// The contents of this file are in the public domain. See LICENSE_FOR_EXAMPLE_PROGRAMS.txt /* This is a somewhat complex example illustrating the use of the logger object from the dlib C++ Library. It will demonstrate using multiple loggers and threads. The output of this program looks like this: 0 INFO [0] example: This is an informational message. 0 WARN [0] example: The variable is bigger than 4! Its value is 8 0 INFO [0] example: make two threads 0 WARN [0] example.test_class: warning! someone called warning()! 0 INFO [0] example: we are going to sleep for half a second. 0 INFO [1] example.thread: entering our thread 0 WARN [1] example.test_class: warning! someone called warning()! 0 INFO [2] example.thread: entering our thread 0 WARN [2] example.test_class: warning! someone called warning()! 203 INFO [1] example.thread: exiting our thread 203 INFO [2] example.thread: exiting our thread 503 INFO [0] example: we just woke up 503 INFO [0] example: program ending */ #include <dlib/logger.h> #include <dlib/misc_api.h> #include <dlib/threads.h> using namespace dlib; /* Here we create three loggers. Note that it is the case that: - logp.is_child_of(logp) == true - logt.is_child_of(logp) == true - logc.is_child_of(logp) == true logp is the child of itself because all loggers are their own children :) But the other two are child loggers of logp because their names start with logp.name() + "." which means that whenever you set a property on a logger it will also set that same property on all of the logger's children. */ logger logp("example"); logger logt("example.thread"); logger logc("example.test_class"); class test { public: test () { // this message won't get logged because LINFO is too low logc << LINFO << "constructed a test object"; } ~test () { // this message won't get logged because LINFO is too low logc << LINFO << "destructed a test object"; } void warning () { logc << LWARN << "warning! someone called warning()!"; } }; void thread (void*) { logt << LINFO << "entering our thread"; test mytest; mytest.warning(); dlib::sleep(200); logt << LINFO << "exiting our thread"; } void setup_loggers ( ) { // Create a logger that has the same name as our root logger logp. This isn't very useful in // this example program but if you had loggers defined in other files then you might not have // easy access to them when starting up your program and setting log levels. This mechanism // allows you to manipulate the properties of any logger so long as you know its name. logger temp_log("example"); // For this example I don't want to log debug messages so I'm setting the logging level of // All our loggers to LINFO. Note that this statement sets all three of our loggers to this // logging level because they are all children of temp_log. temp_log.set_level(LINFO); // In addition I only want the example.test_class to print LWARN or higher messages so I'm going // to set that here too. Note that we set this value after calling temp_log.set_level(). If we // did it the other way around the set_level() call on temp_log would set logc_temp.level() and // logc.level() back to LINFO since temp_log is a parent of logc_temp. logger logc_temp("example.test_class"); logc_temp.set_level(LWARN); // Finally, note that you can also configure your loggers from a text config file. // See the documentation for the configure_loggers_from_file() function for details. } int main() { setup_loggers(); // print our first message. It will go to cout because that is the default. logp << LINFO << "This is an informational message."; int variable = 8; // Here is a debug message. It won't print though because its log level is too low (it is below LINFO). logp << LDEBUG << "The integer variable is set to " << variable; if (variable > 4) logp << LWARN << "The variable is bigger than 4! Its value is " << variable; logp << LINFO << "make two threads"; create_new_thread(thread,0); create_new_thread(thread,0); test mytest; mytest.warning(); logp << LINFO << "we are going to sleep for half a second."; // sleep for half a second dlib::sleep(500); logp << LINFO << "we just woke up"; logp << LINFO << "program ending"; // It is also worth pointing out that the logger messages are atomic. This means, for example, that // in the above log statements that involve a string literal and a variable, no other thread can // come in and print a log message in-between the literal string and the variable. This is good // because it means your messages don't get corrupted. However, this also means that you shouldn't // make any function calls inside a logging statement if those calls might try to log a message // themselves since the atomic nature of the logger would cause your application to deadlock. }