Refactor + example

example.js

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+var lawgs = require('./index');
+
+// Lawgs configuration is mandatory
+lawgs.config({
+	aws: {
+		accessKeyId: '********', /* Optional is credentials are set in ~/.aws/credentials */
+		secretAccessKey: '******', /* Optional */
+		region: 'us-east-1' /* Required */
+	}
+});
+
+var logger  = lawgs.getOrCreate('SuperbowlLogs'); /* LogGroup */
+var logger2 = lawgs.getOrCreate('SuperbowlLogs'); /* Returns the same instance (caching factory) */
+
+// Logger configuration is optional
+logger.config({
+	// Shows the debugging messages
+	showDebugLogs: true, /* Default to false */
+	// Change the frequency of log upload, regardless of the batch size
+	uploadMaxTimer: 1000, /* Defaults to 5000ms */
+	// Max batch size. An upload will be triggered if this limit is reached within the max upload time
+	uploadBatchSize: 10 /* Defaults to 500 */
+});
+
+/* 'error' is the log stream name */
+logger.log('error', 'Argggg'); // Takes a string
+
+logger.log('touchdown', { // or any serializable object
+	team: 'Patriots',
+	weight: 7
+});

index.js

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ function CloudWatchLogger(logGroupName) {
 	this.showDebugLogs 		= false;
 	this.uploadMaxTimer 	= 5000;
 	this.uploadBatchSize 	= 500;
-	this.appendType 		= true;
 
 	// Private members
 	var logGroupName = logGroupName;
@@ -107,8 +106,13 @@ function CloudWatchLogger(logGroupName) {
 	};
 
 	// Public API
-	this.configure = function(config) {
-		extend(this, config);
+	this.config = function(conf) {
+		extend(this, conf);
+
+		if(conf.settings) {
+			settings = conf.settings;
+		}
+
 		AWS.config.update(settings.aws);
 		cw = new AWS.CloudWatchLogs({ apiVersion: '2015-01-28' });
 		initializeStream();
@@ -234,12 +238,21 @@ function CloudWatchLogger(logGroupName) {
 			|| DEFAULT_TIMEOUT, 'Could not communicate with AWS in a timely fashion');
 	}
 
-	this.configure({ });
+	this.config({ });
 };
 
-module.exports = function(logGroupName) {
-	if(!loggers.hasOwnProperty(logGroupName)) {
-		loggers[logGroupName] = new CloudWatchLogger(logGroupName);
+module.exports = {
+
+	getOrCreate: function(logGroupName) {
+		if(!loggers.hasOwnProperty(logGroupName)) {
+			loggers[logGroupName] = new CloudWatchLogger(logGroupName);
+		}
+
+		return loggers[logGroupName];
+	},
+
+	config: function(s) {
+		extend(true, settings, s);
 	}
-	return loggers[logGroupName];
+
 };