NAME

Log::Report::Dispatcher::File - send messages to a file or file-handle

INHERITANCE

 Log::Report::Dispatcher::File
   is a Log::Report::Dispatcher

SYNOPSIS

 dispatcher Log::Report::Dispatcher::File => 'stderr'
   , to => \*STDERR, accept => 'NOTICE-';

 # close a dispatcher
 dispatcher close => 'stderr';

 # let dispatcher open and close the file
 dispatcher FILE => 'mylog', to => '/var/log/mylog'
   , charset => 'utf-8';
 ...
 dispatcher close => 'mylog';  # will close file

 # open yourself, then also close yourself
 open OUT, ">:encoding('iso-8859-1')", '/var/log/mylog'
     or fault "...";
 dispatcher FILE => 'mylog', to => \*OUT;
 ...
 dispatcher close => 'mylog';  
 close OUT;

 # dispatch into a scalar
 my $output = '';
 open $outfile, '>', \$output;
 dispatcher FILE => 'into-scalar', to => \$outfile;
 ...
 dispatcher close => 'into-scalar';
 print $output;

DESCRIPTION

This basic file logger accepts an file-handle or filename as destination.

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->close

Only when initiated with a FILENAME, the file will be closed. In any other case, nothing will be done.

Log::Report::Dispatcher::File->new(TYPE, NAME, OPTIONS)

 Option       --Defined in     --Default
 accept         Log::Report::Dispatcher  depend on mode
 charset        Log::Report::Dispatcher  LOCALE
 format_reason  Log::Report::Dispatcher  'LOWERCASE'
 locale         Log::Report::Dispatcher  <system locale>
 mode           Log::Report::Dispatcher  'NORMAL'
 replace                         false
 to                              <required>

. accept => REASONS

. charset => CHARSET

. format_reason => 'UPPERCASE'|'LOWERCASE'|'UCFIRST'|'IGNORE'|CODE

. locale => LOCALE

. mode => 'NORMAL'|'VERBOSE'|'ASSERT'|'DEBUG'|0..3

. replace => BOOLEAN

Only used in combination with a FILENAME: throw away the old file if it exists. Probably you wish to append to existing information.

Use the LOCALE setting by default, which is LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL or LANG (in that order). If these contain a character-set which Perl understands, then that is used, otherwise silently ignored.

. to => FILENAME|FILEHANDLE|FILE-OBJECT

You can either specify a FILENAME, which is opened in append mode, or any kind of handle or object which accepts supports print(). When cleaning-up the dispatcher, the file will only be closed in case of a FILENAME.

Accessors

$obj->filename

Returns the name of the opened file, or undef in case this dispatcher was started from a file-handle or file-object.

$obj->isDisabled

See Accessors in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->mode

See Accessors in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->name

See Accessors in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->needs

See Accessors in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->type

See Accessors in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

Logging

$obj->collectLocation

Log::Report::Dispatcher::File->collectLocation

See Logging in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->collectStack([MAXDEPTH])

See Logging in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->log(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)

See Logging in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)

Log::Report::Dispatcher::File->stackTraceLine(OPTIONS)

See Logging in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

$obj->translate(HASH-of-OPTIONS, REASON, MESSAGE)

See Logging in the Log::Report::Dispatcher manpage

DETAILS

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Log-Report distribution version 0.19, built on November 24, 2008. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2007-2008 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html