Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#242 assigned defect

classlogging=on and loggingdirection=out is stupid and easy to do by mistake

Reported by: adehnert@mit.edu Owned by: jgross@mit.edu
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: zephyr Keywords:
Cc: jgross@mit.edu

Description

The loggingdirection controls whether incoming messages, outgoing messages, or both get logged. classlogging controls whether any class messages get logged. Given that all class messages are incoming, setting loggingdirection to out and classlogging to on is stupid. I'd suggest doing (at least) one of the following:

  1. make loggingdirection apply only to personals, and having classlogging=on log all class messages
  2. noting this conflict explicitly in the docs for classlogging and loggingdirection
  3. outputting a warning when classlogging=on and loggingdirection=out are both set

I'm a fan of (1) above, personally.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by jgross@mit.edu

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I've implemented (1) in a commit to perl-logging, at https://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/pull/54. Branch is still blocking on perlvariables.

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by andersk@mit.edu

Is this a good idea? I assume the point of loggingdirection is for multi-BarnOwl setups where only one BarnOwl is logging incoming messages, but every BarnOwl logs outgoing personals. Change (1) would increase the number of variables you need to flip between different BarnOwls in such a setup.

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by jgross@mit.edu

I've now implemented a combination of (2) and (3) in that pull request, at Anders' suggestion; the docs for loggingdirection mention that it overrides variables like classlogging, and, if loggingdirection is out, you get a warning every time you get a non-personal message that would be logged if loggingdirection were both, but is not logged.

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by jgross@mit.edu

[PR#54](https://github.com/barnowl/barnowl/pull/54) now only does (2), and does not output a warning. This is the way it's been for some time.

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