[web-devel] A logging system as a WAI middleware

[Michael Snoyman]

Well, (1) isn't really an option: there are very specific reasons why
the code is structured that way. That said, I think it could
theoretically be possible to build a middleware like that anyway.
Also, it might be acceptable to simply output a more generic log
message on ResponseEnumerator, as it shouldn't be very common.

If you want, I can take a crack at implementing the code for
ResponseEnumerator, just tell me where you have your current code.

And for (2): I think it would be useful no matter what to have a
library function for debug messages.

Michael

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Greg Weber asked me to implement a logging system as a WAI middleware.
> So, I considered it.
>
> The typical Apache log format is as follows:
>
>        127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2011:11:27:34 +0900] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 512 "referer" "agent"
>
>        where 200 is status and 512 is a response size
>
> Response is defined as follows:
>
>         ResponseFile Status ResponseHeaders FilePath (Maybe FilePart)
>         ResponseBuilder Status ResponseHeaders Builder
>         ResponseEnumerator (forall a. ResponseEnumerator a)
>
> We cannot know status from ResponseEnumerator. Also, we cannot
> directly know size from the all three.
>
> Design choices are as follows:
>
> 1) Modified the Response type and implement a logging system as a
>   WAI middleware.
> 2) Giving up implementing a logging system as a WAI middleware
>   and implement a logging system as just a library.
>
> Which one is better?
>
> --Kazu
>
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