Suggestion: Allow instantiation with connection string
DannyBen opened this issue · comments
How do we feel about allowing instantiation with a connection string?
I find myself instantiating a RemoteSyslogLogger
by using several lines of code, instead of something simpler - like:
logger = RemoteSyslogLogger.new "syslog://system:program@127.0.0.1:514"
This will not only make things shorter and easier, but will have the added bonus of allowing to simply use an environment variable as the connection string, like we do with redis, database and others.
logger = RemoteSyslogLogger.new ENV['SYSLOG_URL']
Here is my monkey patch proof of concept:
require 'remote_syslog_logger'
require 'uri'
module RemoteSyslogLogger
class << self
alias_method :original_new, :new
def new(*args)
args = ['syslog://localhost:514'] if args.empty?
if args.count == 1 and args.first.is_a? String
uri = URI args.first
original_new uri.host, uri.port, local_hostname: uri.user, program: uri.password
else
original_new *args
end
end
end
end
logger0 = RemoteSyslogLogger.new '127.0.0.1', '514', local_hostname: 'myhost', program: 'myprog'
logger1 = RemoteSyslogLogger.new "syslog://system:program@127.0.0.1:514"
logger2 = RemoteSyslogLogger.new "syslog://127.0.0.1:514"
logger3 = RemoteSyslogLogger.new
logger0.info "Tadaaa 0"
logger1.info "Tadaaa 1"
logger2.info "Tadaaa 2"
logger3.info "Tadaaa 3"