[Catalyst] Log::Log4perl and Catalys

[Adam Jacob]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Dennis Daupert wrote:
> Adam, great idea! I just learned of the catalyst plugin for  
> Log4Perl from your post; I'm very excited because I have used  
> Log4Perl in a lot of cmd line perl projects, and it just makes life  
> so much easier. Having it available in Catalyst will be great.
>
> I hope you do write one up.

Well, if you're already familiar with Log::Log4perl, using it with  
Catalyst::Log::Log4perl should be a breeze.

In MyApp.pm, just add:

use Catalyst::Log::Log4perl;

MyApp->log(
     Catalyst::Log::Log4perl->new("/path/to/log4perl.conf")
);

And you're done.  If you don't provide an argument to new(), you'll  
get a simple root logger that does the same output as the standard  
Catalyst logger; otherwise, it should be the path to your Log4perl  
config file.

Once configured, the plugin will set the component to the package who  
called it.  So, if you call it from MyApp::Controller::Kitty, it will  
log to the myapp.controller.kitty component.

I'll put something up on the wiki tomorrow, with some more details.

Adam