NAME

Log::Dispatch::Spread - Perl extension for logging Log::Dispatch messages to a Spread cluster

SYNOPSIS

  use Log::Dispatch::Spread;
  my $logobj = Log::Dispatch::Spread->new( 
    name => 'spread',
    min_level => 'debug',
    server => '4803@localhost',
    channels => [ qw( foologs barlogs ) ],
  );

  $logobj->log( level => 'warn', message => "Two plus two equals four\n" );

DESCRIPTION

This module allows for logging via the Log::Dispatch system to a Spread cluster channel of your choice.

METHODS

• new(%p)

  This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

  • name NAME

    The name of the object. Required.

  • min_level LEVEL

    The minimum logging level this object will accept. See the Log::Dispatch documentation for more information. Required.

  • max_level LEVEL

    The maximum logging level this obejct will accept. See the Log::Dispatch documentation for more information. This is not required. By default the maximum is the highest possible level (which means functionally that the object has no maximum).

  • server PORT@HOST

    The Spread server to connect to, specified in Spread.pm's connect string format (port@localhost). The 'PORT' portion can be ommitted, in which case the default (4803) is used.

  • channels [ 'CHANNELONE', 'CHANNELTWO' ]

    The Spread channels to connect to. Must obey Spread's channel naming rules (See the Spread.pm documentation for details)

SEE ALSO

Log::Dispatch (URL)

The Spread Toolkit (including Spread.pm): (URL)

AUTHOR

Brian Thomas, <brian.thomas@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Brian Thomas

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.