Request to provide a library crate if possible

[kushaldas]

Thank you for this useful project.

I am wondering if it will be possible for you to provide a library crate so that other projects can use laurel features. This way we don't have to re-invent the wheel and depend on laurel as upstream.

Use case I am looking at: Instead of logging into a file, push to a redis instance or some other queue for processing in a different way.

[hillu]

We don't have such plans so far, but your Redis idea is interesting!

I have been thinking about changing Coalesce so that it emits messages to an io::Write interface instead of passing them back to the main loop. Once this is done, I'd be very happy to add other backends in addition to the existing file logger.

[kushaldas]

We don't have such plans so far, but your Redis idea is interesting!

I have been thinking about changing Coalesce so that it emits messages to an io::Write interface instead of passing them back to the main loop. Once this is done, I'd be very happy to add other backends in addition to the existing file logger.

Thank you for the reply, I guess I will have to wait till you have time to be able to provide a different back end.

[hillu]

I think we'll be getting there soon. The main obstacle at the moment is figuring out (by having discussions with the compiler) whether Coalesce shout own or mutably borrow the std::io::Write thing. :-)

But I am really looking forward to your PR.

[hillu]

@kushaldas As of 18d38cd (or somewhere around that), there is a library. And in 01866e6, I added a commit that you could use to hook up other backends such as Redis.

Can I close this issue?

[hillu]

@kushaldas laurel 0.2.0 which has just been released is a library crate that happens to also contain the message recoding tool as before.

Sorry for taking so long with getting this done… Is this what you had in mind?

[hillu]

@kushaldas ping?

[hillu]

@kushaldas I am closing this issue now.

[kushaldas]

Missed all notifications in the last 5-6 months, saw this now. Sorry for not replying. I will try again in the coming week and get back to you with any feedback.

Thank you for doing this.

[hillu]

@kushaldas ping?