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diff --git a/docs/narr/logging.rst b/docs/narr/logging.rst index 71029bb33..c16673ae6 100644 --- a/docs/narr/logging.rst +++ b/docs/narr/logging.rst @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ how to send log messages to loggers that you've configured. a third-party scaffold which does not create these files, the configuration information in this chapter may not be applicable. +.. index: + pair: settings; logging + pair: .ini; logging + pair: logging; configuration + .. _logging_config: Logging Configuration @@ -242,7 +247,7 @@ level is set to ``INFO``, whereas the application's log level is set to [logger_myapp] level = DEBUG handlers = - qualname = helloworld + qualname = myapp All of the child loggers of the ``myapp`` logger will inherit the ``DEBUG`` level unless they're explicitly set differently. Meaning the ``myapp.views``, @@ -294,15 +299,26 @@ use the :term:`pyramid_exclog` package. Details about its configuration are in its `documentation <http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid_exclog/dev/>`_. +.. index:: + single: TransLogger + single: middleware; TransLogger + pair: configuration; middleware + single: settings; middleware + pair: .ini; middleware + +.. _request_logging_with_pastes_translogger: + Request Logging with Paste's TransLogger ---------------------------------------- -Paste provides the `TransLogger -<http://pythonpaste.org/modules/translogger.html>`_ :term:`middleware` for -logging requests using the `Apache Combined Log Format -<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#combined>`_. TransLogger combined -with a FileHandler can be used to create an ``access.log`` file similar to -Apache's. +The term:`WSGI` design is modular. Waitress logs error conditions, debugging +output, etc., but not web traffic. For web traffic logging Paste provides the +`TransLogger <http://pythonpaste.org/modules/translogger.html>`_ +:term:`middleware`. TransLogger produces logs in the `Apache Combined Log +Format <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html#combined>`_. But +TransLogger does not write to files, the Python logging system must be +configured to do this. The Python FileHandler_ logging handler can be used +alongside TransLogger to create an ``access.log`` file similar to Apache's. Like any standard :term:`middleware` with a Paste entry point, TransLogger can be configured to wrap your application using ``.ini`` file syntax. First, @@ -343,10 +359,12 @@ function of your project's ``__init__`` file: app = TransLogger(app, setup_console_handler=False) return app -TransLogger will automatically setup a logging handler to the console when -called with no arguments, so it 'just works' in environments that don't -configure logging. Since we've configured our own logging handlers, we need -to disable that option via ``setup_console_handler = False``. + +.. note:: + TransLogger will automatically setup a logging handler to the console when + called with no arguments, so it 'just works' in environments that don't + configure logging. Since our logging handlers are configured we disable + the automation via ``setup_console_handler = False``. With the filter in place, TransLogger's logger (named the ``wsgi`` logger) will propagate its log messages to the parent logger (the root logger), sending @@ -361,9 +379,9 @@ its output to the console when we request a page: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6" -To direct TransLogger to an ``access.log`` FileHandler, we need to add that -FileHandler to the list of handlers (named ``accesslog``), and ensure that the -``wsgi`` logger is configured and uses this handler accordingly: +To direct TransLogger to an ``access.log`` FileHandler, we need the following +to add a FileHandler (named ``accesslog``) to the list of handlers, and ensure +that the ``wsgi`` logger is configured and uses this handler accordingly: .. code-block:: ini @@ -395,7 +413,7 @@ directs its records only to the ``accesslog`` handler. Finally, there's no need to use the ``generic`` formatter with TransLogger as TransLogger itself provides all the information we need. We'll use a formatter that passes-through the log messages as is. Add a new formatter -called ``accesslog`` by include the following in your configuration file: +called ``accesslog`` by including the following in your configuration file: .. code-block:: ini @@ -405,7 +423,9 @@ called ``accesslog`` by include the following in your configuration file: [formatter_accesslog] format = %(message)s -Then wire this new ``accesslog`` formatter into the FileHandler: + +Finally alter the existing configuration to wire this new +``accesslog`` formatter into the FileHandler: .. code-block:: ini |