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6 Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any - Configurator implementation with
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10 version 1.122640
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13 Use this module in combination with Log::Dispatch::Config to allow many
14 formats of configuration file to be loaded, via the Config::Any module.
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17 In the traditional Log::Dispatch::Config way:
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19 use Log::Dispatch::Config; # loads Log::Dispatch
20 use Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any;
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22 my $config = Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any->new('log.yml');
23 Log::Dispatch::Config->configure($config);
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25 # nearby piece of code
26 my $log = Log::Dispatch::Config->instance;
27 $log->alert('Hello, world!');
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29 Alternatively, without a config file on disk:
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31 use Log::Dispatch::Config; # loads Log::Dispatch
32 use Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any;
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34 my $confhash = {
35 dispatchers => ['screen]',
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37 class => 'Log::Dispatch::Screen',
38 min_level => 'debug',
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42 my $config = Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any->new($confhash);
43 Log::Dispatch::Config->configure($config);
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45 # nearby piece of code
46 my $log = Log::Dispatch::Config->instance;
47 $log->alert('Hello, world!');
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50 Log::Dispatch::Config is a wrapper for Log::Dispatch and provides a way
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52 like a lite version of log4j and Log::Log4perl it allows multiple log
53 destinations. The standard configuration file format for
54 Log::Dispatch::Config is AppConfig.
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56 This module plugs in to Log::Dispatch::Config and allows the use of
57 other file formats, in fact any format supported by the Config::Any
58 module. As a bonus you can also pass in a configuration data structure
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62 Follow the examples in the "SYNOPSIS". If you are using an external
63 configuration file, be aware that you are required to use a filename
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66 Below are a couple of tips and tricks you may find useful.
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68 Fall-back default config
69 Being able to use a configuration data structre instead of a file on
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71 user then replaces with their own settings. For example you could have
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82 my $config_file = '/etc/myapp_logging.conf';
83 my $config = $ENV{MYAPP_LOGGING_CONFIG} || $ARGV[0] ||
84 ( -e $config_file ? $config_file : $defaults);
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86 Log::Dispatch::Config->configure_and_watch(
87 Log::Dispatch::Configurator::Any->new($config) );
88 my $dispatcher = Log::Dispatch::Config->instance;
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90 With the above code, your application will check for a filename in an
91 environment variable, then a filename as a command line argument, then
92 check for a file on disk, and finally use its built-in defaults.
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94 Dealing with a "dispatchers" list
95 Log::Dispatch::Config requires that a global setting "dispatchers" have
96 a list value (i.e. your list of dispatchers). A few config file formats
97 do not support list values at all, or list values at the global level
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100 This module allows you to have a small grace when there is only one
101 dispatcher in use. Write the configuration file normally, and the
102 single-item "dispatchers" value will automatically be promoted to a
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108 # this becomes a config of:
109 $config = { dispatchers => 'screen', ... };
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112 $config = { dispatchers => ['screen'], ... };
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114 If you want more than one dispatcher, you then need to use a config
115 file format which supports these lists natively, I'm afraid. A good
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119 My thanks to "miyagawa" for writing Log::Dispatch::Config, from where I
120 also took some tests. Also thanks to Florian Merges for his YAML
121 Configurator, which was a useful example and saved me much time.
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124 Oliver Gorwits <oliver@cpan.org>
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127 This software is copyright (c) 2012 by University of Oxford.
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129 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
130 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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