Using Logger in C++ class

[jshanab]

I am just getting started using Poco on a project. They used it a lot at my previous job (Schneider Electric)
The performance recommendation is to cache the reference and reuse it, but I am not sure how to do that when it returns a ref and not a pointer.
My normal mode would be to declare a boost::shared_ptr<logger> in the class members and then assign it in the ctor. So How do I use a reference in a c++ class without calling getLogger over and over again?

Get it in main and pass it into the CTOR?

PS why is the example for a C++ class a C-like example.

[rakesh]

Why not declare a static Logger reference in your class and initialise it like any other static instance?

In your header: static Logger& logger;
In your implementation: Logger& MyClass::logger = Logger::get( "MyClassLogger" );

[jshanab]

That will work fine.
In the mean time i have used log4cplus that I already had built for another project. I liek the configuration file and the act that it can react to changes in that file. Does the poco logger class have that kind of functionality ? ie I can change the loglevel of classes and redirect the logs without shutting down my app

[guenter]

You can also have a non-static reference to your class's Logger:

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class MyClass
{
public:
    MyClass():
        _logger(Poco::Logger::get("MyClass"))
    {
        // ...
    }

    // ...

private:
    Poco::Logger& _logger;
};


You can change the log level of an existing logger with setLevel(). There are two variants of this method - one that works on the instance level (_logger.setLevel(Poco::Message::PRIO_INFORMATION)) and a static one that works on a complete hierarchy, e.g. setLogger("MyLogger", Poco::Message::PRIO_INFORMATION).
This is multithreading-safe. You could also change the channel assigned to a logger with setChannel(), but this is not multithreading-safe and not recommended.