tlog

tlog tries to provide a simple logging system with extensive tag system. Tags are used for filtering log output. tlog uses hierarchical tags to group multiple tags in one.

Install

$ npm install tlog

Usage

var tlog = require('tlog');

// create loggers

var logA = tlog('logA');
var logB = tlog('logB');

logB.level = tlog.Level.WARNING; // aka. 30

logA.d('Hello, Debug!');
logA.i('Hello, Info!');
logA.w('Hello, Warning!');
logA.e('Hello, Error!');

tlog.level = tlog

logB.d('Hello, Debug!');
logB.i('Hello, Info!');
logB.w('Hello, Warning!');
logB.e('Hello, Error!');

// silence messages from logA
logA.level = tlog.Level.SILENT; // aka. 9999

logA.e('This wont log');

Configs

To use per application configs, put tlog.json in application path. Config file is searched from all applications parent folders.

Last best matching tag from config is used. This enables to set configs for a set of tags at once.

Log levels can have the name or the actual numeric value.

Example config:

{
	"level": "warning", // global log level
	"tags": { // per tag configs
		"log": { // matches everything starting with 'log'
			"level": "debug"
		},
		"logB": { // matches everything starting with 'logB'
			"level": 10
		}
		"logC": {
			"level": null // use global level
		}
	}
}

Log levels

You can use any integer value as a logging level. Here are predefined values.

tlog.Level.DEBUG = 10;
tlog.Level.INFO = 20;
tlog.Level.WARNING = 30;
tlog.Level.ERROR = 40;
tlog.Level.SILENCE = 9999;

Log level options

tlog.Level.options contains the console printing options for each log level.

// create new log level
var PRE_WARNING = 25;
tlog.Level.options[PRE_WARNING] = {
	name: 'pre-warning',
	color: {
		text: 'red',
		background: 'yellow'
	}
};

Writers and formatters

not yet implemented/designed fully