Dancer...stract(3pm)

🎀 Dancer::Logger::Abstract(3pm) — the vibe

okay bestie, so like… this is Dancer::Logger::Abstract, an abstract logging engine for Dancer 💖 it's a Perl module, it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and it's version 1.3522 ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

so in your configuration file you'd write something like this, no cap:

# default
logger_format: simple
# [1234] debug @0.12> [hit #123]message from your log in File.pm line 12

# custom
logger_format: %m %{%H:%M}t [%{accept_type}h]
# message from your log [11:59] [text/html]

like, simple gets you that default look, and if you're feeling ✨custom✨ you build your own lil format string out of the pieces below. the comments in there? they're literally showing you what the output ends up looking like 🫶

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This is an abstract logging engine that provides loggers with basic functionality and some sanity checking ✨

it's giving "foundation" energy — it's the base every other Dancer logger builds on, and it does the sanity checks so you don't have to 🙈

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🌸 CONFIGURATION 🌸

logger_format

This is a format string (or a preset name) to specify the log format 💖

The possible values are:

• %h — host emitting the request 🌐
• %t — date (local timezone, formatted like %d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S) ⏰
• %T — date (local timezone, formatted like %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) 🕐
• %u — date (UTC timezone, formatted like %d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S) 🌍
• %U — date (UTC timezone, formatted like %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S) 🌎
• %P — PID 🔢
• %L — log level 📊
• %D — timer ⏱️
• %m — message 💬
• %f — file name that emit the message 📄
• %l — line from the file 📍
• %i — request ID 🆔
• %{$fmt}t — timer formatted with a valid time format ⏳
• %{header}h — header value 📨

There is currently a single preset log format:

• simple — will format the message like: [%P] %L @%D> %i%m in %f l. %l

periodt 💅 that simple preset is the one you get by default, so if you never touch logger_format that's the vibe you're logging in.

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🔥 METHODS 🔥

format_message

Provides a common message formatting 💖 (it's the shared lil helper that does the actual formatting work)

core

Logs messages as core 👑

debug

Logs messages as debug 🐛

warning

Logs messages as warning ⚠️

error

Logs messages as error 🚨

info

Logs messages as info ℹ️

_log

A method to override. If your logger does not provide this, it will cause the application to die 💀

not me writing a logger and forgetting _log… bestie your whole app just dies. no cap. override it or perish 😭

_should

Checks a certain level number against a certain level type (core, debug, info warning, error) ✅

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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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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-05, and this manual page right here is Dancer::Logger::Abstract(3pm) ⭐ slay, go log something iconic 💅✨