So basically minimalLog is a java log library. The focus while coding this was and will be to keep it as simple as possible for the end-user.
Also there should always be a helpful documentation of each function or whatever you can get problems with. If there's not please create an issue.
I would say it's not made for huge applications.
At least not yet. But maybe later (be prepared for version 2!).
Because of having not that much features minimalLog is more for something like applications that don't need that much console logs. But to be honest you can also use it in big projects, but there are few options out there that are definitely better than minimalLog in this case. But it's your choice!
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Download the latest version of minimalLog Following steps are just to make things easier
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If you have more than one file downloaded (e.g. you downloaded the source/javadoc too)
- Move all files to one folder where no other libraries are in (to make things easier)
- Click 'File' in the upper left corner
- Open 'Project Structure'
- Go to 'Libraries'
- Add a new one by clicking the '+'
- Navigate to the directory where the jar(s) are in
- Add the folder where the jar(s)
- You now should have added minimalLog to your project
- Right click the current project
- Click 'Properties'
- Navigate to 'Java Build Path'
- Click 'Add External JARs'
- Navigate to the directory minimalLog is in
- Add minimalLog
- You now should be able to use minimalLog
Feel free to add installation-guides
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With minimalLog you can declare one or more specific and configurable log types.
Basically there are 2 different main types that can be configured by themselves too:
- UncoloredLog
- ColoredLog
These two are pretty much the same except that (how the name already says) UncoloredLog does not support colors.
Note: colors are not shown in the default windows command prompt. For showing colors on windows you will need something like ConEmu.
When logging something into the console you can choose between 5 options:
- information
- notification
- warning
- error
- exceptionHandler (only for exceptions)
The difference between the first 4 only is the text-type in form of a prefix shown in the console log and the default color in ColoredLog. All of them take a string as parameter which will be printed out in the console. The UncoloredLog and ColoredLog have the same text. The only difference is that ColoredLog adds ANSI escape codes to the prefix and text (not to the timestamp).
The exceptionHandler just takes the Exception e as input and prints out the error message and the stacktrace.
- Toggle timestamp
- Format timestamp how you like with SimpleDateFormat
- Change divider between text-type and text (typeDiv)
- Change divider between timestamp and text-type (timestampDiv)
- ColoredLog specials
- Change colors for different text-types
package com.drainyyy.github.minimalLog;
import java.lang.Exception;
import com.github.drainyyyy.minimalLog.ColoredLog;
import com.github.drainyyyy.minimalLog.Colors;
import com.github.drainyyyy.minimalLog.UncoloredLog;
public class Main {
private static UncoloredLog uLog1 = new UncoloredLog(">"); //without timestamp
private static UncoloredLog uLog2 = new UncoloredLog(">", new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy ~ HH:mm:ss"), "|"); //with timestamp
private static ColoredLog cLog1 = new ColoredLog(">"); //without timestamp, default colors
private static ColoredLog cLog2 = new ColoredLog(">", new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy ~ HH:mm:ss"), "|"); //with timestamp, default colors
/*
without timestamp
configured colors:
- information: cyan
- notification: red
- warning: yellow
- error: blue
- exceptionHandlerText: green
- exceptionHandlerKeywords: yellow
*/
private static ColoredLog cLog3 = new ColoredLog(">", Colors.cyan, Colors.red, Colors.yellow, Colors.blue, Colors.green, Colors.yellow);
/*
with timestamp
configured colors:
- information: cyan
- notification: red
- warning: yellow
- error: blue
- exceptionHandlerText: green
- exceptionHandlerKeywords: yellow
*/
private static ColoredLog cLog4 = new ColoredLog(">", new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy ~ HH:mm:ss"), "|",
Colors.cyan, Colors.red, Colors.yellow, Colors.blue, Colors.green, Colors.yellow);
private static ColoredLog cLogErr1 = new ColoredLog(">", new SimpleDateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy ~ HH:mm:ss"), "|"); //with timestamp, default colors
/*
without timestamp
configured colors:
- information: cyan
- notification: red
- warning: yellow
- error: blue
- exceptionHandlerText: green
- exceptionHandlerKeywords: yellow
*/
private static ColoredLog cLogErr2 = new ColoredLog(">", Colors.cyan, Colors.red, Colors.yellow, Colors.blue, Colors.green, Colors.yellow);
public static void main(String[] args) {
uLog1.information("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
uLog2.notification("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
cLog1.warning("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
cLog2.error("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
cLog3.information("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
cLog4.notification("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit");
try {
throw new Exception("200");
} catch (Exception e) {
cLogErr1.exceptionHandler(e);
cLogErr2.exceptionHandler(e);
}
}
}- Information (without timestamp) [uLog1]
- Notification (with timestamp) [uLog2]
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INFO > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit
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20.04.2019 ~ 00:51:11 | NOTIF > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit- Warning (without timestamp, default colors) [cLog1]
- Error (with timestamp, default colors [cLog2]
- Information (without timestamp, custom colors) [cLog3]
- Notification (with timestamp, custom colors) [cLog4]
- ExceptionHandler (with timestamp, default colors) [cLogErr1]
- ExceptionHandler (without timestamp, custom colors) [cLogErr2]
A list of all colors and what the default colors are is in the ColoredLog description.
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Note: In the above examples '>' (the type divider), '|' (the timestamp divider) and the date/time format can be changed.
Note: In the windows default command prompt colors are not shown. For seeing colors you need something like ConEmu.
ColoredLog is pretty much the same as UncoloredLog, except that ColoredLog (how the name says) is colored.
The text is split into 4 editable parts. The timestamp, ANSI color-code, text-type and text:
timestamp ANSI color-code text-type text
[20.04.2019 ~ 00:51:11 |] <ansiColorCode> [NOTIF >] [Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit] <ansiResetColorCode>The timestamp can be added when creating an instance of ColoredLog.
The color-code is defined from the color given (default/custom).
The text-type is given when using the respective method with the instance of ColoredLog.
Text is the parameter of the method you use (cLog.information/cLog.notification/cLog.warning/cLog.error/cLog.exceptionHandler)
- Default colors
- information: blue
- notification: green
- warning: magenta
- error: red
- exceptionHandlerText (errorMessage, stackTraceElements): red
- exceptionHandlerKeywords ('EXCEPTION', 'StackTrace'): magenta
- All available colors
- black
- red
- green
- blue
- magenta
- yellow
- cyan
When creating an instance of ColoredLog you can set custom colors (only the available ones). Also you can choose if you want to display a timestamp and when yes you can set a custom format with SimpleDateFormat.
The divider between the timestamp and text-type (timestampDiv ('|' in the examples)) and the divider between the text-type and text (typeDiv ('>' in the examples)) can be chosen manually.
UncoloredLog shows the same as ColoredLog, but without colors. So read through ColoredLog to understand how the logs work and then just leave the ANSI color-codes out.
The exceptionHandler method is a bit special.
It only takes the Exception as input and prints the error message and every stacktrace-element.