• BCS (13/13) Aug 13 2008 (lets try this again in the correct NG :)
• Christopher Wright (7/28) Aug 13 2008 This is really ugly, but it does a good thing.
• BCS (11/45) Aug 13 2008 I wanted very light dependencies, I actually considered going with print...

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

(lets try this again in the correct NG :)

I have posted a new library to scrapple.

http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/log_api

This library allows simple wrapping of function calls with logging of file 
name/line number of call, function name and argument/return values.

The intended use for this lib is for debugging the external API's. For example 


I wrote it because I was having issues with a mysql wrapper lib and wanted 
to known what api calls were being made.

To use it, replace the calls to be logged with wrapped calls:

ulong r = mysql_real_escape_string(connection, ret.ptr, string.ptr,
string.length); 
ulong r = TraceAPI!("mysql_real_escape_string)(__FILE__,__LINE__,connection, 
ret.ptr, string.ptr, string.length);

a little fun with regex and you can have a whole file done in about a minute

Christopher Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:

BCS wrote:
 (lets try this again in the correct NG :)
 
 I have posted a new library to scrapple.
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/log_api
 
 This library allows simple wrapping of function calls with logging of 
 file name/line number of call, function name and argument/return values.
 
 The intended use for this lib is for debugging the external API's. For 
 example
 
 I wrote it because I was having issues with a mysql wrapper lib and 
 wanted to known what api calls were being made.
 
 To use it, replace the calls to be logged with wrapped calls:
 
 ulong r = mysql_real_escape_string(connection, ret.ptr, string.ptr, 
 string.length); ulong r = 
 TraceAPI!("mysql_real_escape_string)(__FILE__,__LINE__,connection, 
 ret.ptr, string.ptr, string.length);

This is really ugly, but it does a good thing.

Maybe you could incorporate jive.stacktrace (or one of the hacked 
versions that actually works) so you don't have to use __FILE__, 
__LINE__? Though that's probably more than you want to do.

Also, have you tried alias parameters rather than strings? It results in 
more sensible error messages.

BCS <ao pathlink.com> writes:

Reply to Christopher,

 BCS wrote:
 
 (lets try this again in the correct NG :)
 
 I have posted a new library to scrapple.
 
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/log_api
 
 This library allows simple wrapping of function calls with logging of
 file name/line number of call, function name and argument/return
 values.
 
 The intended use for this lib is for debugging the external API's.
 For example
 
 I wrote it because I was having issues with a mysql wrapper lib and
 wanted to known what api calls were being made.
 
 To use it, replace the calls to be logged with wrapped calls:
 
 ulong r = mysql_real_escape_string(connection, ret.ptr, string.ptr,
 string.length); ulong r =
 TraceAPI!("mysql_real_escape_string)(__FILE__,__LINE__,connection,
 ret.ptr, string.ptr, string.length);
 

 This is really ugly, but it does a good thing.
 

Ah, Yah. that about sums it up.

 Maybe you could incorporate jive.stacktrace (or one of the hacked
 versions that actually works) so you don't have to use __FILE__,
 __LINE__? Though that's probably more than you want to do.
 

I wanted very light dependencies, I actually considered going with printf 
rather than writef but I can live with that one

Considering if you are smart about it you doesn't need to type the
__FILE__,__LINE__ 
more than once (http://gskinner.com/RegExr/) I can live with that ugliness.

 Also, have you tried alias parameters rather than strings? It results
 in more sensible error messages.
 

Yup that was my first thought, but it didn't work for some reason and the 
string trick did. I was kind of in a Fast, Stupid 'n Works kind of mood. 
I don't recall why it wasn't working but I might take a pass at trying at 
again (feel free to take a crack at it your self, I can get you SVN access 
if you want to commit improvements)