Interest in simple log adapter?

[killercup]

I might be interested in adding a simple logger adapter based on the log crate using the journald interface here. Is this something that would fit in this crate (behind a feature flag)?

[lucab]

Thanks for reaching out. I'm not against that in principle, but at the same time I'm not completely sure this is the right place for that.

The current logging module is meant to only provide the low-level "send to journal" primitives (see review comment), but we can re-discuss that.

Is it part of a larger logging framework? If so, I do like slog and fern approach to have the logger implementation on their side.

[jabedude]

Maybe we could have a separate module for implementing the log API with journald?

[killercup]

Yeah, my idea was to have a have a log module that is opt-in with a feature flag that implements log::Log in a basic way, but maybe with support for journald's native key-value data. If it turns outn to be easy I could also imagine supporting env_logger::filter::Filter but in that case you should probably already use a larger logging framework.

[lucab]

Ack, then I guess we can add that directly in logging, the additional logic seems small enough. We can also just expose it (without a feature flag), as I think we won't incur a lot of additional dependencies.

[swsnr]

I just published https://crates.io/crates/systemd-journal-logger which implements a logger over libsystemd's journal functions.