[Zope3-dev] customizing accesslog format

[Chris Withers]

Sascha Ottolski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it appears as if the format for the access log is somewhat hardcoded. I 
> see that there exists (at least)
> 
>     zope.app.server.accesslog
>     zope.app.twisted.accesslog
>     zope.app.twisted.log
> 
> and
> 
>     twisted.web2.log

ouch...

> From discussions I found it seems as if the latter would be the place to 
> hack the actual logging format (like suggested in 
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2006-January/017771.html).
> 
> I'm wondering, is patching twisted really the way to go?

It's a shame that the python logging framework isn't used by either 
twisted or zope3 from what you're saying :-(

I wonder if they could be made to do so and if the respective 
communities would welcome that?

> Would it be feasible to make the acceslog format be customizable via a 
> zope.conf entry, in a way similar to what possible with apache & co.?

Indeed, it should just be another logger section...

Chris

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