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Duru Can Celasun commented on THRIFT-4985: ------------------------------------------ Fair enough, I didn't think this through. Let's go with your approach. We are importing stdlib log in 3 places: zlib_transport, debug_protocol and simple_server. Zlib can be removed, debug protocol and simple server's innerAccept should use the new logger. For processRequests though, we should just remove the [panic recovery|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/cecee50308fc7e6f77f55b3fd906c1c6c471fa2f/lib/go/thrift/simple_server.go#L232-L236]. A library shouldn't be recovering from panics caused by user defined functions (rpc handlers). Thoughts? > Clean up logging in go library > ------------------------------ > > Key: THRIFT-4985 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4985 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Go - Library > Reporter: Yuxuan Wang > Priority: Major > > As principals: > # As a library, the library itself shouldn't do any logging. It should > always return the error to the caller (library user), and let them to decide > how to handle them (logging, panic, etc.) > # In some cases it's not possible to return the error to the caller, so some > logging is necessary, but those should be kept minimal, and made more > controllable to the caller. > Looking at how we do logging in go library now: > # We have logging inside > [TZlibTransport|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/6e4c581fddae9106c2c5a59c4d0bfbe6ad3e4560/lib/go/thrift/zlib_transport.go#L70], > which fits Principal 1 above and should be removed > # We have logging inside TSimpleServer, which fits Principal 2 above (those > are in the accept loop so there's no easy way to return the errors to the > caller) > For Principal 2, one of the problem is that we can't just force all the > callers to use the same logging library. There are a lot of logging libraries > and it's not always possible to convert them into each other. Some people > might be using [go-kit logger|https://godoc.org/github.com/go-kit/kit/log] > because they want structured logging, or because they are already using > go-kit for other things, and some people might be using > [zap|https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap] for its performance. They are both > incompatible to the stdlib log library. > This, combined with the part that we should keep the logging minimal, is why > I propose a simple, common ground that's easy to wrap any logging library > into: > {code:go} > type Logger func(msg string) > {code} > Whatever logging library the user is already using, it's easy to write a > lambda to convert that to this common ground, for example for the stdlib log > library: > {code:go} > func StdLogger(logger *log.Logger) Logger { > return func(msg string) { > logger.Print(msg) > } > } > {code} > You can even have one to be used in tests, because the purpose of logging is > that it's only used for situations that is bad, we can make it that whenever > the logging is called we should fail the test: > {code:go} > func TestLogger(tb testing.TB) Logger { > return func(msg string) { > tb.Errorf("logger called with msg: %q", msg) > } > } > {code} > This way, the caller can make sure that the logging from inside the thrift > library is using the same logger as what they are already using, or they can > suppress the logging entirely if they choose to. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)