On numerous occasions, requests have been made for the ability to easily add user-defined data to logging events. For example, a multi-threaded server application may want to output specific information to a particular server thread (e.g. the identity of the client, specific protocol options for the client connection, etc.)
This is currently possible, but you have to subclass the Logger class and override its makeRecord method to put custom attributes in the LogRecord. These can then be output using a customised format string containing e.g. "%(foo)s %(bar)d". The approach is usable but requires more work than necessary. I'd like to propose a simpler way of achieving the same result, which requires use of an additional optional keyword argument in logging calls. The signature of the (internal) Logger._log method would change from def _log(self, level, msg, args, exc_info=None) to def _log(self, level, msg, args, exc_info=None, extra_info=None) The extra_info argument will be passed to Logger.makeRecord, whose signature will change from def makeRecord(self, name, level, fn, lno, msg, args, exc_info): to def makeRecord(self, name, level, fn, lno, msg, args, exc_info, extra_info) makeRecord will, after doing what it does now, use the extra_info argument as follows: If type(extra_info) != types.DictType, it will be ignored. Otherwise, any entries in extra_info whose keys are not already in the LogRecord's __dict__ will be added to the LogRecord's __dict__. Can anyone see any problems with this approach? If not, I propose to post the approach on python-list and then if there are no strong objections, check it in to the trunk. (Since it could break existing code, I'm assuming (please correct me if I'm wrong) that it shouldn't go into the release24-maint branch.) Of course, if anyone can suggest a better way of doing it, I'm all ears :-) Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
