NAME¶
Log::Log4perl::Appender::ScreenColoredLevel - Colorize messages according to
level
SYNOPSIS¶
use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);
Log::Log4perl->init(\ <<'EOT');
log4perl.category = DEBUG, Screen
log4perl.appender.Screen = \
Log::Log4perl::Appender::ScreenColoredLevels
log4perl.appender.Screen.layout = \
Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
log4perl.appender.Screen.layout.ConversionPattern = \
%d %F{1} %L> %m %n
EOT
# Appears black
DEBUG "Debug Message";
# Appears green
INFO "Info Message";
# Appears blue
WARN "Warn Message";
# Appears magenta
ERROR "Error Message";
# Appears red
FATAL "Fatal Message";
DESCRIPTION¶
This appender acts like Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen, except that it
colorizes its output, based on the priority of the message sent.
You can configure the colors and attributes used for the different levels, by
specifying them in your configuration:
log4perl.appender.Screen.color.TRACE=cyan
log4perl.appender.Screen.color.DEBUG=bold blue
You can also specify nothing, to indicate that level should not have coloring
applied, which means the text will be whatever the default color for your
terminal is. This is the default for debug messages.
log4perl.appender.Screen.color.DEBUG=
You can use any attribute supported by Term::ANSIColor as a configuration
option.
log4perl.appender.Screen.color.FATAL=\
bold underline blink red on_white
The commonly used colors and attributes are:
- attributes
- BOLD, DARK, UNDERLINE, UNDERSCORE, BLINK
- colors
- BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE
- background colors
- ON_BLACK, ON_RED, ON_GREEN, ON_YELLOW, ON_BLUE, ON_MAGENTA, ON_CYAN,
ON_WHITE
See Term::ANSIColor for a complete list, and information on which are supported
by various common terminal emulators.
The default values for these options are:
- Trace
- Yellow
- Debug
- None (whatever the terminal default is)
- Info
- Green
- Warn
- Blue
- Error
- Magenta
- Fatal
- Red
The constructor "new()" takes an optional parameter
"stderr", if set to a true value, the appender will log to STDERR.
If "stderr" is set to a false value, it will log to STDOUT. The
default setting for "stderr" is 1, so messages will be logged to
STDERR by default. The constructor can also take an optional parameter
"color", whose value is a hashref of color configuration options,
any levels that are not included in the hashref will be set to their default
values.
Using ScreenColoredLevels on Windows¶
Note that if you're using this appender on Windows, you need to fetch
Win32::Console::ANSI from CPAN and add
use Win32::Console::ANSI;
to your script.
LICENSE¶
Copyright 2002-2013 by Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com> and Kevin Goess
<cpan@goess.org>.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR¶
Please contribute patches to the project on Github:
http://github.com/mschilli/log4perl
Send bug reports or requests for enhancements to the authors via our
MAILING LIST (questions, bug reports, suggestions/patches):
log4perl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Authors (please contact them via the list above, not directly): Mike Schilli
<m@perlmeister.com>, Kevin Goess <cpan@goess.org>
Contributors (in alphabetical order): Ateeq Altaf, Cory Bennett, Jens Berthold,
Jeremy Bopp, Hutton Davidson, Chris R. Donnelly, Matisse Enzer, Hugh Esco,
Anthony Foiani, James FitzGibbon, Carl Franks, Dennis Gregorovic, Andy
Grundman, Paul Harrington, Alexander Hartmaier David Hull, Robert Jacobson,
Jason Kohles, Jeff Macdonald, Markus Peter, Brett Rann, Peter Rabbitson, Erik
Selberg, Aaron Straup Cope, Lars Thegler, David Viner, Mac Yang.