Simple logger for debugging purposes
Note: "methods" in this module are actually "static" functions - see hs.logger.new()
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hs.logger.defaultLogLevel |
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Variable |
Description |
Default log level for new logger instances. |
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hs.logger.history() -> list of log entries |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Returns the global log history |
Parameters |
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Returns |
- a list of (at most
hs.logger.historySize() ) log entries produced by all the logger instances, in chronological order; each entry is a table with the following fields: - time - timestamp in seconds since the epoch
- level - a number between 1 (error) and 5 (verbose)
- id - a string containing the id of the logger instance that produced this entry
- message - a string containing the logged message
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hs.logger.historySize([size]) -> number |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Sets or gets the global log history size |
Parameters |
- size - (optional) the desired number of log entries to keep in the history; if omitted, will return the current size; the starting value is 0 (disabled)
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Returns |
- the current or new history size
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Notes |
- if you change history size (other than from 0) after creating any logger instances, things will likely break
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Signature |
hs.logger.new(id, loglevel) -> logger |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Creates a new logger instance |
Parameters |
- id - a string identifier for the instance (usually the module name)
- loglevel - (optional) can be 'nothing', 'error', 'warning', 'info', 'debug', or 'verbose', or a corresponding number between 0 and 5; uses
hs.logger.defaultLogLevel if omitted
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Returns |
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Notes |
- the logger instance created by this method is not a regular object, but a plain table with "static" functions; therefore, do not use the colon syntax for so-called "methods" in this module (as in
mylogger:setLogLevel(3) ); you must instead use the regular dot syntax: mylogger.setLogLevel(3)
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hs.logger.printHistory([entries[, level[, filter[, caseSensitive]]]]) |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Prints the global log history to the console |
Parameters |
- entries - (optional) the maximum number of entries to print; if omitted, all entries in the history will be printed
- level - (optional) the desired log level (see
hs.logger:setLogLevel() ); if omitted, defaults to verbose - filter - (optional) a string to filter the entries (by logger id or message) via
string.find plain matching - caseSensitive - (optional) if true, filtering is case sensitive
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hs.logger.setGlobalLogLevel(lvl) |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Sets the log level for all logger instances (including objects' loggers) |
Parameters |
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hs.logger.setModulesLogLevel(lvl) |
Type |
Function |
Description |
Sets the log level for all currently loaded modules |
Parameters |
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Returns |
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Notes |
- This function only affects module-level loggers, object instances with their own loggers (e.g. windowfilters) won't be affected; you can use
hs.logger.setGlobalLogLevel() for those
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Signature |
hs.logger.level |
Type |
Field |
Description |
The log level of the logger instance, as a number between 0 and 5 |
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hs.logger:d(...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs debug info to the console |
Parameters |
- ... - one or more message strings
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Returns |
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hs.logger:df(fmt,...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs formatted debug info to the console |
Parameters |
- fmt - formatting string as per string.format
- ... - arguments to fmt
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hs.logger:e(...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs an error to the console |
Parameters |
- ... - one or more message strings
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hs.logger:ef(fmt,...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs a formatted error to the console |
Parameters |
- fmt - formatting string as per string.format
- ... - arguments to fmt
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hs.logger:f(fmt,...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs formatted info to the console |
Parameters |
- fmt - formatting string as per string.format
- ... - arguments to fmt
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Signature |
hs.logger:getLogLevel() -> number |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Gets the log level of the logger instance |
Parameters |
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Returns |
- The log level of this logger as a number between 0 and 5
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Signature |
hs.logger:i(...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs info to the console |
Parameters |
- ... - one or more message strings
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hs.logger:setLogLevel(loglevel) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Sets the log level of the logger instance |
Parameters |
- loglevel - can be 'nothing', 'error', 'warning', 'info', 'debug', or 'verbose'; or a corresponding number between 0 and 5
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Returns |
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Signature |
hs.logger:v(...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs verbose info to the console |
Parameters |
- ... - one or more message strings
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Returns |
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hs.logger:vf(fmt,...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs formatted verbose info to the console |
Parameters |
- fmt - formatting string as per string.format
- ... - arguments to fmt
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Returns |
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hs.logger:w(...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs a warning to the console |
Parameters |
- ... - one or more message strings
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hs.logger:wf(fmt,...) |
Type |
Method |
Description |
Logs a formatted warning to the console |
Parameters |
- fmt - formatting string as per string.format
- ... - arguments to fmt
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Returns |
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