Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout - Pattern Layout
use Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout;
my $layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout->new(
"%d (%F:%L)> %m");
Creates a pattern layout according to
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/PatternLayout.html
and a couple of Log::Log4perl-specific extensions.
The new() method creates a new PatternLayout, specifying its log
format. The format
string can contain a number of placeholders which will be
replaced by the logging engine when it's time to log the message:
%c Category of the logging event.
%C Fully qualified package (or class) name of the caller
%d Current date in yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss format
%d{...} Current date in customized format (see below)
%F File where the logging event occurred
%H Hostname (if Sys::Hostname is available)
%l Fully qualified name of the calling method followed by the
callers source the file name and line number between
parentheses.
%L Line number within the file where the log statement was issued
%m The message to be logged
%m{chomp} Log message, stripped off a trailing newline
%m{indent} Log message, multi-lines indented so they line up with first
%m{indent=n} Log message, multi-lines indented by n spaces
%M Method or function where the logging request was issued
%n Newline (OS-independent)
%p Priority/level of the logging event (%p{1} shows the first letter)
%P pid of the current process
%r Number of milliseconds elapsed from program start to logging
event
%R Number of milliseconds elapsed from last logging event to
current logging event
%T A stack trace of functions called
%x The topmost NDC (see below)
%X{key} The entry 'key' of the MDC (see below)
%% A literal percent (%) sign
NDC and MDC are explained in Nested Diagnostic Context (NDC) in the Log::Log4perl manpage
and Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) in the Log::Log4perl manpage.
The granularity of time values is milliseconds if Time::HiRes is available.
If not, only full seconds are used.
Every once in a while, someone uses the ``%m%n'' pattern and
additionally provides an extra newline in the log message (e.g.
->log("message\n"). To avoid printing an extra newline in
this case, the PatternLayout will chomp the message, printing only
one newline. This option can be controlled by PatternLayout's
message_chomp_before_newline option. See Advanced options
for details.
All placeholders can be extended with formatting instructions,
just like in printf:
%20c Reserve 20 chars for the category, right-justify and fill
with blanks if it is shorter
%-20c Same as %20c, but left-justify and fill the right side
with blanks
%09r Zero-pad the number of milliseconds to 9 digits
%.8c Specify the maximum field with and have the formatter
cut off the rest of the value
Some placeholders have special functions defined if you add curlies
with content after them:
%c{1} Just show the right-most category component, useful in large
class hierarchies (Foo::Baz::Bar -> Bar)
%c{2} Just show the two right most category components
(Foo::Baz::Bar -> Baz::Bar)
%F Display source file including full path
%F{1} Just display filename
%F{2} Display filename and last path component (dir/test.log)
%F{3} Display filename and last two path components (d1/d2/test.log)
%M Display fully qualified method/function name
%M{1} Just display method name (foo)
%M{2} Display method name and last path component (main::foo)
In this way, you're able to shrink the displayed category or
limit file/path components to save space in your logs.
If you're not happy with the default %d format for the date which
looks like
yyyy/MM/DD HH:mm:ss
(which is slightly different from Log4j which uses yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS)
you're free to fine-tune it in order to display only certain characteristics
of a date, according to the SimpleDateFormat in the Java World
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html):
%d{HH:mm} "23:45" -- Just display hours and minutes
%d{yy, EEEE} "02, Monday" -- Just display two-digit year
and spelled-out weekday
%d{e} "1473741760" -- Epoch seconds
%d{h a} "12 PM" -- Hour and am/pm marker
... and many more
For an exhaustive list of all supported date features, look at
the Log::Log4perl::DateFormat manpage.
First of all, ``cspecs'' is short for ``conversion specifiers'', which is
the log4j and the printf(3) term for what Mike is calling ``placeholders.''
I suggested ``cspecs'' for this part of the api before I saw that Mike was
using ``placeholders'' consistently in the log4perl documentation. Ah, the
joys of collaboration ;=) --kg
If the existing corpus of placeholders/cspecs isn't good enough for you,
you can easily roll your own:
#'U' a global user-defined cspec
log4j.PatternLayout.cspec.U = sub { return "UID: $< "}
#'K' cspec local to appndr1 (pid in hex)
log4j.appender.appndr1.layout.cspec.K = sub { return sprintf "%1x", $$}
#and now you can use them
log4j.appender.appndr1.layout.ConversionPattern = %K %U %m%n
The benefit of this approach is that you can define and use the cspecs
right next to each other in the config file.
If you're an API kind of person, there's also this call:
Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout::
add_global_cspec('Z', sub {'zzzzzzzz'}); #snooze?
