Re: [Boost-users] [log] Why aren't logger operations const ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [log] Why aren't logger operations const ?
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-24 03:07:44

Le 24/11/13 08:48, Mauricio Carneiro a écrit :
> I am trying to use a severity channel logger but I hit the problem 
> with BOOST_LOG_SEV not being a const method -- I'm thinking because of 
> both open_record() and push_record()
>
> This will basically force me to make all methods in my classes not 
> const because they want to write out to their loggers. I can't really 
> afford to do that -- so I'm restricted to  global loggers at the moment.
>
> In my current implementation, each class has a logger with the class 
> name as the channel (initialized in their constructors), and it issues 
> log messages at any point with BOOST_LOG_SEV(this->logger, level)
>
You can declare your logger member mutable.

Vicente
> I'd love to hear the reason behind the non-constness and if my design 
> is not the intended for Boost::Log.
>
>