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Elixir binding for lager
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ExLager
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This package implements a simple wrapper over https://github.com/basho/lager.

It embeds logging calls to ExLager into a module if currently configured logging
level is less or equal than severity of a call. Therefore it doesn't have
any negative impact on performance of a production system when you configure
error level even if you have tons of debug messages.

Information about location of a call (module, function, line, pid) is properly
passed to lager for your convenience so you can easily find the source of a message.
In this aspect using ExLager is equal to using parse transform shipped with
basho lager.

Since ExLager depends on macro implemented in Lager module you have to require it.
Then you call one of logging methods on Lager module. There are seven logging
methods in order of severity:

- debug
- info
- notice
- warning
- error
- critical
- alert
- emergency

Examples:
---------

```elixir
defmodule Test do
require Lager
def debug do
Lager.debug "Hi debug"
end
def info do
Lager.info "Hi error"
end
def notice do
Lager.notice "Hi notice"
end
def warning do
Lager.warning "Hi warning"
end
def error do
Lager.error "Hi error"
end
def critical do
Lager.critical "Hi critical"
end
def alert do
Lager.alert "Hi alert"
end
def emergency do
Lager.emergency "Hi emergency"
end
def test do
debug
info
notice
warning
error
critical
alert
emergency
end
end

Application.start :exlager
Test.test
```

Configuration
-------------
It is possible to configure truncation size and compile time log level.
Being a simple wrapper ExLager doesn't attempt to configure underlying Lager.
You would need to configure it yourself [see](https://github.com/basho/lager) to ensure that:

* lager_truncation_size >= compile_truncation_size
* lager severity level >= compile_log_level
* appropriate handlers are configured

Configuration of ExLager can be done by calling helper functions of Lager from your build system as follows:

```
iex(1)> Lager.compile_log_level(:info)
true
iex(2)> Lager.compile_truncation_size(512)
true
```

If you cannot call those function you can set compiler options:

```
iex(3)> Code.compiler_options exlager_level: :debug
ok
iex(4)> Code.compiler_options exlager_truncation_size: 512
ok
```

If you are mix user you could specify level and truncation_size in *config/config.#{Mix.env}.exs* as follows:

```
use Mix.Config

config :exlager,
level: :debug,
truncation_size: 8096
```

Multiple Sink Support
---------------------
As of Lager 3.x, you can configure multiple sinks to provide different behavior
for different streams of logs. To use a different sink, prepend the name to the
logging calls above. For example, to use the `magic_lager_event` sink, you can
do the following:

```
Lager.info :magic, "magic event"
```