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logger (development version)

New features

Fixes

Housekeeping

logger 0.3.0 (2024-03-03)

CRAN release: 2024-03-05

Many unrelated small features, fixes and documentation updates collected over 2+ years.

New features

  • update log_* functions to invisibly return the formatted log message and record (#26, @r2evans)
  • add namespace argument to log_shiny_input_changes (#93, @kpagacz)
  • optionally suppress messages in globalCallingHandlers after being logged (#100, @DanChaltiel)
  • as.loglevel helper to convert string/number to loglevel (requested by @tentacles-from-outer-space)
  • new formatter function: formatter_glue_safe (#126, @terashim)
  • support OFF log level (#138, @pawelru)
  • override default INFO log level via env var (#145, requested by sellorm)

Fixes

  • handle zero-length messages in formatter_glue_or_sprintf (#74, @deeenes)
  • generalize log_separator to work with all layout functions (#96, @Polkas)
  • support log levels in log_shiny_input_changes (#103, @taekeharkema)
  • fix fn name lookup/reference with nested calls (#120, reported by @averissimo)
  • force the file argument of appender_tee (#124, reported by @dbontemps)
  • don’t allow stacking logger hooks on messages/warnings/errors (reported by @jkeuskamp)
  • improve fragile test case when Hmisc loaded (#131, @r2evans)
  • pass index, namespace etc from log_ functions down to log_level (#143, @MichaelChirico)
  • refer to the caller function in global message logger hooks (#146, reported by @gabesolomon10)

logger 0.2.2 (2021-10-10)

CRAN release: 2021-10-19

Maintenance release:

  • fix unbalanced code chunk delimiters in vignette (yihui/knitr#2057)

logger 0.2.1 (2021-07-06)

CRAN release: 2021-07-06

Maintenance release:

  • update appender_slack to use slackr_msg instead of text_slackr

logger 0.2.0 (2021-03-03)

CRAN release: 2021-03-04

Breaking changes

  • appender_console writes to stderr by default instead of stdout (#28)

Fixes

  • default date format in glue layouts (#44, @burgikukac)
  • fn reference in loggers will not to a Cartesian join on the log lines and message, but merge (and clean up) the fn even for large anonymous functions (#20)

New features

  • allow defining the log level threshold as a string (#13, @artemklevtsov)
  • allow updating the log level threshold, formatter, layout and appender in all namespaces with a single call (#50)
  • new argument to appender_file to optionally truncate before appending (#24, @eddelbuettel)
  • new arguments to appender_file to optionally rotate the log files after appending (#42)
  • new meta variables for logging in custom layouts: R version and calling package’s version
  • improved performance by not evaluating arguments when the log record does not meet the log level threshold (#27, @jozefhajnala)
  • logger in now part of the Mikata Project: https://mikata.dev

New helper functions

  • %except%: evaluate an expression with fallback
  • log_separator: logging with separator lines (#16)
  • log_tictoc: tic-toc logging (#16, @nfultz)
  • log_failure: log error before failing (#19, @amy17519)
  • log_messages, log_warnings, log_errors: optionally auto-log messages, warnings and errors using globalCallingHandlers on R 4.0.0 and above, and injecting logger calls to message, warnings and stop below R 4.0.0
  • log_shiny_input_changes: auto-log input changes in Shiny apps (#25)

New formatter functions

  • layout_pander: transform R objects into markdown before logging (#22)

New layout functions

  • layout_blank: blank log messages without any modification
  • layout_json_parser: render the layout as a JSON blob after merging with requested meta fields

New appender functions

  • appender_telegram: deliver log records to Telegram (#14, @artemklevtsov)
  • appender_syslog: deliver log records to syslog (#30, @atheriel)
  • appender_kinesis: deliver log records to Amazon Kinesis (#35)
  • appender_async: wrapper function for other appender functions to deliver log records in a background process asynchronously without blocking the master process (#35)

logger 0.1 (2018-12-20)

CRAN release: 2019-01-02

Initial CRAN release after collecting feedback for a month on Twitter at https://twitter.com/daroczig/status/1067461632677330944:

  • finalized design of a log request defined by

    • a log level threshold,
    • a formatter function preparing the log message,
    • a layout function rendering the actual log records and
    • an appender function delivering to the log destination

  • detailed documentation with 7 vignettes and a lot of examples, even some benchmarks

  • ~75% code coverage for unit tests

  • 5 formatter functions mostly using paste, sprintf and glue

  • 6 layout functions with convenient wrappers to let users define custom layouts via glue or JSON, including colorized output

  • 5 appender functions delivering log records to the console, files, Pushbullet and Slack

  • helper function to evaluate an expressions with auto-logging both the expression and its result

  • helper function to temporarily update the log level threshold

  • helper function to skip running the formatter function on a log message

  • mostly backward compatibly with the logging and futile.logger packages