C++11 logger with type safe printf-like functions that use Python's format() function's format string mini-language.

• typedef vl::LoggerT<vl::delegate> vl::Logger - delegates writing of messages to LogManager's worker thread
• typedef vl::LoggerT<vl::immediate> vl::ImLogger - writes log messages in current thread

If you want to use vl::Logger class or vl::get_logger() and vl::set_logger() functions, you need to create vl::LogManager that will exist for the duration of any output vl::Logger operations or vl::get_logger() and vl::set_logger() calls. Easiest way to do this is to create an instance of vl::LogManager on the stack at the begging of main().

vl::LogManager log_manager;

It will be destroyed cleanly at the end of main. Beware, however, that in this case you can't use logging in constructors or destructors of static objects, because they run either before or after main(). vl::set_logger() function stores the logger in vl::LogManager's internal map. If a logger with the same name is already stored there, it is overwritten. vl::get_logger() retrieves the logger by name. Changes to retrieved instances of loggers do not propagate to other instances, retrieved in another place. This functions are thread-safe. vl::LogManager also provides a thread for writing log messages that vl::Logger uses. Thread is created in vl::LogManager's constructor and joined in it's destructor. Destructor blocks until all messages have been written.

Creating and using a logger:

vl::Logger logger("default");
logger.set_cout();
logger.add_stream("logfile.log");

logger.log(debug, "{0} {1}", "Hello", "world!");
logger.debug() << "Hello" << "world";

Changing options:

logger.set(vl::noendl);
logger.set(vl::nospace);
logger.unset(vl::nospace);
logger.reset();

• vl::debug
• vl::info
• vl::warning
• vl::error
• vl::critical
• vl::nologging

Priority grows from top to bottom. If message's log level is greater or equal to logger's log level, it gets printed. E. g. logger.warning() << "Some warning."; when logger's log level is vl::info. N. B. vl::nologging is only allowed for logger's log level, but not for message's. Such loggers do not print anything.

• vl::usual default logger option, no other options are set
• vl::noendl don't write '\n' at the end of the message
• vl::nologlevel don't write message's log level before each message
• vl::notimestamp don't write timestamp before each message
• vl::noflush don't immediately flush output streams after each message
• vl::nologgername don't write logger name before each message
• vl::nothreadid don't write thread id before each message
• vl::nospace don't insert spaces between arguments to operator <<

• Format string specifies a template for resulting string, where substring of the form "{X:f}" will be substituted by provided arguments.
• Doubled occurrences of curly braces will be replaced by single occurrence, e. g. "{{" will become "{" and "}}" will become "}" without affecting arguments substitution (use this to insert curly braces).
• X : argument number for substitution starting from 0 for first provided argument
• f : format specifier

format_spec ::=  [[fill]align][sign][#][0][width][,][.precision][type]
fill        ::=  <a character other than '{' or '}'>
align       ::=  "<" | ">" | "=" | "^"
sign        ::=  "+" | "-" | " "
width       ::=  integer
precision   ::=  integer
type        ::=  "b" | "d" | "e" | "E" | "f" | "F" | "g" | "G" | "o" | "s"
                 | "x" | "X" | "%"

• align:

   Symbol | Meaning
  --------|-----------------------------------------------------------------
   **<**  | left (default for strings)
   **>**  | right (default for numerics)
   **=**  | sign aware (sign on the left, if any, number on the right, fill
          | in the middle)
   **^**  | centered (*not implemented yet*)
  

• sign:

   Symbol | Meaning
  --------|-----------------------------------------------------------------
   **+**  | show sign for both positive and negative numbers
   **-**  | show sign only for negative numbers
   ** **  | show sign for negative and space for positive
          | (*not implemented yet*)
  

• # is only valid for integers and only for binary, octal of hex output. It specifies that the output will be prefixed by base ('0b', '0', '0x')

• 0 enables sign-aware zero-padding for numeric types. This is equivalent to a fill character of '0' with an alignment type of '='.

• width specifies the minimum field width

• , option signals the use of a comma for a thousands separator (not implemented yet)

• precision is roughly the number of digits displayed for the number. In general format, the precision is the maximum number of digits displayed. This includes digits before and after the decimal point, but does not include the decimal point itself. Digits in a scientific exponent are not included. In fixed and scientific formats, the precision is the number of digits after the decimal point. (default is 6)

• type

  • general

    ```
     Symbol | Meaning
    --------|-----------------------------------------------------------------
     **s**  | string format (this is default for strings)
    ```
    

  • integers

    ```
     Symbol | Meaning
    --------|-----------------------------------------------------------------
     **b**  | binary format (*not implemented yet*)
     **d**  | decimal format (default for integers)
     **o**  | octal format
     **x**  | hex format (lower-case)
     **X**  | hex format (upper-case)
    ```
    

  • floating-point numbers

    ```
     Symbol | Meaning
    --------|-----------------------------------------------------------------
     **e**  | scientific notation
     **E**  | scientific notation (upper-case)
     **f**  | fixed notation
     **F**  | fixed notation (upper-case)
     **g**  | general format (default); if the number is small enough, fixed
            | format is used; if the number gets too large, the output switches
            | over to scientific format
     **G**  | general format (upper-case)
     **%**  | percentage, multiplies the number by 100 and displays in
            | fixed ('f') format, followed by a percent sign
    ```
    

##TODO:

• write documentation for each function
• add cross-platform coloring of messages
• implement timestamp customization
• add switch for boolalpha