syslog improvments

example/example.cpp

@@ -40,14 +40,12 @@ int main(int, char* [])
         // Set log level to all loggers to DEBUG and above
         spd::set_level(spd::level::DEBUG);
 
-
         //Create console, multithreaded logger
         auto console = spd::stdout_logger_mt("console");
         console->info("Welcome to spdlog!") ;
         console->info("An info message example {}..", 1);
         console->info() << "Streams are supported too  " << 1;
 
-
         console->info("Easy padding in numbers like {:08d}", 12);
         console->info("Support for int: {0:d};  hex: {0:08x};  oct: {0:o}; bin: {0:b}", 42);
         console->info("Support for floats {:03.2f}", 1.23456);
@@ -69,27 +67,29 @@ int main(int, char* [])
 
         spd::get("console")->info("loggers can be retrieved from a global registry using the spdlog::get(logger_name) function");
 
+		// Debug and trace macros to be turned on/off at compile time.
+		// Evaluates to empty statements if not turned on
+		// Define SPDLOG_DEBUG_ON or SPDLOG_TRACE_ON - before including spdlog.h
         SPDLOG_TRACE(console, "Enabled only #ifdef SPDLOG_TRACE_ON..{} ,{}", 1, 3.23);
         SPDLOG_DEBUG(console, "Enabled only #ifdef SPDLOG_DEBUG_ON.. {} ,{}", 1, 3.23);
-
-        //
+        
+
+#ifdef __linux__		
+		// syslog example
+		std::string ident = "spdlog_example"; // empty ident can be used to use current program name
+        auto syslog_logger = spd::syslog_logger("syslog", ident, LOG_PID);
+        syslog_logger->set_pattern("[%l] %v"); //syslog already put timestamps so set the pattern to minimum (log level and the message)
+        syslog_logger->warn("This message that will end up in syslog. This is Linux only..");
+#endif
+        
         // Asynchronous logging is easy..
         // Just call spdlog::set_async_mode(q_size) and all created loggers from now on will be asynchronous..
-        // Note: queue size must be power of 2!
-        //
-        size_t max_q_size = 1048576;
-        spdlog::set_async_mode(max_q_size);
+        // Note: queue size must be power of 2!                
+        size_t q_size = 1048576;
+        spdlog::set_async_mode(q_size);
         auto async_file= spd::daily_logger_st("async_file_logger", "logs/async_log.txt");
         async_file->info() << "This is async log.." << "Should be very fast!";
 
-        //
-        // syslog example
-        //
-#ifdef __linux__
-        std::string ident = "my_ident";
-        auto syslog_logger = spd::syslog_logger("syslog", ident, spd::sinks::syslog::option::PID | spd::sinks::syslog::option::PERROR, "mail" );
-        syslog_logger->warn("This is warning that will end up in syslog. This is Linux only!");
-#endif
     }
     catch (const spd::spdlog_ex& ex)
     {

include/spdlog/common.h

@@ -27,42 +27,12 @@
 #include<initializer_list>
 #include<chrono>
 
-#ifdef __linux__
-
-#define SYSLOG_NAMES 1
-#include <syslog.h>
-#endif
-
 namespace spdlog
 {
 
 class formatter;
 
-namespace sinks
-{
-
-class sink;
-
-#ifdef __linux__
-namespace syslog
-{
-namespace option
-{
-typedef enum
-{
-    CONS     = LOG_CONS,
-    NDELAY   = LOG_NDELAY,
-    NOWAIT   = LOG_NOWAIT,
-    ODELAY   = LOG_ODELAY,
-    PERROR   = LOG_PERROR,
-    PID      = LOG_PID
-} option_enum;
-}
-}
-#endif
-
-}
-
+namespace sinks { class sink;}
 
 // Common types across the lib
 using log_clock = std::chrono::system_clock;

include/spdlog/details/spdlog_impl.h

@@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ inline std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> spdlog::stderr_logger_st(const std::strin
 
 #ifdef __linux__
 // Create syslog logger
-inline std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> spdlog::syslog_logger(const std::string& logger_name, const std::string& ident, int option, const std::string &facility)
+inline std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> spdlog::syslog_logger(const std::string& logger_name, const std::string& syslog_ident, int syslog_option)
 {
-    return create<spdlog::sinks::syslog_sink>(logger_name, ident, option, facility);
+    return create<spdlog::sinks::syslog_sink>(logger_name, syslog_ident, syslog_option);
 }
 #endif
 

include/spdlog/sinks/syslog_sink.h

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #ifdef __linux__
 
 #include <string>
-
+#include <syslog.h>
 
 #include "./sink.h"
 #include "../common.h"
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ namespace sinks
 class syslog_sink : public sink
 {
 public:
-    syslog_sink(const std::string& ident = "", int option = static_cast<int>(syslog::option::PID), const std::string &facility = "user")
+	//
+    syslog_sink(const std::string& ident = "", int syslog_option=0, int syslog_facility=LOG_USER):
+    	_ident(ident)
     {
-
         _priorities[static_cast<int>(level::TRACE)] = LOG_DEBUG;
         _priorities[static_cast<int>(level::DEBUG)] = LOG_DEBUG;
         _priorities[static_cast<int>(level::INFO)] = LOG_INFO;
@@ -60,10 +61,12 @@ public:
         _priorities[static_cast<int>(level::EMERG)] = LOG_EMERG;
         _priorities[static_cast<int>(level::OFF)] = LOG_INFO;
 
-        ::openlog(ident.c_str(), option, syslog_facility_from_name(facility));
+		//set ident to be program name if empty
+        ::openlog(_ident.empty()? nullptr:_ident.c_str(), syslog_option, syslog_facility);
     }
-    virtual ~syslog_sink() {
-	::closelog();
+ 	~syslog_sink()
+ 	{
+		::closelog();
     }
 
     syslog_sink(const syslog_sink&) = delete;
@@ -74,33 +77,20 @@ public:
         ::syslog(syslog_prio_from_level(msg), "%s", msg.formatted.str().c_str());
     };
 
-protected:
 
-    /**
-     * Simply maps spdlog's log level to syslog priority level.
-     */
-    int syslog_prio_from_level(const details::log_msg &msg) const
-    {
-        return _priorities[static_cast<int>(msg.level)];
-    }
 
 private:
-    std::array<int, 11> _priorities;
-
-    inline int syslog_facility_from_name (const std::string & name)
+    std::array<int, 10> _priorities;
+    //must store the ident because the man says openlog might use the pointer as is and not a string copy
+	const std::string _ident; 
+    
+    //
+    // Simply maps spdlog's log level to syslog priority level.
+    //
+    int syslog_prio_from_level(const details::log_msg &msg) const
     {
-        if (name.empty())
-            return LOG_USER;
-
-        for (int i = 0; facilitynames[i].c_name != NULL; ++i)
-        {
-            if (name == facilitynames[i].c_name)
-                return facilitynames[i].c_val;
-        }
-
-        return LOG_USER;
-
-    }
+        return _priorities[static_cast<int>(msg.level)];
+    }    
 };
 }
 }

include/spdlog/spdlog.h

@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<logger> stderr_logger_st(const std::string& logger_name);
 // Create a syslog logger
 //
 #ifdef __linux__
-
-std::shared_ptr<logger> syslog_logger(const std::string& logger_name, const std::string& ident = "", int option = static_cast<int>(sinks::syslog::option::PID), const std::string &facility = "user");
+std::shared_ptr<logger> syslog_logger(const std::string& logger_name, const std::string& ident = "", int syslog_option = 0);
 #endif
 
 //