2014 Winter Project Week:Logging
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Key Investigators
- BWH: Nicole Aucoin
- Isomics: Steve Pieper
- Kitware: Jean-Cristophe Fillion-Robin
- Queen's: Csaba Pinter, Andras Lasso
Project Description
Approach, Plan
- Discuss unifying debug, warning and error logging over Qt and VTK based files
- Discuss back porting the message logger class to CTK
- Discuss UI features from a developer and user point of view
- Implement agreed upon changes
Progress
Discussion
- Logging macros:
- Levels: error, warning, debug
- Collect at each line: message + get the filename and line number automatically
- Log to file: timestamp, level, file, line number, message
- Macro names:
- QT: use standard qDebug, qWarning, etc. macros - in QT5 they will provide everything that we need => Jc will check if these QT features can be backported
- VTK: use standard vtkDebugMacro, vtkWarningMacro, etc. in VTK classes; outside VTK classes use generic VTK logging macros. Not all required macros exist => Nicole will check how they could be added
- Logging to file: => Andras
- All errors end up at CTK error model, so logging to file should be added there
- Log rotation is needed (keep last N log files)
- Write to file after each logged message
- Make logging level configurable (by default error&warning only)
