Hi John,
I would like to be able to provide some logging functionality for some code
that I have written. Basically, in a development release of the software,
I would like to be able to log function calls, return values, variable
assignments, UI control events, object instantiations, etc. Basically I
would like a log file that represents the state of the executing code as it
is executing. This is very useful for finding bugs, especially in release
builds. Now, I was wondering if I could use an aspect to perform the
logging. The aspect would have to know what to log and it would need to
access method/variable/object metadata (what is the variable name, for
example).
With the logging aspect enabled, the following code
DoSomething(int i)
{
i = i + 1;
}
executes as this:
DoSomething(int i)
{
AspectLog("DoSomething(int i) => DoSomething(8)");
i = i + 1;
AspectLog("DoSomething var i = i + 1 => i = 8 + 1");
}
So, I thought that I could write something that would insert the log lines
into the source code, and then run the compiler which would generate the
executable with the logging functionality enabled. Is there a way to do
the same thing, but using aspects? Has anyone else done this yet?
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