fysxasteroids/engine/Logging.h

#ifndef _LOGGING_H
#define _LOGGING_H

#include "Engine.h"

namespace Engine {

class Module;

/** \brief All logging goes through this class
 *
 * Only log messages higher or equal that of mPrintLevel are printed out. When
 * a log filename was specified by Logging::SetLogFilename() then all messages
 * sent to the Logging class are written to the file.
 *
 * \note The program automatically abortst when reporting an error
 * \TODO Add log level for files separately
 */
class Logging : public Module {
	public:
		void Log (LogLevel level, const char *str, ...);
		void SetLogPrintLevel (LogLevel print_level);
		void SetLogFilename (const char *filename);
		/** \brief Returns the last LogEntry that was sent to the Logging module
		 */
		const LogEntry& GetLastEntry ();

	protected:
		/** \brief Initializes the system */
		virtual int OnInit (int argc, char* argv[]);
		/** \brief Destroys the system (must be called!) */
		virtual void OnDestroy ();

	private:
		LogLevel mPrintLevel;
		/** \brief Stores all log messages that were sent to the Logging module
		 * \todo Restrict the number of entries to be stored!
		 */
		std::vector<LogEntry> mLogEntries;
		std::ofstream mLogFileOut;
};

}
#endif // _LOGGING_H