When the log message is being put together, your anonymous sub
will be called with these arguments:
($layout, $message, $category, $priority, $caller_level);
layout: the PatternLayout object that called it
message: the logging message (%m)
category: e.g. groceries.beverages.adult.beer.schlitz
priority: e.g. DEBUG|WARN|INFO|ERROR|FATAL
caller_level: how many levels back up the call stack you have
to go to find the caller
Please note that the subroutines you're defining in this way are going
to be run in the main namespace, so be sure to fully qualify functions
and variables if they're located in different packages. Also make sure
these subroutines aren't using Log4perl, otherwise Log4perl will enter
an infinite recursion.
With Log4perl 1.20 and better, cspecs can be written with parameters in
curly braces. Writing something like
log4perl.appender.Screen.layout.ConversionPattern = %U{user} %U{id} %m%n
will cause the cspec function defined for %U to be called twice, once
with the parameter 'user' and then again with the parameter 'id',
and the placeholders in the cspec string will be replaced with
the respective return values.
The parameter value is available in the 'curlies' entry of the first
parameter passed to the subroutine (the layout object reference).
So, if you wanted to map %U{xxx} to entries in the POE session hash,
you'd write something like:
log4perl.PatternLayout.cspec.U = sub { \
POE::Kernel->get_active_session->get_heap()->{ $_[0]->{curlies} } }
B<SECURITY NOTE>
This feature means arbitrary perl code can be embedded in the config file.
In the rare case where the people who have access to your config file are
different from the people who write your code and shouldn't have execute
rights, you might want to set
$Log::Log4perl::Config->allow_code(0);
before you call init(). Alternatively you can supply a restricted set of
Perl opcodes that can be embedded in the config file as described in
Restricting what Opcodes can be in a Perl Hook in the Log::Log4perl manpage.
=head2 Advanced Options
The constructor of the Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout class
takes an optional hash reference as a first argument to specify
additional options in order to (ab)use it in creative ways:
my $layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout->new(
{ time_function => \&my_time_func,
},
"%d (%F:%L)> %m");
Here's a list of parameters:
- time_function
-
Takes a reference to a function returning the time for the time/date
fields, either in seconds
since the epoch or as an array, carrying seconds and
microseconds, just like
Time::HiRes::gettimeofday does.
- message_chomp_before_newline
-
If a layout contains the pattern ``%m%n'' and the message ends with a newline,
PatternLayout will chomp the message, to prevent printing two newlines.
If this is not desired, and you want two newlines in this case,
the feature can be turned off by setting the
message_chomp_before_newline option to a false value:
my $layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout->new(
{ message_chomp_before_newline => 0
},
"%d (%F:%L)> %m%n");
In a Log4perl configuration file, the feature can be turned off like this:
log4perl.appender.App.layout = PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.App.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %m%n
# Yes, I want two newlines
log4perl.appender.App.layout.message_chomp_before_newline = 0
If your code contains logging statements like
# WRONG, don't do that!
$logger->debug("Some message\n");
then it's usually best to strip the newlines from these calls. As explained
in Logging newlines in the Log::Log4perl manpage, logging statements should never contain
newlines, but rely on appender layouts to add necessary newlines instead.
If changing the code is not an option, use the special PatternLayout
placeholder %m{chomp} to refer to the message excluding a trailing
newline:
log4perl.appender.App.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %m{chomp}%n
This will add a single newline to every message, regardless if it
complies with the Log4perl newline guidelines or not (thanks to
Tim Bunce for this idea).
If a log message consists of several lines, like
$logger->debug("line1\nline2\nline3");
then by default, they get logged like this (assuming the the layout is
set to ``%d>%m%n''):
# layout %d>%m%n
2014/07/27 12:46:16>line1
line2
line3
If you'd rather have the messages aligned like
# layout %d>%m{indent}%n
2014/07/27 12:46:16>line1
line2
line3
then use the %m{indent} option for the %m specifier. This option
can also take a fixed value, as in %m{indent=2}, which indents
subsequent lines by two spaces:
# layout %d>%m{indent=2}%n
2014/07/27 12:46:16>line1
line2
line3
Note that you can still add the chomp option for the %m specifier
in this case (see above what it does), simply add it after a
separating comma, like in %m{indent=2,chomp}.
Copyright 2002-2013 by Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com>
and Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Please contribute patches to the project on Github:
http://github.com/mschilli/log4perl
Send bug reports or requests for enhancements to the authors via our
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Authors (please contact them via the list above, not directly):
Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com>,
Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>
Contributors (in alphabetical order):
Ateeq Altaf, Cory Bennett, Jens Berthold, Jeremy Bopp, Hutton
Davidson, Chris R. Donnelly, Matisse Enzer, Hugh Esco, Anthony
Foiani, James FitzGibbon, Carl Franks, Dennis Gregorovic, Andy
Grundman, Paul Harrington, Alexander Hartmaier David Hull,
Robert Jacobson, Jason Kohles, Jeff Macdonald, Markus Peter,
Brett Rann, Peter Rabbitson, Erik Selberg, Aaron Straup Cope,
Lars Thegler, David Viner, Mac Yang.
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