error.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import 	(
 )
 
 func Error(err error, a ...any) {
-	if ! ERROR.B { return }
 	origlog.Println("Error:", err)
 	origlog.Println(a...)
 }

flags.go

@@ -1,159 +1,109 @@
 package log
 
-/*
-	Handles the on/off flags for things like log.Info() and log.Warn()
-*/
-
 import 	(
-	"sync"
+	"errors"
 )
 
-var INFO LogFlag
-var VERBOSE LogFlag
-var SPEW LogFlag
-var WARN LogFlag
-var ERROR LogFlag
-var PRINTLN LogFlag
+var INFO bool = true
+var WARN bool = true
+var ERROR bool = true
 
-// writeMutex protects locks the write process
-var flagsMutex sync.Mutex
+var VERBOSE bool = false
+// var SPEW bool = false
+
+var SPEW LogFlag
 
 type LogFlag struct {
 	B	bool
-	Default	bool	// set at the time of Registration()
 	Name	string
 	Subsystem	string
 	Desc	string
 }
 
+var registered map[string][]string
 var flags []*LogFlag
 
 func init() {
-	INFO.B = false
-	INFO.Name = "INFO"
-	INFO.Subsystem = "log"
-	INFO.Desc = "Enable log.Info()"
-	INFO.Register()
+	registered = make(map[string][]string)
 
 	SPEW.B = false
 	SPEW.Name = "SPEW"
 	SPEW.Subsystem = "log"
 	SPEW.Desc = "Enable log.Spew()"
-	SPEW.Register()
 
-	VERBOSE.B = false
-	VERBOSE.Name = "VERBOSE"
-	VERBOSE.Subsystem = "log"
-	VERBOSE.Desc = "Enable log.Verbose()"
-	VERBOSE.Register()
-
-	WARN.B = true
-	WARN.Name = "WARN"
-	WARN.Subsystem = "log"
-	WARN.Desc = "Enable log.Warn()"
-	WARN.Register()
-
-	ERROR.B = true
-	ERROR.Name = "ERROR"
-	ERROR.Subsystem = "log"
-	ERROR.Desc = "Enable log.Error()"
-	ERROR.Register()
-
-	PRINTLN.B = true
-	PRINTLN.Name = "PRINTLN"
-	PRINTLN.Subsystem = "log"
-	PRINTLN.Desc = "Enable log.Println()"
-	PRINTLN.Register()
+	// register the default flags used by this log package
+	registered["log"] = []string{"SPEW","INFO", "WARN", "ERROR", "VERBOSE"}
 }
 
-// set all the flags
-func SetAll(b bool) {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
+func All(b bool) {
+	Set("SPEW", b)
+	Set("INFO", b)
+	Set("WARN", b)
+	Set("ERROR", b)
+	Set("VERBOSE", b)
 	for _, f := range flags {
+		Warn("All() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
 		f.B = b
-	}
-}
-
-// set all the flags
-func SetDefaults() {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	for _, f := range flags {
-		f.B = f.Default
+		Warn("All() f.B is now", f.B)
 	}
 }
 
 // this bypasses all checks and _always_ logs the info to STDOUT
 // is this a bad idea? Probably not....
-// TODO: returning []*LogFlag is not safe and access must be locked
-// but this is only used by the log debugging window at this time
-func ShowFlags() []*LogFlag {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
+func ListFlags() map[string][]string {
+	Log(true, "ListFlags() registered =", registered)
 	for _, f := range flags {
-		Log(true, "ShowFlags() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
+		Log(true, "ListFlags() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
 	}
 
