1Agent::Tag::Caller(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationAgent::Tag::Caller(3)
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NAME

6       Log::Agent::Tag::Caller - formats caller information
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SYNOPSIS

9        Not intended to be used directly
10        Inherits from Log::Agent::Tag.
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DESCRIPTION

13       This class handles caller information for Log::Agent services and is
14       not meant to be used directly.
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16       This manpage therefore only documents the creation routine parameters
17       that can be specified at the Log::Agent level via the "-caller" switch
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CALLER INFORMATION ENTITIES

21       This class knows about four entities: package, filename, line and
22       subroutine, which are to be understood within the context of the
23       Log::Agent routine being called (e.g. a logwarn() routine), namely:
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25       package
26           This is the package name where the call to the logwarn() routine
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31           This is the file where the call to the logwarn() routine was made.
32           It can be specified as "file" for short, or spelled out completely.
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35           This is the line number where the call to the logwarn() routine was
36           made, in file filename. The name is short enough to be spelled out
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39       subroutine
40           This is the subroutine where the call to the logwarn() routine was
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42           empty.  The name is long enough to warrant the "sub" abbreviation
43           if you don't wish to spell it out fully.
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CREATION ROUTINE PARAMETERS

46       The purpose of those parameters is to define how caller information
47       entities (as defined by the previous section) will be formatted within
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50       "-display" => string
51           Specifies a string with minimal variable substitution: only the
52           caller information entities specified above, or their abbreviation,
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57           Don't forget to use simple quotes to avoid having Perl interpolate
58           those as variables, or escape their leading "$" sign otherwise.
59           Using this convention was deemed to more readable (and natural in
60           Perl) than SGML entities such as "&pack;".
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62           Using this switch supersedes the "-info" and "-format" switches.
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64       "-format" => printf format
65           Formatting instructions for the caller information entities listed
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76       "-info" => "space separated list of parameters"
77           Specifies a list of caller information entities that are to be
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84       "-postfix" => flag
85           Whether the string resulting from the formatting of the caller
86           information entities should be appended to the regular log message
87           or not (i.e. prepended, which is the default).
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90           The separation string between the tag and the log message.  A
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AUTHORS

94       Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com> created the module, it is
95       currently maintained by Mark Rogaski <mrogaski@cpan.org>.
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97       Thanks to Jeff Boes for uncovering wackiness in caller().
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LICENSE

100       Copyright (C) 1999 Raphael Manfredi.  Copyright (C) 2002 Mark Rogaski;
101       all rights reserved.
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103       See Log::Agent(3) or the README file included with the distribution for
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SEE ALSO

107       Log::Agent(3), Log::Agent::Message(3).
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