xLog

Android logger, pretty, powerful and flexible, log to everywhere, save to file, all you want is here.

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XLog

Lightweight and pretty, powerful and flexible logger for android and java, can print the log to Logcat, Console and Files, or anywhere if you like.

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Quick Start

Dependency

implementation 'com.elvishew:xlog:1.11.1'

Initialization

XLog.init(LogLevel.ALL);

Logging

XLog.d("hello xlog");

Logging

Log simple message.

XLog.d(message);

Log a message with throwable, usually use when exception is thrown.

XLog.e(message, throwable);

Format string is also supported, so you don’t have to append so many strings and variables by +.

XLog.d("Hello %s, I am %d", "Elvis", 20);

Unformatted JSON and XML string will be formatted automatically.

XLog.json(JSON_CONTENT);
XLog.xml(XML_CONTENT);

All Collections and Maps data are supported.

XLog.d(array);
XLog.d(list);
XLog.d(map);

If needed, you can also dump Intent and Bundle object directly.

XLog.d(intent);
XLog.d(bundle);

In fact, you can dump any type of object if you want. You can specify an ObjectFormatter for specific type, otherwise toString() will be used when converting the object to a string.

XLog.d(object);

Note: v/d/i/w/e are optional, v for VERBOSE, d for DEBUG, i for INFO, w for WARNING and e for ERROR.

Config

xLog is very flexible, almost every component is configurable.

When initialization, there are a simple way

XLog.init(LogLevel.ALL);

and advance way.

LogConfiguration config = new LogConfiguration.Builder()
    .logLevel(BuildConfig.DEBUG ? LogLevel.ALL             // Specify log level, logs below this level won't be printed, default: LogLevel.ALL
        : LogLevel.NONE)
    .tag("MY_TAG")                                         // Specify TAG, default: "X-LOG"
    .enableThreadInfo()                                    // Enable thread info, disabled by default
    .enableStackTrace(2)                                   // Enable stack trace info with depth 2, disabled by default
    .enableBorder()                                        // Enable border, disabled by default
    .jsonFormatter(new MyJsonFormatter())                  // Default: DefaultJsonFormatter
    .xmlFormatter(new MyXmlFormatter())                    // Default: DefaultXmlFormatter
    .throwableFormatter(new MyThrowableFormatter())        // Default: DefaultThrowableFormatter
    .threadFormatter(new MyThreadFormatter())              // Default: DefaultThreadFormatter
    .stackTraceFormatter(new MyStackTraceFormatter())      // Default: DefaultStackTraceFormatter
    .borderFormatter(new MyBoardFormatter())               // Default: DefaultBorderFormatter
    .addObjectFormatter(AnyClass.class,                    // Add formatter for specific class of object
        new AnyClassObjectFormatter())                     // Use Object.toString() by default
    .addInterceptor(new BlacklistTagsFilterInterceptor(    // Add blacklist tags filter
        "blacklist1", "blacklist2", "blacklist3"))
    .addInterceptor(new MyInterceptor())                   // Add other log interceptor
    .build();

Printer androidPrinter = new AndroidPrinter(true);         // Printer that print the log using android.util.Log
Printer consolePrinter = new ConsolePrinter();             // Printer that print the log to console using System.out
Printer filePrinter = new FilePrinter                      // Printer that print(save) the log to file
    .Builder("<path-to-logs-dir>")                         // Specify the directory path of log file(s)
    .fileNameGenerator(new DateFileNameGenerator())        // Default: ChangelessFileNameGenerator("log")
    .backupStrategy(new NeverBackupStrategy())             // Default: FileSizeBackupStrategy(1024 * 1024)
    .cleanStrategy(new FileLastModifiedCleanStrategy(MAX_TIME))     // Default: NeverCleanStrategy()
    .flattener(new MyFlattener())                          // Default: DefaultFlattener
    .writer(new MyWriter())                                // Default: SimpleWriter
    .build();

XLog.init(                                                 // Initialize XLog
    config,                                                // Specify the log configuration, if not specified, will use new LogConfiguration.Builder().build()
    androidPrinter,                                        // Specify printers, if no printer is specified, AndroidPrinter(for Android)/ConsolePrinter(for java) will be used.
    consolePrinter,
    filePrinter);

After initialization, a global Logger with the global config is created, all logging via XLog will pass to this global Logger.

Besides, you can create unlimmited number of Logger with different configs:

Base on global Logger, change tag to "TAG-A".

Logger logger = XLog.tag("TAG-A")
                    ... // other overrides
                    .build();
logger.d("Message with custom tag");

Base on global Logger, enable border and thread info.

