Loguru-config

Loguru-config is a simple configurator for the Loguru logging library. It extends the functionality of Loguru by allowing the user to configure the logger from a configuration file. This package provides a much-needed feature to Loguru, which is the ability to configure the logger from a configuration file (for example, using loguru alone, one can't automatically configure the logger to write to sys.stdout or sys.stderr from within a configuration file).

The configuration can have syntax similar to the one used by the native logging library in Python (i.e. support cfg://, ext://, etc.), but extends it to support even more features. It can also be easily extended to support even more features quite easily (see Extending the configurator for more details).

The configurator supports parsing of JSON, JSON5, YAML, and TOML files (out of the box) and can be extended to support other formats (again, see Extending the configurator below).

Installation

pip install loguru-config

Features

• Supports parsing of JSON, YAML, and TOML files (out of the box) with a simple Configurator.load call.
• Supports loading a member of a module from a string (e.g. ext://sys.stdout).
• Support referencing another member of the configuration file (e.g. cfg://loggers.default.handlers.0).
• Support calling a user-defined function from within the configuration file (e.g. { '()': 'datetime.datetime.now' }).
• Support referencing an environment variable (e.g. env://HOME).
• Support referencing (and parsing) referencing another file (e.g. file://./path/to/file.json).
• Support parsing literal python (strings, integers, lists, etc.) from within string values in a configuration (e.g. literal://[1, 2, 3]).
• Support string formatting (e.g. fmt://{cfg://loggers.default.handlers.0} - {{ESCAPED}}).
• Also, almost all of these parsings are recursively parsed (except user-defined functions).
• Both the special-case parsing and configuration loading can be easily extended to support more features (see Extending the configurator below).

Examples

The following YAML configuration file

handlers:
  - sink: ext://sys.stderr
    format: '[{time}] {message}'
  - sink: file.log
    enqueue: true
    serialize: true
levels:
  - name: NEW
    'no': 13
    icon: ¤
    color: ""
extra:
  common_to_all: default
activation:
  - [ "my_module.secret", false ]
  - [ "another_library.module", true ]

will be parsed to

from loguru import logger
import sys

logger.configure(
    handlers=[
        dict(sink=sys.stderr, format="[{time}] {message}"),
        dict(sink="file.log", enqueue=True, serialize=True),
    ],
    levels=[dict(name="NEW", no=13, icon="¤", color="")],
    extra={"common_to_all": "default"},
    activation=[("my_module.secret", False), ("another_library.module", True)],
)

Special-case parsing

There are multiple special cases that are applicable. Some are recursive (i.e. after parsing, their contents will be reparsed), and some aren't. The recursive cases will be marked as such in their header.

String fields

1. ext:// (recursive) - Load the member according to the reference after the prefix. This can be used, for example to refer to the application's out-streams (ext://sys.stdout or ext://sys.stderr), or to any loaded/loadable member in your own code (e.g. set the level of verbosity according to a predefined member ext://my_package.utils.log_level).
2. cfg:// (recursive) - load a member from elsewhere in the configuration. This is similar to ext://, only within the configuration. For example, cfg://handlers.0.level will refer to the log-level in the first handler. The referencing supports both item-getting in dictionaries (dict.key), tuples and lists (list.index), and attribute-getting in other classes (uses the class' __dict__ attribute).
3. env:// (recursive) - load the field's value from an environmental variable. Since environmental-variables are only strings, env:// fields can be combined (i.e. contain) literal:// tags (more on these below). As an example use case, one can set an extra field to be the Windows username:

   ...
   extra: 
      username: env://USERNAME
   ...

4. literal:// - python-evaluate the contents of string following the prefix as literal python. For security reasons, the evaluation supports only simple built-in types (i.e. int, float, str, bool, None and lists, dictionaries, sets and tuples of these) without conditionals, assignments, lambda-expressions, etc. These are especially useful from loading string-only configurations (like .ini files), or mixed with env:// for loading non-string values. Example: "literal://True" will evaluate to True
5. fmt:// (recursive) - formats a string in an f-string-like way. This is useful to chain multiple variables. For example: fmt://{env://APPDATA/}/{cfg://extra.name}/logs evaluates to sub-folder of the application-data directory with the name given as the key name in the extra part. Some notes on this tag:
   • To escape curly braces, use double-curly braces ({{ evaluates to "{").
   • For now, specifying the individual formats of the formatted placeholders is not supported (e.g. one can not specify "{number:.3f}") because : is used in the tag prefixes. This might be resolved in the future.
6. file:// (recursive) - for cases when you wish parts of the configuration to be shared among different configurations, one can do it using this tag. This tag loads the contents of the file (the same way the original file is loaded), and parses them to be inplace of the given tag. As an example, consider the case where multiple configurations have different extra section but similar handlers, the configuration might look like:

   handlers: 'file://handlers.yaml'
   extra:
      ...
   ...

Dictionary fields

7. The user-defined field, or () (NON-RECURSIVE) - when declaring a user-defined field, one should have the contents of the field parse as a dictionary with the following keys:

   • (): parses as an ext:// field above, but must refer to a callable.
   • * (optional): this key's value, if such key is given, must be a list/tuple of positional arguments to pass to the function.
   • <key> (optional): keyword-arguments to give the function.

   For example, one might wish to configure a logging handler as a sink:

   handlers:
      - sink: 
          "()": logging.handlers.DatagramHandler
          "host": '127.0.0.1'
          "port": 3871
        level: ...
        ...
   ...

Extending the configurator

Aside from inheriting the LoguruConfig class, there are two ways to extend the existing configurator class:

1. Add a custom loading function - by modifying the LoguruConfig.supported_loaders field. This field contains a list of callables that take a string (file name) as an argument and return a parsable object (i.e. a dictionary that can be passed as keyword-arguments to the LoguruConfig class' constructor). Note that the order of this list matters because the loaders will be attempted according to their order in the list.
2. Add a custom string-field parser - similarly, one can extend the class' parsing capabilities by extending LoguruConfig.supported_protocol_parsers. This field contains a list of tuples, where each tuple contains two elements:
   • Condition: can be either a callable taking a string and returning a boolean, or a regular expression. If the latter is given, then if the expression contains any groups, the first group will be passed to the parsing function.
   • Parsing function: a function that takes a string field and parses it.

As an example to the latter, consider the case where a special eval field can be given. In this case, one should extend the configurator as follows:

import re
from loguru_config import LoguruConfig

eval_protocol = re.compile(r'^eval://(.+)$')
LoguruConfig.supported_protocol_parsers = list(LoguruConfig.supported_protocol_parsers) + [
    (eval_protocol, eval)
]

LoguruConfig.load(...)

In contrast, one might not want affect all configurators - just one of them. In this case:

import re
from loguru_config import LoguruConfig

eval_protocol = re.compile(r'^eval://(.+)$')
config = LoguruConfig.load(..., configure=False)

config.supported_protocol_parsers = list(LoguruConfig.supported_protocol_parsers) + [
    (eval_protocol, eval)
]

config.parse().configure()