically cerr)
  3. a TableLogSink which sends the messages to an AIPS++ Table .

Every LogSink has an attached LogFilterInterface which is used to reject or pass messages. The local and global sinks have their own filters, so they can pass different message priorities (e.g., global DEBUGGING and local NORMAL). Generally applications code shouldn't change the global filter.

Example

    LogMessage logMessage(.\..);
    LogSink logger(LogMessage::NORMAL, "logtable");   // log locally to a 'logtable'
    logMessage.message("this is a message").line(__LINE__);
    logger.post(logMessage);                          // local and global
More complete examples are in (see Logging.h (file=Logging.h)) .

Advanced topics

All possible sinks are derived from an abstract base class: LogSinkInterface . If you want to allow for logging to a different type of sink (i.e. different from a stream or Table) , you first need to derive a new class from LogSinkInterface, and then add a new constructor to LogSink.

LogSink itself contains a reference to the actual object that disposes of the messages. Several LogSink's can share the same actual sink via the copy constructor or assignment operator.

    LogSink logger1(LogMessage::NORMAL, "logtable");
    LogSink logger2(logger1);  // logger2 references logger1
    logger2.post(message);     // ends up in "logtable"
You can even have different LogFilterInterface's attached to the different LogSinks.

Motivation

Logging changes to data and informing users what the software is doing in detail.

To Do

Definition at line 138 of file LogSink.h.
void postThenThrow (const LogMessage &message)
 Post message and then throw an AipsError exception containing message.toString().
static void postGloballyThenThrow (const LogMessage &message)

Public Member Functions

 LogSink (const LogFilterInterface &filter, const CountedPtr< LogSinkInterface > &)
 Log to the given sink.
 LogSink (const LogFilterInterface &filter, const String &fileName, Int n=0)
 Temporary to avoid problem that the bool constructor is taken if a char* is passed.
 LogSink (const LogFilterInterface &filter, const Char *fileName, Int n=0)
 LogSink (LogMessage::Priority, const String &fileName, Int n=0)
 LogSink (LogMessage::Priority, const Char *fileName, Int n=0)
 ~LogSink ()
Bool post (const LogMessage &message)
 Send message to both the local and global sink.
virtual Bool postLocally (const LogMessage &message)
 Send message to the local sink only.
virtual uInt nelements () const
 Get number of messages in local sink.
virtual void writeLocally (Double time, const String &message, const String &priority, const String &location, const String &objectID)
 Write a message (usually from another logsink) into the local one.
virtual void clearLocally ()
 Clear the local sink (i.e.
virtual void flush (Bool global=True)
 Write any pending output (by default also the global sink).
String id () const
 Returns the id of the LogSink in use.
 LogSink (LogMessage::Priority filter=LogMessage::NORMAL, Bool nullSink=True)
 Create a null local sink that throws all messages away or create a memory local sink that holds the messages in memory.
 LogSink (const LogFilterInterface &filter, Bool nullSink=True)
 LogSink (LogMessage::Priority filter, ostream *os)
 Log to an ostream.
 LogSink (const LogFilterInterface &filter, ostream *os)
 LogSink (const LogSink &other)
 Make a referencing copy of other.
LogSinkoperator= (const LogSink &other)
virtual Double getTime (uInt i) const
 Get given part of the i-th message from the local sink.
virtual String getPriority (uInt i) const
virtual String getMessage (uInt i) const
virtual String getLocation (uInt i) const
virtual String getObjectID (uInt i) const
virtual const LogFilterInterfacefilter () const
 Get or set the filter of this particular LogSink.
virtual LogSinkInterfacefilter (const LogFilterInterface &filter)
const LogSinkInterfacelocalSink () const
 Change the sink that this LogSink actually uses.
LogSinkInterfacelocalSink ()
LogSinklocalSink (LogSinkInterface *&fromNew)

Static Public Member Functions

static Bool postGlobally (const LogMessage &message)
 Send message to the global sink only.
static String localId ()
 Returns the id for this class.
static LogSinkInterfaceglobalSink ()
 Get/set the global sink or check if the global sink is null.
static void globalSink (LogSinkInterface *&fromNew)
static Bool nullGlobalSink ()

Private Attributes

CountedPtr< LogSinkInterfacelocal_sink_p
CountedPtr< LogSinkInterfacelocal_ref_to_global_p
 The following is a reference to the global sink.

Static Private Attributes

static CountedPtr< LogSinkInterface > * global_sink_p


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( LogMessage::Priority  filter = LogMessage::NORMAL,
Bool  nullSink = True 
) [explicit]

Create a null local sink that throws all messages away or create a memory local sink that holds the messages in memory.

If a filter isn't defined, default to NORMAL.

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogFilterInterface filter,
Bool  nullSink = True 
) [explicit]

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( LogMessage::Priority  filter,
ostream *  os 
)

Log to an ostream.

It is the responsiblity of the caller to ensure that os will last as long as the LogSinks that use it. Normally you would use &cerr as the argument.

