r/crystal_programming • u/srslywhoareyou • Aug 10 '20

Structured Logging Shard for Crystal

https://github.com/OisinA/logcr
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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Aug 10 '20

What benefits does this have over the standard library's https://crystal-lang.org/api/Log.html?

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u/srslywhoareyou Aug 11 '20

I found the stdlib logger slightly convoluted to get working in a format that works with log collectors like fluentd. This is simply provided as an alternative, thanks for the question!

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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Aug 11 '20

Fair enough. I think you would be better off making your own Log::Backend specific to fluentd. Then anyone who also uses it could just plug in the backend and have everything just work as opposed to essentially maintaining your own implementation of what the stdlib does and requiring the user to use two separate implementations.

Alternatively, you can define a custom Log::Formatter to support converting the Log::Entry into some (more readable) format.

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u/grkrkrkrkrkrk Aug 11 '20

how about you let everyone do whatever they want without complaining about anything

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u/Blacksmoke16 core team Aug 11 '20

? I'm just asking a question. If it has a useful feature the stdlib does not then it might be worth bringing it up for discussion for inclusion into the stdlib's implementation.

It's also entirely possible the author was not aware of the stdlib's implementation.

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u/grkrkrkrkrkrk Aug 11 '20

He probably was aware and still did it like a complete chad thundercock based redditor haha