Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: > As for protocol buffers, assuming its absence (so far from the > stdlib is the only objection, how hard would it be to make the logging > package "prepared" so that if one *did* have protocol buffers > installed, it would be a one-line config setting to use them?
I envisage that if protocol buffers were available, and if support for them in logging was to be added, this could be done via an optional keyword arg to the SocketHandler which sets a handler attribute, which would then be used in makePickle to make the required serialized form. @anatoly: The documentation just mentions HMAC as an example; the levels of paranoia to be applied are different for different people, different times and different situations ;-) I assume that someone reading the docs could readily see that they could substitute "sign the pickle" with some alternative strategy in makePickle. You could implement marshal, protocol buffers etc. right now just by overriding SocketHandler.makePickle in your custom class. An alternative strategy would be to provide an optional serializer=None callable in the SocketHandler constructor. If specified, then makePickle would call this serializer with the LogRecord instance as the only argument, and use the return value as the serialized form, instead of calling pickle.dumps. 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
