"""Event tracker backend that saves events to a python logger.""" from __future__ import absolute_import import json import logging from django.conf import settings from track.backends import BaseBackend from track.utils import DateTimeJSONEncoder log = logging.getLogger('track.backends.logger') application_log = logging.getLogger('track.backends.application_log') # pylint: disable=invalid-name class LoggerBackend(BaseBackend): """Event tracker backend that uses a python logger. Events are logged to the INFO level as JSON strings. """ def __init__(self, name, **kwargs): """Event tracker backend that uses a python logger. :Parameters: - `name`: identifier of the logger, which should have been configured using the default python mechanisms. """ super(LoggerBackend, self).__init__(**kwargs) self.event_logger = logging.getLogger(name) def send(self, event): try: event_str = json.dumps(event, cls=DateTimeJSONEncoder) except UnicodeDecodeError: application_log.exception( "UnicodeDecodeError Event_data: %r", event ) raise # TODO: remove trucation of the serialized event, either at a # higher level during the emittion of the event, or by # providing warnings when the events exceed certain size. event_str = event_str[:settings.TRACK_MAX_EVENT] self.event_logger.info(event_str)