Log::Dispatch::Dir - Log messages to separate files in a directory, with rotate options

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NAME

Log::Dispatch::Dir - Log messages to separate files in a directory, with rotate options

VERSION

version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    use Log::Dispatch::Dir;

    my $dir = Log::Dispatch::Dir->new(
        name => 'dir1',
        min_level => 'info',
        dirname => 'somedir.log',
        filename_pattern => '%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.%{pid}.html',
    );
    $dir->log( level => 'info', message => 'your comment\n" );

    # limit total size
    my $dir = Log::Dispatch::Dir->new(
        # ...
        max_size => 10*1024*1024, # 10MB
    );

    # limit number of files
    my $dir = Log::Dispatch::Dir->new(
        # ...
        max_files => 1000,
    );

    # limit oldest file
    my $dir = Log::Dispatch::Dir->new(
        # ...
        max_age => 10*24*3600, # 10 days
    );

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a simple object for logging to directories under the Log::Dispatch::* system, and automatically rotating them according to different constraints. Each message will be logged to a separate file the directory.

Logging to separate files can be useful for example when dumping whole network responses (like HTTP::Response content).

METHODS

`new(%p)`

This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

name ($)
The name of the object (not the dirname!). Required.
min_level ($)
The minimum logging level this object will accept. See the Log::Dispatch documentation on Log Levels for more information. Required.
max_level ($)
The maximum logging level this obejct will accept. See the Log::Dispatch documentation on Log Levels for more information. This is not required. By default the maximum is the highest possible level (which means functionally that the object has no maximum).
dirname ($)
The directory to write to.
permissions ($)
If the directory does not already exist, the permissions that it should be created with. Optional. The argument passed must be a valid octal value, such as 0700 or the constants available from Fcntl, like S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXUSR.

See perlfunc/chmod for more on potential traps when passing octal values around. Most importantly, remember that if you pass a string that looks like an octal value, like this:
```
 my $mode = '0644';
```
Then the resulting directory will end up with permissions like this:
```
 --w----r-T
```
which is probably not what you want.
callbacks( \& or [ \&, \&, ... ] )
This parameter may be a single subroutine reference or an array reference of subroutine references. These callbacks will be called in the order they are given and passed a hash containing the following keys:
```
 ( message => $log_message, level => $log_level )
```
The callbacks are expected to modify the message and then return a single scalar containing that modified message. These callbacks will be called when either the log or log_to methods are called and will only be applied to a given message once.
filename_pattern ($)
Names to give to each file, expressed in pattern a la strftime()'s. Optional. Default is '%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.%{pid}'. Time is expressed in local time.

If file of the same name already exists, a suffix ".1", ".2", and so on will be appended.

Available pattern:

%Y - 4-digit year number, e.g. 2009
%y - 2-digit year number, e.g. 09 for year 2009
%m - 2-digit month, e.g. 04 for April
%d - 2-digit day of month, e.g. 28
%H - 2-digit hour, e.g. 01
%M - 2-digit minute, e.g. 57
%S - 2-digit second, e.g. 59
%z - the time zone as hour offset from GMT
%Z - the time zone or name or abbreviation
%{pid} - Process ID
%% - literal '%' character
filename_sub (\&)
A more generic mechanism for filename_pattern. If filename_sub is given, filename_pattern will be ignored. The code will be called with the same arguments as log_message() and is expected to return a filename. Will die if code returns undef.
max_size ($)
Maximum total size of files, in bytes. After the size is surpassed, oldest files (based on ctime) will be deleted. Optional. Default is undefined, which means unlimited.
max_files ($)
Maximum number of files. After this number is surpassed, oldest files (based on ctime) will be deleted. Optional. Default is undefined, which means unlimited.
max_age ($)
Maximum age of files (based on ctime), in seconds. After the age is surpassed, files older than this age will be deleted. Optional. Default is undefined, which means unlimited.
rotate_probability ($)
A number between 0 and 1 which specifies the probability that rotate() will be called after each log_message(). This is a balance between performance and rotate size accuracy. 1 means always rotate, 0 means never rotate. Optional. Default is 0.25.

log_message(message => $)

Sends a message to the appropriate output. Generally this shouldn't be called directly but should be called through the log() method (in Log::Dispatch::Output).

BUGS

Known bugs:

Currently only works and tested on Unix

Please report any other bugs or feature requests to bug-log-dispatch-dir at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Log::Dispatch::Dir

You can also look for information at:

AUTHOR

  Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Log::Dispatch::Dir - Log messages to separate files in a directory, with rotate options