Re: [boost] Logging library

Subject: Re: [boost] Logging library
From: Tigran Hayrapetyan (tigran.human_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-09 12:24:20

>----- "Tigran Hayrapetyan" <tigran.human_at_[hidden]> a ?crit :
>
> > >----- "Tigran Hayrapetyan" <tigran.human_at_[hidden]> a ?crit :
> > >
>> >> Hello dear Boost community
>> >>
>> >>(...)
>> >> Existing logging libraries which I used, are writing log messages
> > >> linearly,
>> >> just one after another.
> > >> In contrast, as we know, almost any application's working structure
is
> > >> not
> > >> linear, but hierarchical instead, i.e. functions which call other
> > >> functions,
>> >> and so on.
>> >>(...)
>> >
>> >Have you tried Boost.Log and its attributes ?
>> >
>> >
http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/log/detailed/attributes.html#log.detailed.attributes.named_scope
>> >
http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/log/detailed/utilities.html#log.detailed.utilities.scoped_attributes
>> >
>> As I understand, that features of Boost.Log library are for managing
>> attributes of log messages, and not log messages (or their
>> placements)
>> themselves.
> > So the log messages are still placed linearly, and my proposal is to
>> place them hierarchically.
>
> NB: I'm not a Boost.Log expert at all. I was only curious.
>
>And my understanding is that how to handle attributes is left to the sink
backend.
> I would try writing a new sink backend that handles a named_scope
attribute.
>http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/log/extension.html#log.extension.sinks
>

I'm also new to Boost.Log library. I didn't knew that such library exists in
Boost as it is not an official part of Boost libraries
collection<http://www.boost.org/>
.
However, I think also that custom sink backends probably can provide same
functionality as my header file. I will try it too.

Thanks,
Tigran