A domain filter can be given in the environment variable
'WS_LOG_DOMAINS' or in a command-line options "--log-domains".
The filter is specified as a comma separated case insensitive list,
for example:
./tshark --log-domains=main,capture
Domain data type switches from an enum to a string. There is no
constaint on adding new domains, neither in code or at runtime.
The string format is arbitrary, only positive matches will produce
output.
Experience has shown that:
1. The current logging methods are not very reliable or practical.
A logging bitmask makes little sense as the user-facing interface (who
would want debug but not crtical messages for example?); it's
computer-friendly and user-unfriendly. More importantly the console
log level preference is initialized too late in the startup process
to be used for the logging subsystem and that fact raises a number
of annoying and hard-to-fix usability issues.
2. Coding around G_MESSAGES_DEBUG to comply with our log level mask
and not clobber the user's settings or not create unexpected log misses
is unworkable and generally follows the principle of most surprise.
The fact that G_MESSAGES_DEBUG="all" can leak to other programs using
GLib is also annoying.
3. The non-structured GLib logging API is very opinionated and lacks
configurability beyond replacing the log handler.
4. Windows GUI has some special code to attach to a console,
but it would be nice to abstract away the rest under a single
interface.
5. Using this logger seems to be noticeably faster.
Deprecate the console log level preference and extend our API to
implement a log handler in wsutil/wslog.h to provide easy-to-use,
flexible and dependable logging during all execution phases.
Log levels have a hierarchy, from most verbose to least verbose
(debug to error). When a given level is set everything above that
is also enabled.
The log level can be set with an environment variable or a command
line option (parsed as soon as possible but still later than the
environment). The default log level is "message".
Dissector logging is not included because it is not clear what log
domain they should use. An explosion to thousands of domains is
not desirable and putting everything in a single domain is probably
too coarse and noisy. For now I think it makes sense to let them do
their own thing using g_log_default_handler() and continue using the
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG mechanism with specific domains for each individual
dissector.
In the future a mechanism may be added to selectively enable these
domains at runtime while trying to avoid the problems introduced
by G_MESSAGES_DEBUG.
Remove the editor modeline blocks from the source files in ui that use 4
space indentation by running
perl -i -p0e 's{ \n+ /[ *\n]+ editor \s+ modelines .* shiftwidth= .* \*/ \s+ } {\n}gsix' $( ag -l shiftwidth=4 $( ag -g '\.(c|cpp|h|m|mm)') )
This gives us one source of indentation truth for these files, and it
*shouldn't* affect anyone since
- These files match the default in our top-level .editorconfig.
- The one notable editor that's likely to be used on these files and
*doesn't* support EditorConfig (Qt Creator) defaults to 4 space
indentation.
Move */ to a separate line below the SPDX identifier.
Change-Id: Id1032215449cfccae0933147b45e04b65e0b727f
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/27211
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
The first is deprecated, as per https://spdx.org/licenses/.
Change-Id: I8e21e1d32d09b8b94b93a2dc9fbdde5ffeba6bed
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25661
Petri-Dish: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Petri-Dish: Dario Lombardo <lomato@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I6b05399395bcc35e59b73b4030ba4a05711a7b1a
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25565
Petri-Dish: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>