On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Chaps, > > > > I'm after some advice on the best way to handle a logging job. Essentially I > have data which I'm looking to log to a webservice, it would make good sense > I think to use something like the HTTP handler for the python logging API. > > > > The problem comes when the application isn't 'online' as it were, with no > network connection or if the webservice isn't currently available. In this > case I don't want to simply loose all the log data, I want it stored into a > file, I can then run hourly batch/cron tasks to upload to the service when > the system comes back online. > what exactly is this webservice? if you are expecting to have issue with it why not just store locally and run a backup utility to duplicate your logs? > > > How would you manage this? I'm thinking about building my own custom log > handler for the task, which if unable to resolve the webservice will just > log to the file instead, I'm just not sure if there is a better way of > achieving this, what are your thoughts? > if you really need this then I guess it's the best way to "merge" both loggers into the same class. > > > In addition to this, does anyone know which libararys the HTTP handler uses > to make its call? Is it a good one which will recognise if the system has no > network connection or if the server is temporarily unavailable? Is it > asynchronous? yes httplib what else will it use?
One of the things I love about python is that you can just go poke into your installation to see how "the api" does things. the relevant code is in /usr/lib/python2.5/logging/handlers.py:857 for the HTTPHandler and /usr/lib/python2.5/logging/__init__.py:759 for the FileHandler > > > > Thanks for any advice guys, > > > > Robert > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
