stump

Stump

A simple log library, for when you don't really care to have super fancy logs.

Stump has four main log functions, Log, VLog, Error and Fatal.

Log is a basic log that always is shown.

VLog is only shown when stump.Verbose is set to true.

Error prints a prefix of ERROR: before your log message, the prefix is configurable by setting stump.ErrorPrefix.

Fatal is an error log that also calls os.Exit right afterwards.

Installation

$ go get -u github.com/whyrusleeping/stump

Usage

import "github.com/whyrusleeping/stump"

func main() {
	stump.Log("Hello World!")

	name := GetName()
	stump.Log("My name is %s, do you like it?", name)

	err := DoThing()
	if err != nil {
		stump.Error(err)
		// or
		stump.Error("Got an error doing thing: ", err)
		// or
		stump.Error("Got error '%s' doing thing.", err)
	}

	err = DoImportantThing()
	if err != nil {
		Fatal(err)
	}
}

Tips

While generally frowned upon, I like importing stump into my packages namespace like so:

import . "github.com/whyrusleeping/stump"

This allows you to call all the logging functions without the package prefix. (eg. just Log("hello") instead of stump.Log("hello"))

License

MIT