Memento.jl

Memento is flexible hierarchical logging library for julia.

Installation

julia> Pkg.add("Memento")

Quick Start

Start by using Memento

julia> using Memento

Now setup basic logging on the root logger with Memento.config.

julia> logger = Memento.config("debug"; fmt="[{level} | {name}]: {msg}")
Logger(root)

Now start logging with the root logger.

julia> debug(logger, "Something to help you track down a bug.")
[debug | root]: Something to help you track down a bug.

julia> info(logger, "Something you might want to know.")
[info | root]: Something you might want to know.

julia> notice(logger, "This is probably pretty important.")
[notice | root]: This is probably pretty important.

julia> warn(logger, "This might cause an error.")
[warn | root]: This might cause an error.

julia> warn(logger, ErrorException("A caught exception that we want to log as a warning."))
[warn | root]: A caught exception that we want to log as a warning.

julia> error(logger, "Something that should throw an error.")
[error | root]: Something that should throw an error.
ERROR: Something that should throw an error.
 in error(::Memento.Logger, ::String) at /Users/rory/.julia/v0.5/Memento/src/loggers.jl:250

Now maybe you want to have a different logger for each module/submodule. This allows you to have custom logging behaviour and handlers for different modules and provides easier to parse logging output.

julia> child_logger = get_logger("Foo.bar")
Logger(Foo.bar)

julia> set_level(child_logger, "warn")
"warn"

julia> add_handler(child_logger, DefaultHandler(tempname(), DefaultFormatter("[{date} | {level} | {name}]: {msg}")))

Memento.DefaultHandler{Memento.DefaultFormatter,IOStream}(Memento.DefaultFormatter("[{date} | {level} | {name}]: {msg}"),IOStream(<file /var/folders/_6/25myjdtx2fxgjvznn19rp22m0000gn/T/julia8lonyA>),Dict{Symbol,Any}(Pair{Symbol,Any}(:is_colorized,false)))

julia> debug(child_logger, "Something that should only be printed to STDOUT on the root_logger.")
[debug | Foo.bar]: Something that should only be printed to STDOUT on the root_logger.

julia> warn(child_logger, "Warning to STDOUT and the log file.")
[warn | Foo.bar]: Warning to STDOUT and the log file.

NOTE: We used get_logger("Foo.bar"), but you can also do get_logger(current_module()) which allows us to avoid hard coding in logger names.