NAME
    Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Handler - Catalyst Plugin for Log::Handler

VERSION
    Version 0.07

SYNOPSIS
        use Catalyst qw(Log::Handler);

    Catalyst configuration (e. g. in YAML format):

        Log::Handler:
            filename: /var/log/myapp.log
            fileopen: 1
            mode: append
            newline: 1

    To log a message:

        $c->log->debug('Greetings from the people of earth');
        $c->log->info ('This is an info message.');
        $c->log->warn ('This is the last warning.');
        $c->log->error('This is an error message.');
        $c->log->fatal('This is a fatal message.');
        $c->handler->crit('This is a critical message.');

DESCRIPTION
    If your Catalyst project logs many messages, logging via standard error
    to Apache's error log is not very clean: The log messages are mixed with
    other web applications' noise; and especially if you use mod_fastcgi,
    every line will be prepended with a long prefix.

    An alternative is logging to a file. But then you have to make sure that
    multiple processes won't corrupt the log file. The module Log::Handler
    by Jonny Schulz does exactly this, because it supports message-wise
    flocking.

    This module is a wrapper for said Log::Handler.

METHODS
  debug, info, warn, error, fatal
    These methods map to the Log::Handler methods with the same name, except
    for fatal, which maps to emergency, and warn, which maps to warning.
    This is because Catalyst and Log::Handler don't use the same names for
    log levels.

    To log a message with a level that is no common Catalyst log level, you
    can use the handler method (see SYNOPSIS).

  is_debug, is_info, ...
    These methods map to the Log::Handler methods would_log_debug,
    would_log_info, ...

  handler
    Returns the Log::Handler object.

CONFIGURATION
    All configuration options are passed verbatim to Log::Handler::new. See
    Log::Handler for explanation of the options. I think that the example
    configuration at the beginning of this document is very well-suited for
    a Catalyst application. (Except for the file name, of course.)

    To be consistent with Catalyst::Log, the options minlevel and maxlevel
    default to 0 and 7, respectively, i. e. all messages are logged. The
    other defaults are not touched.

    If you use Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader, please load this module after
    Catalyst::Plugin::ConfigLoader.

AUTHOR
    Christoph Bussenius <pepe(at)cpan.org>

    If you use this module, I'll be glad if you drop me a note. You should
    mention this module's name (or the short form CPLH) in the subject of
    your mails, in order to make sure they won't get lost in all the spam.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2007 Christoph Bussenius.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

