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title: Logging and Error Handling summary: Trap, fire and report diagnostic logs, user exceptions, warnings and errors.
Logging and Error Handling
SilverStripe uses Monolog for both error handling and logging. It comes with two default configurations: one for development environments, and another for test or live environments. On development environments, SilverStripe will deal harshly with any warnings or errors: a full call-stack is shown and execution stops for anything, giving you early warning of a potential issue to handle.
Raising errors and logging diagnostic information.
For informational and debug logs, you can use the Logger directly. The Logger is a PSR-3 compatible LoggerInterface and
can be accessed via the Injector
:
use SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector;
Injector::inst()->get(LoggerInterface::class)->info('User has logged in: ID #' . Security::getCurrentUser()->ID);
Injector::inst()->get(LoggerInterface::class)->debug('Query executed: ' . $sql);
Although you can raise more important levels of alerts in this way, we recommend using PHP's native error systems for these instead.
For notice-level and warning-level issues, you should use user_error to throw errors where appropriate. These will not halt execution but will send a message to the PHP error log.
public function delete()
{
if ($this->alreadyDelete) {
user_error("Delete called on already deleted object", E_USER_NOTICE);
return;
}
// ...
}
public function getRelatedObject()
{
if (!$this->RelatedObjectID) {
user_error("Can't find a related object", E_USER_WARNING);
return;
}
// ...
}
For errors that should halt execution, you should use Exceptions. Normally, Exceptions will halt the flow of executuion, but they can be caught with a try/catch clause.
throw new \LogicException("Query failed: " . $sql);
Accessing the logger via dependency injection.
It can quite verbose to call Injector::inst()->get(LoggerInterface::class)
all the time. More importantly,
it also means that you're coupling your code to global state, which is a bad design practise. A better
approach is to use depedency injection to pass the logger in for you. The Injector
can help with this. The most straightforward is to specify a dependencies
config setting, like this:
use SilverStripe\Control\Controller;
class MyController extends Controller
{
private static $dependencies = [
'logger' => '%$Psr\Log\LoggerInterface',
];
// This will be set automatically, as long as MyController is instantiated via Injector
public $logger;
protected function init()
{
$this->logger->debug("MyController::init() called");
parent::init();
}
}
In other contexts, such as testing or batch processing, logger can be set to a different value by the code calling MyController.
Error Levels
-
E_USER_WARNING: Err on the side of over-reporting warnings. Throwing warnings provides a means of ensuring that developers know:
- Deprecated functions / usage patterns
- Strange data formats
- Things that will prevent an internal function from continuing. Throw a warning and return null.
-
E_USER_ERROR: Throwing one of these errors is going to take down the production site. So you should only throw E_USER_ERROR if it's going to be dangerous or impossible to continue with the request.
Configuring error logging
You can configure your logging using Monolog handlers. The handlers should be provided int the Logger.handlers
configuration setting. Below we have a couple of common examples, but Monolog comes with many different handlers
for you to try.
Sending emails
To send emails, you can use Monolog's NativeMailerHandler, like this:
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface:
calls:
MailHandler: [ pushHandler, [ %$MailHandler ] ]
MailHandler:
class: Monolog\Handler\NativeMailerHandler
constructor:
- me@example.com
- There was an error on your test site
- me@example.com
- error
properties:
ContentType: text/html
Formatter: %$SilverStripe\Logging\DetailedErrorFormatter
The first section 4 lines passes a new handler to Logger::pushHandler()
from the named service MailHandler
. The
next 10 lines define what the service is.
The calls key, MailHandler
, can be anything you like: its main purpose is to let other configuration disable it
(see below).
Logging to a file
To log to a file, you can use Monolog's StreamHandler, like this:
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface:
calls:
LogFileHandler: [ pushHandler, [ %$LogFileHandler ] ]
LogFileHandler:
class: Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler
constructor:
- "../silverstripe.log"
- "info"
The log file will be relative to the framework/ path, so "../silverstripe.log" will create a file in your project root.
Disabling the default handler
You can disable a handler by removing its pushHandlers call from the calls option of the Logger service definition.
The handler key of the default handler is DisplayErrorHandler
, so you can disable it like this:
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface:
calls:
DisplayErrorHandler: %%remove%%
Setting a different configuration for dev
In order to set different logging configuration on different environment types, we rely on the environment-specific configuration features that the config system proviers. For example, here we have different configuration for dev and non-dev.
---
Name: dev-errors
Only:
environment: dev
---
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface:
calls:
pushDisplayErrorHandler: [ pushHandler, [ %$DisplayErrorHandler ]]
DisplayErrorHandler:
class: SilverStripe\Logging\HTTPOutputHandler
constructor:
- "notice"
properties:
Formatter: %$SilverStripe\Logging\DetailedErrorFormatter
CLIFormatter: %$SilverStripe\Logging\DetailedErrorFormatter
---
Name: live-errors
Except:
environment: dev
---
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface:
calls:
pushFileLogHandler: [ pushHandler, [ %$LogFileHandler ]]
pushDisplayErrorHandler: [ pushHandler, [ %$DisplayErrorHandler ]]
LogFileHandler:
class: Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler
constructor:
- "../silverstripe.log"
- "notice"
properties:
Formatter: %$Monolog\Formatter\HtmlFormatter
ContentType: text/html
DisplayErrorHandler:
class: SilverStripe\Logging\HTTPOutputHandler
constructor:
- "error"
properties:
Formatter: %$SilverStripe\Logging\DebugViewFriendlyErrorFormatter
SilverStripe\Logging\DebugViewFriendlyErrorFormatter:
class: SilverStripe\Logging\DebugViewFriendlyErrorFormatter
properties:
Title: "There has been an error"
Body: "The website server has not been able to respond to your request"
Replacing default implementations
For most application, Monolog and its default error handler should be fine, as you can get a lot of flexibility simply by changing that handlers that are used. However, some situations will call for replacing the default components with others.
Replacing the logger
Monolog comes by default with SilverStripe, but you may use another PSR-3 compliant logger, if you wish. To do this,
set the Injector.Logger
configuration parameter, providing a new injector definition. For example:
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
ErrorHandler:
class: Logging\Logger
constructor:
- 'alternative-logger'
If you do this, you will need to supply your own handlers, and the Logger.handlers
configuration parameter will
be ignored.
Replacing the error handler
The Injector service ErrorHandler
is responsible for initialising the error handler. By default it
- Create a
SilverStripe\Logging\MonologErrorHandler
object. - Attach the registered service
Psr\Log\LoggerInterface
to it, to start the error handler.
Core.php will call start()
on this method, to start the error handler.
This error handler is flexible enough to work with any PSR-3 logging implementation, but sometimes you will want to use
another. To replace this, you should registered a new service, ErrorHandlerLoader
. For example:
SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injector:
ErrorHandler:
class: MyApp\CustomErrorHandlerLoader
You should register something with a start()
method.
Differences from SilverStripe 3
In SilverStripe 3, logging was based on the Zend Log module. Customisations were added using SS_Log::add_writer()
.
This function no longer works, and any Zend Log writers will need to be replaced with Monolog handlers. Fortunately,
a range of handlers are available, both in the core package and in add-ons. See the
Monolog documentation for more information.