The name of the log file which you want messages appended to. Either this or the filename_format option must be provided.

A format which can be used to generate a filename to write messages to. This can include any of the strftime() character sequences, e.g. %Y for the four digit year, %m for a two digit month number, %d for a two digit day of the month, etc.

my $log = Badger::Log::File->new({
    filename_format  => '/var/log/badger-%Y-%m-%d.log',
    keep_open => 1,
});

If, like me, you find it hard to remember the strftime() character sequences, then you can use an alternate format where the elements of the date and/or time are encoded as upper case words embedded in angle brackets. e.g. badger-<DATE>.log, or badger-<YEAR>-<MONTH>.log.

The words that can be embedded this way, and their corresponding strftime() character sequences are:

DATE    => '%Y-%m-%d'       # e.g. 2022-08-24
TIME    => '%H-%M-%S'       # e.g. 13:54:07
YEAR    => '%Y'             # e.g. 2022
MONTH   => '%m'             # e.g. 08
DAY     => '%d'             # e.g. 24
HOURS   => '%H'             # e.g. 13
MINUTES => '%M'             # e.g. 54
SECONDS => '%S'             # e.g. 07

The module will automatically create a new logfile when the filename_format generates a filename that is different to any previous value.

An optional reference to a Badger::Filesystem object, or the name of a filesystem class having a file() method similar to that in Badger::Filesystem. This defaults to the Badger::Filesystem class.

A flag indicating if the log file should be kept open between calls to logging methods. The default value is 0 meaning that the file will be opened for each message and closed again afterwards. Set it to any true value to have the file kept open.

This method redefines the log() method in Badger::Log to write logging messages to the log file.

Custom initialiser method which calls the base class init_log() method followed by the init_file() method.

Custom initialiser method which handles the configuration and initialisation of the file-specific parts of the logger.

Expands the format defined by the filename_format configuration option to a filename using the current date and time.

If filename_format has not been specified then it returns the value of the filename configuration option.

Calls expand_filename() to expand any filename_format and compares it to the current filename (which may have been generated by a previous call to this method).

If they are the same then it returns undef. Otherwise it saves the new filename to the internal filename value and returns it.

Returns a reference to a Badger::Filesystem::File object based on the filename which can either be defined as a static configuration option or will be generated by the expand_filename() method from the filename_format configuration option.

Returns a filehandle for the current logfile. If the filename has changed since the last call this method (determined by calling filename_changed()) then any existing filehandle is closed (by calling release()) and the new file is opened to return a new filehandle (by calling acquire()).

This method acquires a file handle (an IO::File object) for the specified filename, opened ready for appending log messages.

The method releases a previously acquired file handle. i.e. it closes the log file.