pw_log_string#

pw_log_string is a partial backend for pw_log. This backend fowards the PW_LOG_* macros to the pw_log_string:handler facade which is backed by a C API. pw_log_string:handler does not implement the full C API, leaving projects to provide their own implementation of pw_log_string_HandleMessageVaList. See pw_log_basic for a similar pw_log backend that also provides an implementation.

As this module passes the log message, file name, and module name as a string to the handler function, it’s relatively expensive and not well suited for space-constrained devices. This module is oriented towards usage on a host (e.g. a simulated device).

Note that pw_log_string:handler may be used even when it’s not used as the backend for pw_log via pw_log_string. For example it can be useful to mix tokenized and string based logging in case you have a C ABI where tokenization can not be used on the other side.

Getting started#

This module is extremely minimal to set up:

  1. Implement pw_log_string_HandleMessageVaList()

  2. Set pw_log_BACKEND to "$dir_pw_log_string"

  3. Set pw_log_string_HANDLER_BACKEND to point to the source set that implements pw_log_string_HandleMessageVaList()

What exactly pw_log_string_HandleMessageVaList() should do is entirely up to the implementation. pw_log_basic’s log handler is one example, but it’s also possible to encode as protobuf and send over a TCP port, write to a file, or blink an LED to log as morse code.