Here is a quick heads up on the extended Apache::TestTrace functionality:
1) you can now use Apache::TestTrace tracing functions in the mod_perl handlers, replacing those "warn" calls that you have to remember to comment out before committing. The default tracing level is 'info', so if you use:
debug "this is a debug string"
it won't log anything, unless you override it via one of these ways:
# override tracing level via -trace opt
% t/TEST -trace=debug # override tracing level via env var
% env APACHE_TEST_TRACE_LEVEL=debug t/TESTThe cool thing is that you can keep those calls uncommented, and if a user reports a problem, you can simply ask them to run the specific tests using the 'debug' trace level (see above) and post the relevant section of error_log.
You also don't need to add "\n";
This wasn't working before because the tracing level wasn't propogated to the server-side. Now I added 'PerlPassEnv APACHE_TEST_TRACE_LEVEL' to the autogenerated t/conf/httpd.conf to pick the override.
2) I've added two more "macros" for each of those tracing functions:
If the '_mark' suffix is appended (e.g., 'error_mark') the trace will start with the filename and the line number the function was called from. For example:
error_mark "bad programmer, no cookie";
Will print something like:
==> /home/stas/apache.org/mp-filters/t/filter/TestFilter/both_str_req_mix.pm:90 : bad programmer, no cookie
This is similar to calling warn() without the "\n", so it logs the filename/line number, but you can control the tracing level from the command line, without touching the code.
I've used _mark, in parallel with Apache::LOG_MARK.
If the '_sub' suffix is appended (e.g., 'error_info') the trace will start with the name of the subroutine the function was called from. For example:
error_sub "bad programmer, no cookie";
Will print something like:
==> TestFilter::both_str_req_mix::adjust : bad programmer, no cookie
Now that I think about it, may be it's better to append the sub name, file/line info at the end of the trace like warn/die do, instead of the beginning? What do you think?
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