> Hi guys (German).
>
> Today I needed to add some real log to something I am developing and I found
> that SimpleLogger missed those functionalities I was needing. So...I
> implemented them. It is 3 hours effort, so don't expect too much. But I just
> wanted to shared with you in case you need it.
>
> What I did basically is to define SimpleLogger like the public API. But
> then, this class delegates to a LoggerStrategy. I created the following
> implementations: TranscriptLoggerStrategy, NullLoggerStrategy,
> FileLoggerStrategy and FixesFileNameLoggerStrategy.� In addition, I created
> a superclass for them, marking the API with SimpleLogger. This class is
> LoggerStrategy.
>
> So, now you can:
>
> - Enable and disable easily the logging (thanks to NullLoggerStrategy).
> - Change on runtime WHERE or HOW to log (just change the strategy).
> - Be able to write into a File, a Transcript, a FixedFileName, or nothing.
> - Extend to you own strategy (FileAppendLoggerStrategy??
> SocketLoggerStrategy?� etc...)
>
> I did these changes today morning so I didn't have time to write tests nor
> class comments. However, I wrote some class side example methods in
> SimpleLogger.
>
> Finally, for my own projects I want:
> - to use a FixedFileName (very similar to the way PharoDebug.log is used).
> - to only do "self log:" in my classes.
>
> The solution I did is that somewhere (maybe in a class of your project or
> maybe in a special class that holds this) in a class side variable I hold a
> Singleton with the Logger. So that you can always do for example:
> MyAppLogger logger log: 'zaraza'.
>
> And finally, I implemented Object >> log:�� (with category *MyAppPackage)
>
> log: anObject
> ����� MyAppLogger logger log: anObject.
>
> With this, anywhere in the classes of my app I can do:�� self log:
> 'something'.
>
> The code is temporally commited in
http://www.squeaksource.com/Marea
>
> German: if you think I should commit directly to SimpleLogger repo, just let
> me know. In addition, be completely free to change it as you want and commit
> it there too.
>
> Cheers
>
> mariano
>