One of the most helpful parts of Iguana is the logging system. It’s super easy to build intuitive logging for your own components using it. Here are a few pointers:

iguana.log* give us calls to the logging system

So this is an example of a log message:

iguana.logInfo("#custom #me This is a custom log")

You can use #hashtags in your log messages

This makes it a little easier to view the logs and filter on the tags by clicking on them:

See the #custom. If you were to click on it, this is what you would see:

Cool eh? Very nice way of filtering your log data. Switching on Matches only:

I guess we probably over designed it have logInfo and logWarning etc. in the system

That’s a bit of hang over from Iguana 6 days.

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We may simplify things in the future and make all these log commands like logInfo etc. just be aliases for log.

#hashtags are a simpler more flexible way of doing things.

You can relate messages together using message id that is returned from queue.push{data=Message}

This is how you do it:

local MessageId = queue.push{data="A message"}
iguana.logInfo("This is associated with taht message.", MessageId)

That’s it! Simple and powerful.

Custom Logging

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