logctxr

logctxr is a helper package for the logr minimal logging API that enables a Logger instance to be embedded in and retrieved from a Go context.

Since the core of a program only needs to import github.com/iand/logctxr it reduces the dependency on a specific logger implementation. Typically a program will create a root logger at startup and embed it into a context that is passed through the rest of the program. Submodules of the program can derive new loggers using the standard logr interface.

Example usage:

package main

import (
    "github.com/iand/logctxr"
    "github.com/iand/logfmtr"
)


func init() {
    // Ensure that logctxr knows how to make new logger instances
    // if it needs to
    logctxr.NewLogger = logfmtr.New
}

func main() {
    // Create a root logger
    root := logfmtr.New().WithName("root").V(2)

    // Embed the logger in a context
    loggerCtx := logctxr.NewContext(context.Background(), root)

    // Pass the context to the other function
    other(loggerCtx)

}


// A function that uses a context
func other(ctx context.Context) {
    // Retrieve the logger from the context
    logger := logctxr.FromContext(ctx)
    logger.Info("the sun is shining")
}

Author

• Ian Davis - http://iandavis.com/

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.