proxey-ilogger

a logging library for node.js

Getting started

npm install proxey-ilogger

const ilogger = require('proxey-ilogger');

##API

###Create a new logger instance You can get a new logger instance by one of the three following ways:

const ilogger = require('proxey-ilogger');
const logger = new ilogger();

const ilogger = require('proxey-ilogger');
const logger = ilogger();

const ilogger = require('proxey-ilogger');
const logger = ilogger.getLogger();

You can also pass a string to each of these 3 methods. This string will then appear in each log line. This comes in handy if you have more than one logging instances in multiple files.

const ilogger = require('proxey-ilogger');
const logger = new ilogger('Service XY');

###Configuration

####ilogger.setConsoleOutput(Boolean) default: true Enable or disable logging to the console. This affects all existing and future logger instances.

####ilogger.setFileOutput(Boolean) default: false Enable or disable logging to a file. you also have to set the filename for this to work. This affects all existing and future logger instances.

####ilogger.setFilename(String) default: null Sets the filename for logging to a file. You also have to enable file logging. This affects all existing and future logger instances.

####ilogger.setLevel(Level) default: Level.INFO Sets the log level. Must be an instance of ilogger.Level. The default-level is INFO. This affects all existing and future logger instances.

####ilogger.setMillis(Number) default: null Set the timestamp which used for creating the datetime in each log-line. If it's set to null it will use the current datetime. This is probably only useful for tests.

available levels:

const ilogger = require('ilogger');
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.ALL)
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.DEBUG)
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.INFO)
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.WARN)
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.ERROR)
ilogger.setLevel(ilogger.Level.FATAL)

##Examples

###Two files with each one logging instance To keep track of where your log lines come from, you can pass e.g the name of a file to the constructor of the logging instance.

File1:

const ilogger = require('ilogger');
const logger = new ilogger('File1');
logger.info("this is file1");

File2:

const ilogger = require('ilogger');
const logger = new ilogger('File2');
logger.info("this is not file1");

If you run your application, ilogger will output something like this:

2016-06-15 22:07:01,640 INFO  [File1] this is file1
2016-06-15 22:07:01,649 INFO  [File2] this is not file1