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogFilterInterface filter,
ostream *  os 
)

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogFilterInterface filter,
const CountedPtr< LogSinkInterface > &   
)

Log to the given sink.

It is primarily intended to log to a TableLogSink .

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogSink other  ) 

Make a referencing copy of other.

That is, if you post a message to the new object, it behaves as if you had posted it to the old one (so long as their filters are the same).

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogFilterInterface filter,
const String fileName,
Int  n = 0 
)

Temporary to avoid problem that the bool constructor is taken if a char* is passed.

They are not implemented, so compiler should give warning. The 3rd argument is added to make it different from current version which is still in the system library.

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( const LogFilterInterface filter,
const Char fileName,
Int  n = 0 
)

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( LogMessage::Priority  ,
const String fileName,
Int  n = 0 
)

casa::LogSink::LogSink ( LogMessage::Priority  ,
const Char fileName,
Int  n = 0 
)

casa::LogSink::~LogSink (  ) 


Member Function Documentation

LogSink& casa::LogSink::operator= ( const LogSink other  ) 

Bool casa::LogSink::post ( const LogMessage message  ) 

Send message to both the local and global sink.

Return True if it passes either of them.

static Bool casa::LogSink::postGlobally ( const LogMessage message  )  [static]

Send message to the global sink only.

Returns True if it passes the filter.

virtual Bool casa::LogSink::postLocally ( const LogMessage message  )  [virtual]

Send message to the local sink only.

Returns True if it passes the filter.

Implements casa::LogSinkInterface.

void casa::LogSink::postThenThrow ( const LogMessage message  ) 

Post message and then throw an AipsError exception containing message.toString().

It is always posted as a SEVERE priority message, no matter what message.priority() says.

static void casa::LogSink::postGloballyThenThrow ( const LogMessage message  )  [static]

virtual uInt casa::LogSink::nelements (  )  const [virtual]

Get number of messages in local sink.

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

virtual Double casa::LogSink::getTime ( uInt  i  )  const [virtual]

Get given part of the i-th message from the local sink.

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

Referenced by casa::LogHolderIterEntry::time().

virtual String casa::LogSink::getPriority ( uInt  i  )  const [virtual]

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

Referenced by casa::LogHolderIterEntry::priority().

virtual String casa::LogSink::getMessage ( uInt  i  )  const [virtual]

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

Referenced by casa::LogHolderIterEntry::message().

virtual String casa::LogSink::getLocation ( uInt  i  )  const [virtual]

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

Referenced by casa::LogHolderIterEntry::location().

virtual String casa::LogSink::getObjectID ( uInt  i  )  const [virtual]

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

Referenced by casa::LogHolderIterEntry::objectID().

virtual void casa::LogSink::writeLocally ( Double  time,
const String message,
const String priority,
const String location,
const String objectID 
) [virtual]

Write a message (usually from another logsink) into the local one.

The default implementation does nothing.

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

virtual void casa::LogSink::clearLocally (  )  [virtual]

Clear the local sink (i.e.

remove all messages from it).

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

virtual const LogFilterInterface& casa::LogSink::filter (  )  const [virtual]

Get or set the filter of this particular LogSink.

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

virtual LogSinkInterface& casa::LogSink::filter ( const LogFilterInterface filter  )  [virtual]

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

const LogSinkInterface& casa::LogSink::localSink (  )  const

Change the sink that this LogSink actually uses.

Referenced by casa::LogIO::localSink().

LogSinkInterface& casa::LogSink::localSink (  ) 

LogSink& casa::LogSink::localSink ( LogSinkInterface *&  fromNew  ) 

static LogSinkInterface& casa::LogSink::globalSink (  )  [static]

Get/set the global sink or check if the global sink is null.

The global sink defaults to using cerr. Generally applications code shouldn't change the global sink.

static void casa::LogSink::globalSink ( LogSinkInterface *&  fromNew  )  [static]

static Bool casa::LogSink::nullGlobalSink (  )  [static]

virtual void casa::LogSink::flush ( Bool  global = True  )  [virtual]

Write any pending output (by default also the global sink).

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

static String casa::LogSink::localId (  )  [static]

Returns the id for this class.

\..

Reimplemented from casa::LogSinkInterface.

String casa::LogSink::id (  )  const [virtual]

Returns the id of the LogSink in use.

\..

Implements casa::LogSinkInterface.


Member Data Documentation

CountedPtr<LogSinkInterface> casa::LogSink::local_sink_p [private]

Definition at line 259 of file LogSink.h.

CountedPtr<LogSinkInterface>* casa::LogSink::global_sink_p [static, private]

Definition at line 260 of file LogSink.h.

CountedPtr<LogSinkInterface> casa::LogSink::local_ref_to_global_p [private]

The following is a reference to the global sink.

It is created to ensure that the global sink is not destroyed before the last local reference to it is destroyed. This can happen if you have a static LogSink (or LogIO).

Definition at line 266 of file LogSink.h.


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