-	return flags
+	return registered
 }
 
-// TODO, switch to this 
-func ProcessFlags(callback func(*LogFlag)) {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	for _, f := range flags {
-		Log(true, "ProcessFlags() run callback(f) here on", f)
-		callback(f)
-	}
-
-}
-
-
-// register a variable name from a subsystem
-// inspired by Alex Flint
-// set the Default value at the time of registration
-func (f *LogFlag) Register() {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	Info("log.Register() ", f)
-	f.Default = f.B
-	flags = append(flags,f)
-}
-
-func (f *LogFlag) Set(b bool) {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	Info("Set() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
-	f.B = b
-	Info("Set() f.B is now", f.B)
-}
-
-func Set(subsystem string, name string, b bool) {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	Info("Set() TODO find var:", "(" + subsystem + ")", name, "=", b)
-	for _, f := range flags {
-		Log(true, "Set() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
-		if (subsystem == f.Subsystem) && (name == f.Name) {
-			Log(true, "Set() FOUND ", f)
-			f.B = b
-			return
+func Set(flag string, b bool) {
+	switch flag {
+	case "INFO":
+		INFO = b
+	case "WARN":
+		WARN = b
+	case "SPEW":
+		SPEW.B = b
+	case "ERROR":
+		ERROR = b
+	case "VERBOSE":
+		VERBOSE = b
+	default:
+		Error(errors.New("unknown flag"), "Flag name sent:", flag)
 	}
 }
 
-}
-
-func Get(subsystem string, name string) bool {
-	flagsMutex.Lock()
-	defer flagsMutex.Unlock()
-	Info("Get() TODO find var:", "(" + subsystem + ")", name)
-	for _, f := range flags {
-		Log(true, "Get() ", "(" + f.Subsystem + ")", f.Name, "=", f.B, ":", f.Desc)
-		if (subsystem == f.Subsystem) && (name == f.Name) {
-			Log(true, "Get() FOUND ", f)
-			return f.B
-		}
+func Get(flag string) bool {
+	switch flag {
+	case "INFO":
+		return INFO
+	case "WARN":
+		return WARN
+	case "SPEW":
+		return SPEW.B
+	case "ERROR":
+		return ERROR
+	case "VERBOSE":
+		return VERBOSE
+	default:
+		Error(errors.New("unknown flag"), "Flag name sent:", flag)
 	}
 	return false
 }
+
+// register a variable name from a subsystem
+// inspired by Alex Flint
+func (f *LogFlag) Register() {
+	Info("log.Register() ", f)
+	flags = append(flags,f)
+}
+
+// register a variable name from a subsystem
+// this is used for custom log flags
+func Register(subsystem string, name string, b *bool) {
+	Info("log.Register() got subsystem", subsystem, "with name =", name, "bool value =", b)
+	registered[subsystem] = append(registered[subsystem], name)
+}

info.go

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import 	(
 )
 
 func Info(a ...any) {
-	if ! INFO.B { return }
+	if ! INFO { return }
 	golanglog.Println(a...)
 }
 
 func Infof(s string, a ...any) {
-	if ! INFO.B { return }
+	if ! INFO { return }
 	golanglog.Printf(s, a...)
 }

notes.go

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+package log
+
+/*
+var argv struct {
+	Foo string
+	Bar bool
+	User string `arg:"env:USER"`
+	Demo bool `help:"run a demo"`
+}
+*/
+
+/*
+var f1 *os.File
+var f2 *os.File
+var err error
+*/
+
+/* from gocron:
+
+// DefaultLogger is used by Cron if none is specified.
+var DefaultLogger Logger = PrintfLogger(log.New(os.Stdout, "cron: ", log.LstdFlags))
+
+// DiscardLogger can be used by callers to discard all log messages.
+var DiscardLogger Logger = PrintfLogger(log.New(ioutil.Discard, "", 0))
+
+// Logger is the interface used in this package for logging, so that any backend
+// can be plugged in. It is a subset of the github.com/go-logr/logr interface.
+type Logger interface {
+	// Info logs routine messages about cron's operation.
+	Info(msg string, keysAndValues ...interface{})
+	// Error logs an error condition.
+	Error(err error, msg string, keysAndValues ...interface{})
+}
+
+*/
+
+//	fmt.Println(argv.Foo, args.Bar, args.User)
+/*
+	// from: https://github.com/robfig/cron/blob/master/logger.go
+	log.Println()
+	log.Println("STDOUT is now at /tmp/guilogfile")
+	log.Println("STDOUT is now at /tmp/guilogfile")
+	log.Println()
+	f1, err = os.OpenFile(outfile, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREATE | os.O_APPEND, 0666)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("error opening file: %v", err)
+	}
+	// hmm. is there a trick here or must this be in main()
+	// defer f.Close()
+
+	log.SetOutput(f1)
+	log.Println("This is a test log entry")
+*/
+
+/*
+func captureSTDOUT() {
+	f2, _ = os.OpenFile("/tmp/my.log", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0664)
+	multiWriter := io.MultiWriter(os.Stderr, f2)
+	rd, wr, err := os.Pipe()
+	if err != nil {
+	    os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	// overwrite os.Stdout
+	os.Stderr = wr
+
+	go func() {
+	    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(rd)
+	    for scanner.Scan() {
+	        stdoutLine := scanner.Text()
+	        multiWriter.Write([]byte(stdoutLine + "\n"))
+	    }
+	}()
+
+	fmt.Println("foobar")
+
+	// hacky sleep to ensure the go routine can write before program exits
+	time.Sleep(time.Second)
+}
+*/

