Dancer::Logger(3pm)

💖 Dancer::Logger — the manual, but make it slay 💖

Okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about Dancer::Logger (3pm), the common interface for logging in Dancer. Yes that's the whole vibe. Logging. And it's iconic.

Version: 1.3522 — yes queen, we're on that version, no cap. ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what even is this module? It's literally the wrapper that provides support for different logger engines. That's it. That's the whole job. It's giving middle-management, but in a cute way — it holds the engines together so you don't have to. 🫶

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🌸 USAGE 🌸

✨ Default engine ✨

The setting logger defines which logger engine to use. That's the one that decides everything.

⚠️ Not me being dramatic but: if this setting is not set, logging will not be available in the application code. Like, at all. Zero. Nada. The vibe check fails. 😭

Dancer comes with the logger engines Dancer::Logger::File and Dancer::Logger::Console, but more are available on the CPAN. So if you want options, bestie, the CPAN has you covered. 💅

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🎀 Configuration 🎀

The logger configuration variable tells Dancer which engine to use. You can change it in two ways, pick your fighter:

Option one — in your config.yml file:

# logging to console
logger: "console"

Option two — right in the application code:

# logging to file
set logger => 'file';

The log format can also be configured — go peek at "logger_format" in Dancer::Logger::Abstract for the details. Obsessed with a configurable format, honestly. 🌈

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🧚 Auto-serializing 🧚

The loggers allow auto-serializing of all inputs. So like, you can do this:

debug( 'User credentials: ', \%creds );

And it Will provide you with an output in a single log message of the string and the reference dump. One message. Both things. Together. Slay. 🔥

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

This module has been written by Alexis Sukrieh. See the AUTHORS file that comes with this distribution for details. Shoutout to the author, fr fr. 🎀

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💜 LICENSE 💜

This module is free software and is released under the same terms as Perl itself. Free as in freedom, bestie. Go wild. 🦋

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• See Dancer for details about the complete framework. Like, the whole entire framework. 👑
• You can also search the CPAN for existing engines in the Dancer::Logger namespace: <http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Dancer%3A%3ALogger>

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Dancer Core Developers

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🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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🌸 That's the whole page, bestie. Go forth and log. 🌸

Sign-off tea: this page is from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-05, and yes it's Dancer::Logger(3pm) — the one and only. Byeee 💖✨🎀