Sketch the basics of the module out.

README.md

@@ -20,9 +20,14 @@ making it easy to change log levels for specific modules dynamically.
 
     var logmagic = require('logmagic');
     logmagic.registerSink("mysink", function(level, message) { console.log(message); });
+
+    /* Send Info an higher in the root logger to stdout */
+    logmagic.route("__root__", logmagic.INFO, "stdout")
+
     /* Reconfigure all children of mylib to log all debug messages to your custom sink */
     logmagic.route("mylib.*", logmagic.DEBUG, "mysink")
 
+
 Builtin sinks include:
 
 * Standard Out, Standard Error

lib/logmagic.js

@@ -15,3 +15,73 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+var LoggerProxy = require('./proxy').LoggerProxy;
+
+/* Based on the Log levels available in Apache HTTP Server. */
+exports.EMERG = 0;    /* system is unusable */
+exports.ALERT = 1;    /* action must be taken immediately */
+exports.CRIT = 2;     /* critical conditions */
+exports.ERR = 3;      /* error conditions */
+exports.WARNING = 4;  /* warning conditions */
+exports.NOTICE = 5;   /* normal but significant condition */
+exports.INFO = 6;     /* informational */
+exports.DEBUG = 7;    /* debug-level messages */
+exports.TRACE1 = 8;   /* trace-level 1 messages */
+exports.TRACE2 = 9;   /* trace-level 2 messages */
+exports.TRACE3 = 10;  /* trace-level 3 messages */
+exports.TRACE4 = 11;  /* trace-level 4 messages */
+exports.TRACE5 = 12;  /* trace-level 5 messages */
+exports.TRACE6 = 13;  /* trace-level 6 messages */
+exports.TRACE7 = 14;  /* trace-level 7 messages */
+exports.TRACE8 = 15;  /* trace-level 8 messages */
+
+var known_sinks = {};
+var known_loggers = [];
+var known_routes = [];
+
+function applyRoutes(logger) {
+  for(var i=0; i < known_routes.length; i++) {
+    var route = known_routes[i];
+  }
+}
+
+exports.local = function(modulename) {
+  var logger = LoggerProxy(modulename);
+  applyRoutes(logger);
+  known_loggers.push(logger);
+};
+
+exports.registerSink = function(sinkname, callback) {
+  known_sinks[sinkname] = callback;
+};
+
+exports.route = function(match, loglevel, sinkname) {
+
+  if (!(loglevel >= exports.EMERG && loglevel <= exports.TRACE8)) {
+    throw new Error("Invalid Log level: " + loglevel);
+  }
+
+  /* TODO: Maybe it is okay to route before we have a sink loaded (?) */
+  if (known_sinks[sinkname] === undefined) {
+    throw new Error("Invalid Sink: " + sinkname);
+  }
+
+  known_loggers.push({route: match, loglevel: loglevel, callback: known_sinks[sinkname]});
+
+  for(var i=0; i<known_loggers.length; i++) {
+    var logger = known_loggers[i];
+    applyRoutes(logger);
+  }
+};
+
+(function() {
+  /* Default Sinks */
+
+  /* This is just here for initial dev work, REMOVE ME */
+  exports.registerSink("console", function(level, message) {
+    console.log(message);
+  });
+
+  /* Default loggers */
+  exports.route("__root__", exports.INFO, "console");
+})();

lib/proxy.js

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Paul Querna under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * Paul Querna licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+function LoggerProxy(modulename) {
+  this.modulename =  modulename;
+  this.loglevel = -1;
+}