[erlang-questions] Integrating lager into our app

[Martin Koroudjiev]

Thank you very much for the explanation.

Regards,
Martin

On 1/21/2016 5:12 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote:
> What the message is telling you is that lager:debug() is not a
> function. Indeed, if you read the source of the lager module, it is not.
>
> The parse_transform is needed to inject code into the spot where you
> call lager:debug() and replace it with real calls. It is designed this
> way so as to provide an unsurprising interface to the developer
> (logging at specific severity levels), and so that it can filter out
> unconsumable log messages at the callsite rather than filtering them
> out in the gen_event that receives the log messages. Essentially, the
> code injection transforms the function name ('debug' in this case)
> into the severity level, adds some metadata to the message (line,
> module, pid, etc), and then does a few checks to verify that the
> message is loggable. For instance, it will check whether the log sink
> process is running, and that there exists at least one output handler
> that is consuming that severity or lower, or that there is an existing
> trace that matches. Only *then* will it log the message.
>
> I would recommend using rebar3 or similar tools that can apply the
> parse_transform across all of your code, instead of calling erlc directly.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Martin Koroudjiev
> <mrtndimitrov@REDACTED <mailto:mrtndimitrov@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I am trying to include lager into our application but I am having
>     problems. I include the lager ebin directory on startup with: -pa
>     "../lib/lager-2.0.3/ebin"
>     Then I start lager with: lager:start().
>     I define a constant as: -define(dbg(Fmt), lager:debug(Fmt)).
>     But when I try to use it in the code:
>     ?dbg("Hello").
>     it says: ** exception error: undefined function lager:debug/1
>
>     I've checked lager's help page on github and saw that a
>     parse_transform
>     must be set to lager_transform. Why is this needed?
>
>     And how to actually do it? I compile my source files with erlc and
>     pass
>     the transform option with +"{parse_transform, lager_transform}"
>     but then
>     the code doesn't compile because lager_transform module is not present
>     at that time.
>
>     Thank you,
>     Martin
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