Module logger
Logging helper.
Writes to a log file and prints to the console.
This module is a lua script (logger.lua), you need to explicitly load it
with require('logger')
Usage:
require('logger')
local log = logger("MYLOG.LOG")
log:write("hello world!")
log:close()
Functions
| logger (filename[, listener]) | Creates a new logger |
| tolines (str) | Splits a string into a table consisting of the lines of the original string |
Class logger
| logger:write (str) | Writes a string to the log |
| logger:writef (fmt, ...) | Writes a printf style formatted string to the log |
| logger:serialize (o) | Converts any Lua type to a string representation and logs it. |
| logger:close () | Close the log |
Functions
- logger (filename[, listener])
-
Creates a new logger
Parameters:
- filename string the filename of the log file
- listener table an additional 'listener' to write data to, should implement a t:write(str) function (optional)
Returns:
-
logger
the new instance
- tolines (str)
-
Splits a string into a table consisting of the lines of the original string
Parameters:
- str string
Class logger
- logger:write (str)
-
Writes a string to the log
Parameters:
- str the string
- logger:writef (fmt, ...)
-
Writes a printf style formatted string to the log
Parameters:
- fmt string format string
- ... format arguments
- logger:serialize (o)
-
Converts any Lua type to a string representation and logs it.
Recursively enumerates table structures
Parameters:
- o the object to serialize
- logger:close ()
- Close the log