package config import ( "os" "strings" "time" "github.com/rs/zerolog" ) var ( // CurrentLogFile is used for accessing the location of the currently used log file across packages. CurrentLogFile string logFile *os.File logDir string logger zerolog.Logger ) // StartLogger instantiates an instance of our zerolog loggger so we can hook it in our main package. // While this does return a logger, it should not be used for additional retrievals of the logger. Use GetLogger() func StartLogger() zerolog.Logger { logDir = snek.GetString("logger.directory") if !strings.HasSuffix(logDir, "/") { logDir += "/" } if err := os.MkdirAll(logDir, os.ModePerm); err != nil { println("cannot create log directory: " + logDir + "(" + err.Error() + ")") os.Exit(1) } logFileName := "HellPot" if snek.GetBool("logger.use_date_filename") { tn := strings.ReplaceAll(time.Now().Format(time.RFC822), " ", "_") tn = strings.ReplaceAll(logFileName, ":", "-") logFileName = logFileName + "_" + tn } CurrentLogFile = logDir + logFileName + ".log" if logFile, err = os.OpenFile(CurrentLogFile, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0o666); err != nil { println("cannot create log file: " + err.Error()) os.Exit(1) } multi := zerolog.MultiLevelWriter(zerolog.ConsoleWriter{NoColor: NoColor, Out: os.Stdout}, logFile) logger = zerolog.New(multi).With().Timestamp().Logger() return logger } // GetLogger retrieves our global logger object func GetLogger() *zerolog.Logger { // future logic here return &logger }