logmatic-android

Link to the Logmatic.io documentation

Client-side Android logging library for Logmatic.io.

Features

• Use the library as a logger. Everything is forwarded to Logmatic.io as JSON documents.
• Custom fields, meta and extra attributes
• Automatic bulk
• Network and battery life optimized

Quick Start

Load and initialize logger

Install via jCenter

Logmatic-android is a pure android-lib. We release it to the jCenter repository, so you just have to add the library as dependency as shown below. Edit the build.gradle file of your module.

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'io.logmatic:android-log:0.1'
    ...
}

Initialization

You can start the logger whenever you want. The onCreate method of the main activity is probably a good choice in order to use logging as soon as possible.

Set your API key, add optional info if needed before build the logger.

Here is an example

import io.logmatic.android.Logger;
import io.logmatic.android.LoggerBuilder;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private Logger logger;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // init a new instance using your APIKey
        logger = new LoggerBuilder()
                .init("YOUR-API-KEY")
                .withName("my-application-name")
                .build();

        // OPTIONAL
        // Add extra fields for all events fired to Logmatic.io
        logger.addField("string","some piece of text");
        logger.addField("int",1.0);
        logger.addField("float",1.337);
        logger.addField("a_date",new Date());

Log some events

Fire your own events

To log some events, you simply call logger's methods.

        // log an event (info)
        logger.i("This is a first info event from an android device");

To clearly explain what happens here, in this exact situation where everything is configured as above the Logger send the following JSON content to Logmatic.io's API.:

{
    "date": "2016-05-16T13:46:06.338Z",
    "appname": "my-application-name",
    "severity": "INFO",
    "message": "This is a first info event from an android device",

    // OPTIONAL
    "string": "some piece of text",
    "int": 1,
    "float": 1.337,
    "a_date": "2016-05-16T13:46:05.980Z"
}

You have the possibility to attach a context to your event. The context object must be serialisable to a JsonObject. The simplest way to use it, is to attach a Map as is illustrated below:

        Map<String, Object> context = new HashMap();
        context.put("session", getSessionId());
        context.put("emails", Arrays.toList("1@foo.com", "2@bar.io", "3@logmatic.io"));
        logger.d("Another event with a context.", context);
.
    }

The output will be:

{
    "date": "2016-05-16T13:46:06.338Z",
    "appname": "my-application-name",
    "severity": "DEBUG",
    "message": "Another event with a context.",
    "emails": ["1@foo.com", "2@bar.io", "3@logmatic.io"],
    "session": "2cf23b5b6a54614c"
}

Retrieve your logger anywhere

The LoggerRegistry class helps you to reuse the logger in another activity or class.

    // Somewhere in your project

    // use it if your never set the logger name
    private Logger logger = LoggerRegistry.getDefaultLogger();

    // or that if you set the name
    private Logger logger = LoggerRegistry.getLogger("my-application-name");

API

You have to build your logger with the LoggerBuilder helper class. At minimum, you have to set your API Key.

        // init a new instance using your APIKey
        logger = new LoggerBuilder()
                .init("YOUR-API-KEY")
                .build();

By default, the lib logs all events to the Logcat leggay logger. You can disable it during the build.

        // init a new instance using your APIKey
        logger = new LoggerBuilder()
                .init("YOUR-API-KEY")
                .disableLegacyLogging()
                .build();

It's the same for the timestamping', our lib adds the field date to all events. However, you might be want to disable it for your tests.

        // init a new instance using your APIKey
        logger = new LoggerBuilder()
                .init("YOUR-API-KEY")
                .disableTimestamping()
                .build();

As reminder, here are the exhautivie method list offered by the Logmatic-android lib.

LoggerBuilder

Method	Description	Example
init(api_key)	Initialize the logger with a Logmatic API Key
withName()	Set the logger and the application name. This method customize the extra field appname. By default, appname is android	"appname": "my-application-name"
disableTimestamping()	Remove the date field from all events
disableLegacyLogging()	By default, the lib uses Logcat as logger, if the method is called, only logs to Logmatic.io are kept
addField(key, value)	Add and extra field to all events. The value's type will be kept	"key": "value"
build()	Build a new logger instance with all options set

Logger

Method	Description	Example
v(message)	Log as verbose with a piece of text	logger.v("my message")
v(message, object)	Log as verbose with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.v("my message", context)
d(message)	Log as debug with a piece of text	logger.d("my message")
d(message, object)	Log as debug with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.d("my message", context)
i(message)	Log as info with a piece of text	logger.i("my message")
i(message, object)	Log as info with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.i("my message", context)
w(message)	Log as warning with a piece of text	logger.w("my message")
w(message, object)	Log as warning with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.w("my message", context)
e(message)	Log as error with a piece of text	logger.e("my message")
e(message, object)	Log as error with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.e("my message", context)
wtf(message)	Log as error with a piece of text	logger.wtf("my message")
wtf(message, object)	Log as error with a piece of text and a custom context	logger.wtf("my message", context)
addField(key, value)	add and extra field to all events. The value's type will be kept	logger.addField("key", 123)
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