Logger Package

The logger package provides a simplified composite literal for creating structured loggers, leveraging the slog package.

NewLogger

This is the primary function in this package. The NewLogger function takes an io.Writer (optional), and the LOG_LEVEL environment varible (optional). It returns a new logger instance from the slog package.

func NewLogger(writer io.Writer, level ...string) (logger *slog.Logger)

Parameters

• writer: An io.Writer where the log output will be written. This is optional, and if not provided, the logger will default to writing to os.Stdout.
• level: A string (os.Getenv("LOG_LEVEL")) which sets the logging level for the logger. This is optional. If not provided, it defaults to the error logging level - slog.LevelError.

Logging Levels

The logging levels used are:

• DEBUG = -4
• INFO = 0
• WARN = 4
• ERROR = 8
• FATAL = 12 (custom log level)

If a message is logged at a level of ERROR+4, it is output as "FATAL" in the log.

Usage

Use of the logging package should be used at the top level function such as within main. Functions which return errors should remain

To create a logger with default parameters (writing to os.Stdout at ERROR level and above):

log := logger.NewLogger(nil, os.Getenv("LOG_LEVEL"))
...

// Debugging
var1, var2, var3, err := exampleFunction()
log.Debug("exampleFunction has run", "var1", var1, "var2", var2, "var3", var3)

// Information
_, err := exampleFunction()
log.Info("exampleFunction has run")

// Warning
diskSpace, err := diskSpaceChecker()
if diskSpace >= 80 {
	log.Warn("disk space is over 80%")
}

// Error (default level)
_, err := exampleFunction()
	if err != nil {
		log.Error("describe action here", "rsp", err)
	}

// Fatal
ctx := context.Background()
...
_, err := exampleFunction2()
	if err != nil {
		log.Log(ctx, logger.Fatal, "describe action here", "rsp", err)
		os.Exit(1)
	}

Outputs:

time=2023-07-20T16:54:40.558+10:00 level=DEBUG msg="exampleFunction has run" var1="something" var2="something" etc.
time=2023-07-20T16:54:40.558+10:00 level=INFO msg="exampleFunction has run"
time=2023-07-20T16:54:40.558+10:00 level=WARN msg="disk space is over 80%"
time=2023-07-20T16:54:40.558+10:00 level=ERROR msg="describe action here" rsp="error: something in exampleFunction went wrong"
time=2023-07-20T16:54:40.558+10:00 level=FATAL msg="describe action here" rsp="error: something in exampleFunction2 went very wrong"
exit status 1

To create a logger writing to a provided io.Writer at the ERROR level (this is mainly for testing the output stream):

buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
logger := NewLogger(buf)

License

MIT License

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