Boost Logging Library v2 - Table of contents

• Boost Logging Library v2 : Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Feedback
  • Changelog
    • Current Version: v0.22.7, 3 feb 2008
  • Acknowledgements
  • Breaking changes
    • v0.20.1 - Use filters/loggers as functions: append "()" to them
  • Compilers it's been tested on
  • Compiling with bjam

• Getting started - the Fast & Furious way...

• Logging workflow
  • Introduction
  • Step 1: Filtering the message
  • Step 2: Processing the message
  • Step 2A: Gathering the message
  • Step 2B: Writing the message
  • Workflow when using formatters and destinations

• Usage Scenarios (together with code)
  • Scenario 1, Common usage: Multiple levels, One logging class, Multiple destinations.
  • Scenario 2: No levels, One Logger, One Filter
  • Scenario 3: Fastest: Multiple Loggers, One Filter, Not using Formatters/Destinations, Not using <<
  • Your Scenario : Find out logger and filter, based on your application's needs
  • A more complex example - a Line counter application
  • A starter project...

Tutorial

• Headers to #include
• Declaring/Defining your logger/filter class(es)
• Defining macros to do logging
• Choose the best filter/logger class, based on your application's needs
• Scoped Logs
• Using tags
• Profiling - computing the time spent while logging

Special Cases

• Caching messages before logs are initialized
• Using the logger(s)/filter(s) after they've been destroyed

Advanced concepts

• Thread safety
• Internationalization - Using Unicode charaters
• Macros - how, what for?
  • The if-else strategy
  • Using the macros supplied with the library
    • Macros to declare/define logs/filters
    • Macros that help you define your own macros for logging
    • Setting formatter/destination strings
    • Using tags
    • Macros that treat compilation time
    • Macros that deal with Thread Specific Storage

• The logger class
  • The gather namespace
  • The writer namespace
• The filters (namespace)
• Concepts as namespaces
  • General concepts
  • Logging (Processing) the message
  • Manipulator concepts
  • Writing concepts
• Formatters and/or destinations (manipulators namespace)
  • Common base class
  • Specifying the base class
  • Default base classes
  • Using manipulators that come with the library
  • Creating your own formatter and/or destination class(es)
  • Sharing data for manipulator classes
  • Modifying a formatter's state
  • Modifying a destination's state
  • Formatters
  • Destinations

• Boost.Logging Requirements
• TODOs
• Rationales
• Known Issues

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