# tracing-rolling-file
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A rolling file appender with customizable rolling conditions, based on [rolling-file](https://github.com/Axcient/rolling-file-rs).
Includes built-in support for rolling conditions on date/time
(daily, hourly, every minute) and/or size.
Follows a Debian-style naming convention for logfiles,
using basename, basename.1, ..., basename.N where N is
the maximum number of allowed historical logfiles.
This is useful to combine with the [tracing](https://crates.io/crates/tracing) crate and
[tracing_appender::non_blocking::NonBlocking](https://docs.rs/tracing-appender/latest/tracing_appender/non_blocking/index.html) -- use it
as an alternative to [tracing_appender::rolling::RollingFileAppender](https://docs.rs/tracing-appender/latest/tracing_appender/rolling/struct.RollingFileAppender.html).
## Examples
```rust
use tracing_rolling_file::*;
let file_appender = RollingFileAppenderBase::new(
"/var/log/myprogram",
RollingConditionBase::new().daily(),
9
).unwrap();
```
### Builder
To simplify the creation of a `RollingFileAppenderBase`, an instance can be built as per the example below.
```rust
use tracing_rolling_file::*;
let builder = RollingFileAppenderBase::builder();
let appender = builder
.filename(String::from("/var/log/myprogram"))
.max_filecount(10)
.condition_max_file_size(100)
.build()
.unwrap();
```
### Non-blocking support
To combine the `tracing_appender::non_blocking::NonBlocking` functionality, the feature needs to be enabled in Cargo.toml, i.e.
```toml
[dependencies]
tracing-rolling-file = { version = "0.1.3", features = ["non-blocking"] }
```
Once enabled, you can use the method `get_non_blocking_appender` to generate
a non-blocking version of the RollingFileAppenderBase.
```rust
use tracing_rolling_file::*;
let file_appender = RollingFileAppenderBase::new(
"/var/log/myprogram",
RollingConditionBase::new().daily(),
9
)?;
let (non_blocking, _guard) = file_appender.get_non_blocking_appender();
```
## Development
Must pass latest stable clippy, be formatted with nightly rustfmt, and pass unit tests:
```
cargo +nightly fmt
cargo clippy --all-targets
cargo test
```
## License
Dual-licensed under the terms of either the MIT license or the Apache 2.0 license.