cpplogger

This is a native Node.js package that can be used for logging purposes. But instead of just writing contents on the monitor, it also writes the contents into circular files. As I was in need of this library to find the behaviour of my IoT devices, I developed it. The core is a C library module based on the following repository:

https://github.com/SergiusTheBest/plog

It uses node-gyp and node-addon-api packages to build.

How to build the project

First you are supposed to install Node.js on your machine. then, to build the project run the following commands inside the project folder:

npm install
npm run build

After running above commands, a build folder will be created which contains the compiled library inside the release folder.

How to use the package

After building the package, cpplogger.node file will be in build/Release folder, which can be used as a Node.js library for logging purposes. There is also a sample index.js file which shows how to use the package file.

const cpplogger = require('./build/Release/cpplogger.node')

cpplogger.init(6,"/home/mahdi/Desktop/cpplogger/plog.log",1000000,4);

cpplogger.LOGV("Log Verbose Mode.");

cpplogger.LOGD("Log Debug Mode.");

cpplogger.LOGI("Log Info Mode.");

cpplogger.LOGW("Log Warning Mode.");

cpplogger.LOGE("Log Error Mode.");

cpplogger.LOGF("Log Fatal Mode.");

By running following command some log contents will be shown on the monitor.

node index.js

The same contents will be saved on the plog.log file as I set the name of log files to be plog.log in init function.

Screenshots

In the following image you can see both the console output and plog.log file contents. A log record will be shown on both console and log file.

init function settings

To start the logging process, we are supposed to run cpplogger.init functions.

For settings of the init function please refere to original repo.

For logging purposes, we use one of the following functions:

• cpplogger.LOGV -> Verbose mode logging
• cpplogger.LOGD -> Debug mode logging
• cpplogger.LOGI -> Info mode logging
• cpplogger.LOGW -> Warning mode logging
• cpplogger.LOGE -> Error mode logging
• cpplogger.LOGF -> Fatal mode logging

Current limitations

Just only string input is supported for logging functions now. but I would like to add other types also.