Class Poco::PatternFormatter

Library: Foundation
Package: Logging
Header: Poco/PatternFormatter.h

Description

This Formatter allows for custom formatting of log messages based on format patterns.

The format pattern is used as a template to format the message and is copied character by character except for the following special characters, which are replaced by the corresponding value.

%s - message source
%t - message text
%l - message priority level (1 .. 7)
%p - message priority (Fatal, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Information, Debug, Trace)
%q - abbreviated message priority (F, C, E, W, N, I, D, T)
%P - message process identifier
%T - message thread name
%I - message thread identifier (numeric)
%N - node or host name
%U - message source file path (empty string if not set)
%u - message source line number (0 if not set)
%w - message date/time abbreviated weekday (Mon, Tue, ...)
%W - message date/time full weekday (Monday, Tuesday, ...)
%b - message date/time abbreviated month (Jan, Feb, ...)
%B - message date/time full month (January, February, ...)
%d - message date/time zero-padded day of month (01 .. 31)
%e - message date/time day of month (1 .. 31)
%f - message date/time space-padded day of month ( 1 .. 31)
%m - message date/time zero-padded month (01 .. 12)
%n - message date/time month (1 .. 12)
%o - message date/time space-padded month ( 1 .. 12)
%y - message date/time year without century (70)
%Y - message date/time year with century (1970)
%H - message date/time hour (00 .. 23)
%h - message date/time hour (00 .. 12)
%a - message date/time am/pm
%A - message date/time AM/PM
%M - message date/time minute (00 .. 59)
%S - message date/time second (00 .. 59)
%i - message date/time millisecond (000 .. 999)
%c - message date/time centisecond (0 .. 9)
%F - message date/time fractional seconds/microseconds (000000 - 999999)
%z - time zone differential in ISO 8601 format (Z or +NN.NN)
%Z - time zone differential in RFC format (GMT or +NNNN)
%E - epoch time (UTC, seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970)
%[name] - the value of the message parameter with the given name
%% - percent sign

Inheritance

Direct Base Classes: Formatter

All Base Classes: Configurable, Formatter, RefCountedObject

Member Summary

Member Functions: format, getPriorityName, getProperty, setProperty

Inherited Functions: duplicate, format, getProperty, referenceCount, release, setProperty

Constructors

PatternFormatter

PatternFormatter();

Creates a PatternFormatter. The format pattern must be specified with a call to setProperty.

PatternFormatter

PatternFormatter(
const std::string & format
);

Creates a PatternFormatter that uses the given format pattern.

Destructor

~PatternFormatter

~PatternFormatter();

Destroys the PatternFormatter.

Member Functions

format

void format(
const Message & msg,
std::string & text
);

Formats the message according to the specified format pattern and places the result in text.

See also: Poco::Formatter::format()

getProperty

std::string getProperty(
const std::string & name
) const;

Returns the value of the property with the given name or throws a PropertyNotSupported exception if the given name is not recognized.

See also: Poco::Formatter::getProperty()

setProperty

void setProperty(
const std::string & name,
const std::string & value
);

Sets the property with the given name to the given value.

The following properties are supported:

pattern: The format pattern. See the PatternFormatter class for details.
times: Specifies whether times are adjusted for local time or taken as they are in UTC. Supported values are "local" and "UTC".

If any other property name is given, a PropertyNotSupported exception is thrown.

See also: Poco::Formatter::setProperty()