Document clean way to add custom log levels

[heikoheiko]

Is there a different way, other than accessing a private member like in below snippet?

structlog.stdlib.TRACE = TRACE = 5
structlog.stdlib._NAME_TO_LEVEL['trace'] = TRACE
logging.addLevelName(TRACE, "TRACE")

ethereum/pyethereum#202

[hynek]

Do you have any API or wishes in mind?

[heikoheiko]

no not really. maybe something like .addLevelName( int_level, str_name)

[hynek]

So I’m a bit ignorant about stdlib here, how does one add log levels there?

[fxfitz]

stdlib logging levels are defined as integers (defaults are: https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html#logging-levels).

For example, Logger.debug("OMG DEBUG MESSAGE") would be equivalent to Logger.msg(Logger.DEBUG, "OMG DEBUG MESSAGE")

[rydrman]

Has any more thought gone into this? It seems to me that a really good first step would be the ability for internal processes that use the logging level to resolve any integer to its closest recognized level. For example, say we have the standard recognized levels:

CRITICAL = 50
ERROR = 40
WARNING = 30
INFO = 20
DEBUG = 10
NOTSET = 0

in this case, logging at any level from 1-10 is simply understood as DEBUG, and anything over 50 is understood as CRITICAL

This would at least allow custom loggers to understand newly defined levels without breaking anything in the structlog stdlib

[sharmapankaj7]

Custom log level not working with structlog.

Reference - https://stackoverflow.com/q/54505487/6233947

[sharmapankaj7]

I tried above mentioned steps also
structlog.stdlib.TRACE = TRACE = 5
structlog.stdlib._NAME_TO_LEVEL['trace'] = TRACE
logging.addLevelName(TRACE, "TRACE")

But it is still not working for me with latest version

[pdebelak]

@Pankajsharma1 This is technically possible, but very difficult. See possible solution at https://stackoverflow.com/a/56467981/3945932.

[darklow]

Less invasive way and no monkey patching by extending ConsoleRenderer if you only want it to look different:

class MyConsoleRenderer(ConsoleRenderer):
    def __call__(self, logger: WrappedLogger, name: str, event_dict: EventDict) -> str:
        custom_level = event_dict.pop('l', None)
        if custom_level:
            event_dict['level'] = custom_level

        level = event_dict.get('level', None)
        event = event_dict.get('event', None)
        if event:
            if level == 'success':
                event_dict['event'] = colorama.Fore.LIGHTBLUE_EX + _pad(event, self._pad_event) + self._styles.reset
        return super().__call__(logger, name, event_dict)

console_renderer = MyConsoleRenderer()
console_renderer._level_to_color['success'] = colorama.Fore.LIGHTBLUE_EX


# Change processor of formatter to `MyConsoleRenderer` and now you can use:
log.msg("It Happened!", l='success')

# PS. Same way I made debug dim grey as you see in the screenshot

[alexbalandi]

Hello! Is the code provided by @darklow currently the best way to add custom log level or is there a cleaner API as of now?

[hynek]

For console output, I think you can have it more elegantly with the new columns configuration: https://www.structlog.org/en/stable/console-output.html#console-output-configuration

Have a look at https://www.structlog.org/en/stable/api.html#structlog.dev.LogLevelColumnFormatter and its implementation.

[leandrodesouzadev]

@Pankajsharma1 This is technically possible, but very difficult. See possible solution at https://stackoverflow.com/a/56467981/3945932.

Is this still the only to achieve such functionality?
I would like to setup a few more logging levels, and this seems not that "friendly".
And I don't want just to add some colors, but use this information later for filtering.