[TYPO3-core] The new logging API and the sys_log table

[François Suter]

Hi all,

I'm currently adding a chapter to Core APIs about the logging API 
introduced in TYPO3 6.0 and I am puzzled about the DatabaseWriter.

By default it writes to the "sys_log" table and new fields were added to 
that table to accommodate the data from the Logger, but all existing 
fields are left empty. The result is that if you write some stuff to the 
sys_log using the DatabaseWriter, those records will not be visible in 
the "Log" BE module, because they miss crucial information (like a 
tstamp, for example).

Isn't this weird? Should we have some form of mapping, which would make 
it possible to map a log entry's fields to variable DB fields when 
trying to write to some existing table? I fail to see the point of 
writing to the sys_log table if the entries cannot be read by the tool 
that exists precisely to read that table. And I don't think that belog 
should be changed to accommodate a double DB structure, as it would 
really mess the repository.

What do you think?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch