NAME

       Log::Contextual::Role::Router - Abstract interface between loggers and logging code blocks

VERSION

       version 0.006005

SYNOPSIS

         package MyApp::Log::Router;

         use Moo;
         use Log::Contextual::SimpleLogger;

         with 'Log::Contextual::Role::Router';

         has logger => (is => 'lazy');

         sub _build_logger {
            return Log::Contextual::SimpleLogger->new({ levels_upto => 'debug' });
         }

         sub before_import {
            my ($self, %export_info) = @_;
            my $exporter = $export_info{exporter};
            my $target = $export_info{target};
            print STDERR "Package '$target' will import from '$exporter'\n";
         }

         sub after_import {
            my ($self, %export_info) = @_;
            my $exporter = $export_info{exporter};
            my $target = $export_info{target};
            print STDERR "Package '$target' has imported from '$exporter'\n";
         }

         sub handle_log_request {
            my ($self, %message_info) = @_;
            my $log_code_block = $message_info{message_sub};
            my $args = $message_info{message_args};
            my $log_level_name = $message_info{message_level};
            my $logger = $self->logger;
            my $is_active = $logger->can("is_${log_level_name}");

            return unless defined $is_active && $logger->$is_active;
            my $log_message = $log_code_block->(@$args);
            $logger->$log_level_name($log_message);
         }

         package MyApp::Log::Contextual;

         use Moo;
         use MyApp::Log::Router;

         extends 'Log::Contextual';

         #This example router is a singleton
         sub router {
            our $Router ||= MyApp::Log::Router->new
         }

         package main;

         use strict;
         use warnings;
         use MyApp::Log::Contextual qw(:log);

         log_info { "Hello there" };

DESCRIPTION

       Log::Contextual has three parts

       Export manager and logging method generator
           These tasks are handled by the "Log::Contextual" package.

       Logger selection and invocation
           The logging functions generated and exported by Log::Contextual call a method on an instance of a log
           router object which is responsible for invoking any loggers that should get an opportunity to receive
           the log message. The "Log::Contextual::Router" class implements the set_logger() and with_logger()
           functions as well as uses the arg_ prefixed functions to configure itself and provide the standard
           "Log::Contextual" logger selection API.

       Log message formatting and output
           The logger objects themselves accept or reject a log message at a certain log level with a guard
           method per level. If the logger is going to accept the log message the router is then responsible for
           executing the log message code block and passing the generated message to the logging object's log
           method.

METHODS

       before_import($self, %import_info)
       after_import($self,  %import_info)
           These two required methods are called with identical arguments at two different places during the
           import process. The before_import() method is invoked prior to the logging subroutines being exported
           into the target package and after_import() is called when the export is completed but before control
           returns to the package that imported the API.

           The arguments are passed as a hash with the following keys:

           exporter
               This is the name of the package that has been imported. It can also be 'Log::Contextual' itself.
               In the case of the synopsis the value for exporter would be 'MyApp::Log::Contextual'.

           target
               This is the package name that is importing the logging API. In the case of the synopsis the value
               would be 'main'.

           arguments
               This is a hash reference containing the configuration values that were provided for the import.
               The key is the name of the configuration item that was specified without the leading hyphen
               ('-').  For instance if the logging API is imported as follows

                 use Log::Contextual qw( :log ), -logger => Custom::Logger->new({ levels => [qw( debug )] });

               then $import_info{arguments}->{logger} would contain that instance of Custom::Logger.

       handle_log_request($self, %message_info)
           This method is called by "Log::Contextual" when a log event happens. The arguments are passed as a
           hash with the following keys

           exporter
               This is the name of the package that created the logging methods used to generate the log event.

           caller_package
               This is the name of the package that the log event has happened inside of.

           caller_level
               This is an integer that contains the value to pass to caller() that will provide information
               about the location the log event was created at.

           log_level
               This is the name of the log level associated with the log event.

           message_sub
               This is the message generating code block associated with the log event passed as a subref. If
               the logger accepts the log request the router should execute the subref to create the log message
               and then pass the message as a string to the logger.

           message_args
               This is an array reference that contains the arguments given to the message generating code
               block.  When invoking the message generator it will almost certainly be expecting these argument
               values as well.

AUTHOR

       Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux+cpan@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.