Class: Logging::Layouts::Parseable

Inherits:
Logging::Layout show all
Defined in:
lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb

Overview

This layout will produce parseable log output in either JSON or YAML format. This makes it much easier for machines to parse log files and perform analysis on those logs.

The information about the log event can be configured when the layout is created. Any or all of the following labels can be set as the items to log:

'logger'     Used to output the name of the logger that generated the
             log event.
'timestamp'  Used to output the timestamp of the log event.
'level'      Used to output the level of the log event.
'message'    Used to output the application supplied message
             associated with the log event.
'file'       Used to output the file name where the logging request
             was issued.
'line'       Used to output the line number where the logging request
             was issued.
'method'     Used to output the method name where the logging request
             was issued.
'pid'        Used to output the process ID of the currently running
             program.
'millis'     Used to output the number of milliseconds elapsed from
             the construction of the Layout until creation of the log
             event.
'thread_id'  Used to output the object ID of the thread that generated
             the log event.
'thread'     Used to output the name of the thread that generated the
             log event. Name can be specified using Thread.current[:name]
             notation. Output empty string if name not specified. This
             option helps to create more human readable output for
             multithread application logs.

These items are supplied to the layout as an array of strings. The items ‘file’, ‘line’, and ‘method’ will only work if the Logger generating the events is configured to generate tracing information. If this is not the case these fields will always be empty.

When configured to output log events in YAML format, each log message will be formatted as a hash in it’s own YAML document. The hash keys are the name of the item, and the value is what you would expect it to be. Therefore, for the default set of times log message would appear as follows:

---
timestamp: 2009-04-17 16:15:42
level: INFO
logger: Foo::Bar
message: this is a log message
---
timestamp: 2009-04-17 16:15:43
level: ERROR
logger: Foo
message: <RuntimeError> Oooops!!

The output order of the fields is not guaranteed to be the same as the order specified in the items list. This is because Ruby hashes are not ordered by default (unless your running this in Ruby 1.9).

When configured to output log events in JSON format, each log message will be formatted as an object (in the JSON sense of the work) on it’s own line in the log output. Therefore, to parse the output you must read it line by line and parse the individual objects. Taking the same example above the JSON output would be:

{"timestamp":"2009-04-17 16:15:42","level":"INFO","logger":"Foo::Bar","message":"this is a log message"}
{"timestamp":"2009-04-17 16:15:43","level":"ERROR","logger":"Foo","message":"<RuntimeError> Oooops!!"}

The output order of the fields is guaranteed to be the same as the order specified in the items list.

Constant Summary collapse

DIRECTIVE_TABLE =

:stopdoc: Arguments to sprintf keyed to directive letters

{
  'logger'    => 'event.logger',
  'timestamp' => 'Time.now.strftime(Pattern::ISO8601)',
  'level'     => '::Logging::LNAMES[event.level]',
  'message'   => 'format_obj(event.data)',
  'file'      => 'event.file',
  'line'      => 'event.line',
  'method'    => 'event.method',
  'pid'       => 'Process.pid',
  'millis'    => 'Integer((Time.now-@created_at)*1000)',
  'thread_id' => 'Thread.current.object_id',
  'thread'    => 'Thread.current[:name]'
}

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Class Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Logging::Layout

#footer, #format, #format_obj, #header, #try_yaml

Constructor Details

#initialize(opts = {}) ⇒ Parseable

call-seq:

Parseable.new( opts )

Creates a new Parseable layout using the following options:

:style  => :json or :yaml
:items  => %w[timestamp level logger message]



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 162

def initialize( opts = {} )
  super
  @created_at = Time.now
  @style = opts.getopt(:style, 'json').to_s.intern
  self.items = opts.getopt(:items, %w[timestamp level logger message])
end

Instance Attribute Details

#items ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute items.



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 169

def items
  @items
end

Class Method Details

.create_json_format_method(layout) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

Pattern.create_json_format_methods( layout )

This method will create the format method in the given Parseable layout based on the configured items for the layout instance.



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 117

def self.create_json_format_method( layout )
  code = "undef :format if method_defined? :format\n"
  code << "def format( event )\n\"{"

  args = []
  code << layout.items.map {|name|
    args << "format_as_json(#{Parseable::DIRECTIVE_TABLE[name]})"
    "\\\"#{name}\\\":%s"
  }.join(',')
  code << "}\\n\" % [#{args.join(', ')}]\nend"
  
  (class << layout; self end).class_eval(code, __FILE__, __LINE__)
end

.create_yaml_format_method(layout) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

Pattern.create_yaml_format_methods( layout )

This method will create the format method in the given Parseable layout based on the configured items for the layout instance.



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 99

def self.create_yaml_format_method( layout )
  code = "undef :format if method_defined? :format\n"
  code << "def format( event )\nstr = {\n"

  code << layout.items.map {|name|
    "'#{name}' => #{Parseable::DIRECTIVE_TABLE[name]}"
  }.join(",\n")
  code << "\n}.to_yaml\nreturn str\nend\n"

  (class << layout; self end).class_eval(code, __FILE__, __LINE__)
end

.json(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

Parseable.json( opts )

Create a new Parseable layout that outputs log events usig JSON style formatting. See the initializer documentation for available options.



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 138

def self.json( opts = {} )
  opts[:style] = 'json'
  new(opts)
end

.yaml(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

call-seq:

Parseable.yaml( opts )

Create a new Parseable layout that outputs log events usig YAML style formatting. See the initializer documentation for available options.



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# File 'lib/logging/layouts/parseable.rb', line 149

def self.yaml( opts = {} )
  opts[:style] = 'yaml'
  new(opts)
end