Logger logger = XLog.enableBorder()
                    .enableThread()
                    ... // other overrides
                    .build();
logger.d("Message with thread info and border");

you can also log with one-time-use config:

XLog.tag("TAG-A").d("Message with custom tag");
XLog.enableBorder().enableThread().d("Message with thread info and border");

Print to anywhere

With one logging statement

XLog.d("hello xlog");

you can print the "hello xlog" to

Logcat (with AndroidPrinter)
File (with FilePrinter)

and anywhere you like.

Just implement the Printer interface, and specify it when initializing

XLog.init(config, printer1, printer2...printerN);

or when creating a non-global Logger

Logger logger = XLog.printer(printer1, printer2...printerN)
                    .build();

or when one-time-use logging

XLog.printer(printer1, printer2...printerN).d("Message with one-time-use printers");

Save logs to file

To save logs to file, you need to create a FilePrinter

Printer filePrinter = new FilePrinter                      // Printer that print(save) the log to file
    .Builder("<path-to-logs-dir>")                         // Specify the directory path of log file(s)
    .fileNameGenerator(new DateFileNameGenerator())        // Default: ChangelessFileNameGenerator("log")
    .backupStrategy(new NeverBackupStrategy())             // Default: FileSizeBackupStrategy(1024 * 1024)
    .cleanStrategy(new FileLastModifiedCleanStrategy(MAX_TIME))     // Default: NeverCleanStrategy()
    .flattener(new MyFlattener())                          // Default: DefaultFlattener
    .build();

and add the FilePrinter to XLog when initializing

XLog.init(config, filePrinter);

or when creating an non-global Logger

Logger logger = XLog.printer(filePrinter)
                    ... // other overrides
                    .build();

or when one-time-use logging

XLog.printer(filePrinter).d("Message with one-time-use printers");

Save third party logs

You can config LibCat after initializing XLog.

LibCat.config(true, filePrinter);

Then, the logs logged by third party modules/libraries(within same app) will be saved to file too.

Go to LibCat for more details.

Custom file name

You can specify the file name directly, or categorize the logs to different files by some rules.

Use ChangelessFileNameGenerator, you can specify a changeless file name.

logs-dir
└──log

Use LevelFileNameGenerator, it will categorize logs by levels automatically.

logs-dir
├──VERBOSE
├──DEBUG
├──INFO
├──WARN
└──ERROR

Use DateFileNameGenerator, it will categorize logs by date automatically.

logs-dir
├──2020-01-01
├──2020-01-02
├──2020-01-03
└──2020-01-04

Implement FileNameGenerator directly, make the file name generating rules by yourself.

logs-dir
├──2020-01-01-<hash1>.log
├──2020-01-01-<hash2>.log
├──2020-01-03-<hash>.log
└──2020-01-05-<hash>.log

By default, a ChangelessFileNameGenerator with log file name log is used.

Custom log format

Log elements(date, time, level and message) should be flattened to a single string before being printed to the file, you need a Flattener to do that.

We have defined a PatternFlattener, which may satisfy most of you. All you need to do is just passing a pattern with parameters to the flattener.

Supported parameters:

Parameter	Represents
{d}	Date in default date format “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS”
{d format}	Date in specific date format
{l}	Short name of log level. e.g: V/D/I
{L}	Long name of log level. e.g: VERBOSE/DEBUG/INFO
{t}	Tag of log
{m}	Message of log

Imagine there is a log, with DEBUG level, "my_tag" tag and "Simple message" message, the flattened log would be as below.

Pattern	Flattened log
{d} {l}/{t}: {m}	2016-11-30 13:00:00.000 D/my_tag: Simple message
{d yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} {l}/{t}: {m}	2016-11-30 13:00:00.000 D/my_tag: Simple message
{d yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} {l}\|{t}: {m}	2016/11/30 13:00:00 D\|my_tag: Simple message
{d yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} {l}\|{t}: {m}	16/11/30 13:00:00 D\|my_tag: Simple message
{d MM/dd HH:mm} {l}-{t}-{m}	11/30 13:00 D-my_tag-Simple message

If you don’t even want to construct a pattern, ClassicFlattener is for you. It is a PatternFlattener with a default pattern {d} {l}/{t}: {m}.

By default, FilePrinter use a DefaultFlattener, which just simply concat the timestamp and message together. You may don’t like it, so please remember to specify your own Flattener, maybe a ClassicFlattener.

Auto backup

Every single log file may grow to an unexpected size, a AbstractBackupStrategy2 allow you to start a new file at some point, and change the old file name with .bak.n(n is the backup index) suffix.

logs-dir
├──log
├──log.bak.1
├──log.bak.2
├──log.bak.3
├──...
└──log.bak.n

If you don’t like the .bak.n suffix, you can use BackupStrategy2 directly to specify the backup file name.