original.go

@@ -18,19 +18,15 @@ package log
 	so this package appears to work exactly like the original ones
 */
 
-// TODO: fill in the other functions from "log". Is there a way to automagically do that?
-
 import 	(
 	origlog "log"
 )
 
 func Println(a ...any) {
-	if ! PRINTLN.B { return }
 	origlog.Println(a...)
 }
 
 func Printf(s string, a ...any) {
-	if ! PRINTLN.B { return }
 	origlog.Printf(s, a...)
 }
 

sleep.go

@@ -1,12 +1,44 @@
 package log
+//
+// version v1.2
+//
+// I like things to be easy.
+//
+// this means all the log settings are in one place. it should allow
+// things to be over-ridden externally to the library
+// but still allow command line --args to pass debugging settings
+//
+// I also have a generic sleep() and exit() in here because it's simple
+//
+// Usage:
+//
+// log("something", foo, bar)
+// var DEBUG bool = true
+// log(DEBUG, "something else", someOtherVariable)  # if DEBUG == false, return doing nothing
+//
 
-// a shortcut for sleep so you don't have to always change the import lines when debugging
+/*
+	I've spent, am spending, too much time thinking about 'logging'. 'log', 'logrus', 'zap', whatever.
+	I'm not twitter. i don't give a fuck about how many nanoseconds it takes to log. Anyway, this
+	implementation is probably faster than all of those because you just set one bool to FALSE
+	and it all stops.
+	Sometimes I need to capture to stdout, sometimes stdout can't
+	work because it doesn't exist for the user. This whole thing is a PITA. Then it's spread
+	over 8 million references in every .go file. I'm tapping out and putting
+	it in one place. here it is. Also, this makes having debug levels really fucking easy.
+	You can define whatever level of logging you want from anywhere (command line) etc.
+
+	log()		# doesn't do anything
+	log(stuff)	# sends it to whatever log you define in a single place. here is the place
+*/
 
 import 	(
 	"os"
 	"time"
 	"errors"
 	"reflect"
+
+	origlog "log"
 )
 
 /*
@@ -19,7 +51,7 @@ func Sleep(a ...any) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	Info("sleep", a[0])
+	origlog.Println("sleep", a[0])
 
 	switch a[0].(type) {
 	case int:
@@ -27,7 +59,7 @@ func Sleep(a ...any) {
 	case float64:
 		time.Sleep(time.Duration(a[0].(float64) * 1000) * time.Millisecond)
 	default:
-		Info("sleep a[0], type = ", a[0], reflect.TypeOf(a[0]))
+		origlog.Println("sleep a[0], type = ", a[0], reflect.TypeOf(a[0]))
 	}
 }
 
@@ -37,7 +69,7 @@ func Sleep(a ...any) {
 	exit("dont like apples")	# ok. I'll make a note of that
 */
 func Exit(a ...any) {
-	Error(errors.New("log.Exit()"), a)
+	Error(errors.New("Exit"), a)
 	//if (a) {
 	//	os.Exit(a)
 	//}

verbose.go

@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ import 	(
 )
 
 func Verbose(a ...any) {
-	if ! VERBOSE.B { return }
+	if ! VERBOSE { return }
 	golanglog.Println(a...)
 }

warn.go

@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ import 	(
 )
 
 func Warn(a ...any) {
-	if ! WARN.B { return }
+	if ! WARN { return }
 	origlog.Println(a...)
 }