Access Dancer Log object?

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Normally when using dancer you call, for example

debug 'foo';

and it will log the text. But I want to be able to log stuff in an object that doesn't import the dancer syntax. I'm wondering if there's a way to get dancer to just hand me it's log object (I assume there is one) so that I can call things like debug using an object syntax, e.g.

$logger->debug( 'foo' );

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '12 at 19:00

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use Dancer::Logger::Console;

my $logger = Dancer::Logger::Console->new;
$logger->debug("Perl Dancer Rocks!");

You can replace the Console logger with any other logger you want such as Syslog or ConsoleAggregator

answered Mar 23 '12 at 19:00

KnightHacker

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does this normally return a singleton of the internal dancer logger? from the looks of it I'd guess a new instance. – xenoterracide Mar 27 '12 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '12 at 13:24

I'm not sure I follow what you want to do, if you want a logger "that has nothing to do with Dancer" why do you want the one Dancer provides?

You can of course create an instance of a Dancer::Logger::Whatever class but then, I don't really see the point.

Why not using a real standalone logger like Log::Dispatchouli for instance?

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 23 '12 at 22:23

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You can import just the debug keyword.

use Dancer qw(:syntax debug);
debug 'foo';

This way the rest of the functions won't pollute your namespace, but you will still have the familiar DSL syntax. See https://metacpan.org/module/Dancer#EXPORTS for more info.

answered Mar 23 '12 at 22:23

Naveed

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this still ties objects which may have nothing to do with dancer to dancer. My object should be able to work in catalyst, dancer, mojo, etc. – xenoterracide Mar 25 '12 at 00:26
I'm not sure what you mean by it "ties objects". It does not tie any objects to anything AFAIK. The ':syntax' option turns off all the Dancer magic, except for loading the config. – Naveed Mar 25 '12 at 23:24
but I don't need the dancer config... the object I'm writing doesn't necessarily need the dancer logger, it needs a logger, and currently it'd be getting used with dancer so it makes sense to pass it the dancer logger. by doing `use Dancer ...` my module becomes dependent upon dancer directly. – xenoterracide Mar 27 '12 at 17:42

Access Dancer Log object?

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