Mostly, you just want to start a new file when the log file reach a specified max-size, so FileSizeBackupStrategy2 is presented for you.

By default, FileSizeBackupStrategy(1024*1024) is used, which will auto backup the log file when it reach a size of 1M. Besides, there will only be one logging file and one backup file in the same time, that means you can save at most only 2M logs.

So, if you want to save more logs, and more backup files, please use FileSizeBackupStrategy2 instead, this allow you keeping multiple backup files in the same time.

Auto clean

If you use a changeable FileNameGenerator, there would be more than one log files in the logs folder, and gets more and more as time goes on. Besides, if you use a backup strategy not limiting the max backup index, that would also make numbers of log files out of control. To prevent running out of disk space, you need a CleanStrategy.

Typically, you can use a FileLastModifiedCleanStrategy, which will delete log files that have not been modified for a period of time(e.g., a week) during initialization.

By default, NeverCleanStrategy is used, which will never do any cleaning.

Compress log files

Just call

LogUtil.compress("<path-to-logs-dir>", "<path-to-zip-file>");

a zip file will be created and the entire log folder will be compressed and written to it, so you can easily collect the user logs for issue-debug.

Note: the origianl log files will not be deleted.

Intercept and filter log

Before each log being printed, you have a chance to modify or filter out the log, by using an Interceptor.

We have already predefined some Interceptor for you, e.g. WhitelistTagsFilterInterceptor only allows the logs of specified tags to be printed, and BlacklistTagsFilterInterceptor is used to filter out(not print) logs of specified tags.

You can specify multiple Interceptors for a single Logger, these Interceptors will be given the opportunity to modify or filter out logs in the order in which they were added. Once a log is filtered out by an Interceptor, subsequent Interceptors will no longer get this log.

Format object

When logging an object

XLog.d(object);

the toString of the object will be called by default.

Sometimes, the toString implementation of the object is not quite what you want, so you need an ObjectFormatter to define how this type of object should be converted to a string when logging.

On the android platform, we predefine IntentFormatter and BundleFormatter for Intent and Bundle class.

You can implement and add your own ObjectFormatter for any class.

Please note, ObjectFormatters only work when logging an object.

Similar libraries

logger
KLog

Compare with other logger libraries:

Well documented
So flexible that you can easily customize or enhance it

Compatibility

In order to be compatible with Android Log, all the methods of Android Log are supported here.

See the Log class defined in XLog.

Log.v(String, String);
Log.v(String, String, Throwable);
Log.d(String, String);
Log.d(String, String, Throwable);
Log.i(String, String);
Log.i(String, String, Throwable);
Log.w(String, String);
Log.w(String, String, Throwable);
Log.wtf(String, String);
Log.wtf(String, String, Throwable);
Log.e(String, String);
Log.e(String, String, Throwable);
Log.println(int, String, String);
Log.isLoggable(String, int);
Log.getStackTraceString(Throwable);

Migration

If you have a big project using the Android Log, and it is a hard work to change all usage of Android Log to XLog, then you can use the compatible API, simply replace all ‘android.util.Log’ to ‘com.elvishew.xlog.XLog.Log’.
(For a better performance, you should think about not using the compatible API.)

Linux/Cygwin

grep -rl "android.util.Log" <your-source-directory> | xargs sed -i "s/android.util.Log/com.elvishew.xlog.XLog.Log/g"

Mac

grep -rl "android.util.Log" <your-source-directory> | xargs sed -i "" "s/android.util.Log/com.elvishew.xlog.XLog.Log/g"

Android Studio

In ‘Project’ pane, switch to the ‘Project Files’ tab, then right-click on the your source directory.
In the menu, click the ‘Replace in Path…’ option.
In the dialog, fill the ‘Text to find’ with ‘android.util.Log’, and ‘Replace with’ with ‘com.elvishew.xlog.XLog.Log’, and click ‘Find’.

Optionally, instead of replacing all ‘android.util.Log’, you can just use LibCat to intercept all logs logged by android.util.Log and redirect them to XLog’s Printer.

Issues

If you meet any problem when using XLog, or have any suggestion, please feel free to create an issue.
Before creating an issue, please check if there is an existed one.

Thanks

Thanks to Orhan Obut’s logger, it give us many ideas of what a logger can do.

Thanks to Serge Zaitsev’s log, it give us the thought of making xLog compatible with Android Log.

License

Copyright 2015-2021 Elvis Hew

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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