Migrating from Oslo Incubator to oslo.log¶

What do I import?¶

Our goal is to allow most libraries to import the Python standard library module, logging, and not require oslo.log directly. Applications may do the same, but if an application takes advantage of features like passing keywords through to the context for logging, it is likely to be less confusing to use oslo.log everywhere, rather than have different types of loggers in different modules of the application.

No more audit()¶

The audit() method of the old ContextAdapter class no longer exists. We agreed in the cross project spec to stop using audit level anyway, so those calls should be replaced with calls to info().

Deprecation tools moved to versionutils¶

The deprecated() decorator and DeprecatedConfig have moved to oslo_log.versionutils. Replace LOG.deprecated() with oslo_log.versionutils.report_deprecated_feature, passing a local logger object as the first argument so the log message includes the location information.

No more implicit conversion to unicode/str¶

The old ContextAdapter used to convert anything given to it to a unicode object before passing it to lower layers of the logging code. The new logging configuration uses a formatter instead of an adapter, so this conversion is no longer possible. All message format strings therefore need to be passed as unicode objects – that’s strictly unicode, not str. If a message has no interpolation for extra parameters, a byte string can be used.

The most common place to encounter this is where Logger.error() is used by passing an exception object as the first argument.

# Old style
try:
    do_something()
except Exception as err:
    LOG.error(err)

Now, the error should be converted to unicode either by calling six.text_type() or by using a unicode formatting string to provide context. It’s even better to replace the redundant message produced by passing the exception with a useful message.

# New style, preferred approach
from myapp._i18n import _LE  # see oslo.i18n
try:
    do_something()
except Exception as err:
    LOG.exception(_LE(u"do_something couldn't do something"))

# New style, with exception
from myapp._i18n import _LE  # see oslo.i18n
try:
    do_something()
except Exception as err:
    LOG.error(_LE(u"do_something couldn't do something: %s"), err)

# New style, alternate without context
import six
try:
    do_something()
except Exception as err:
    LOG.error(six.text_type(err))

Failure to do this for exceptions or other objects containing translatable strings from oslo.i18n results in an exception when the _Message instance is combined in unsupported ways with the default formatting string inside the logging module in the standard library.

Changes to App Initialization¶

The logging options are no longer registered on the global configuration object defined in oslo.config, and need to be registered explicitly on the configuration object being used by the application. Do this by calling register_options() before parsing command line options.

The same configuration option passed to register_options() should also be passed as the first argument to setup().

See In an Application for more details about application setup.

Passing Context¶

Applications are expected to be using oslo_context.context.RequestContext as the base class for their application-specific context classes. The base class manages a thread-local storage for the “current” context object so that oslo.log can retrieve it without having the value passed in explicitly. This ensures that all log messages include the same context information, such as the request id and user identification. See the oslo.context documentation for details of using the class.