Hello, sometime recently i believe i came across a library which had a logging feature where instead...

# android

[Tim]

Hello, sometime recently i believe i came across a library which had a logging feature where instead of using Log.d(TAG, "something"), you could just do d { "something" } and the logger would automatically figure out what class and method its in. Does anyone either happen to know this library or know how i could implement that myself?

[Cody Engel]

Not sure on the library, but you could implement yourself with something like...

fun d(logBlock: () -> Unit) { logBlock() }

[Cody Engel]

🤔 actually probably more like this

fun d(logBlock: () -> String) { 
    val logStatement = logBlock()
    Log.d(..., logStatement)
}

[Tim]

thats awesome! thank you, that is definitely better than what i have. ill try to find a way to reliably get at least the class name

[Tim]

do i call toString() on the logStatement?

[Javier]

You can take a look to my library to get some ideas: https://github.com/JavierSegoviaCordoba/KotlinLogger

[Javier]

it is working fine in intellij, I have to create the android version, but at least it does what you are searching

[Javier]

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[Tim]

@Javier awesome thank you :))

[Cody Engel]

@Tim -- since the output of the function being passed in is a string you just need to invoke it.

@Javier -- this looks nice, I've been looking for a logger for a ktor project I've been working on and I think I may have just found it 🙂

[Javier]

@Cody Engel I have to add support to native, now only JVM, I don't know if you need native too

[Cody Engel]

I'm using ktor for a backend project so native doesn't matter, i spend a lot of time looking at logs though so having them look nicer would be a big win

[Dendi]

Please remember to add “inline” modifier . As {} will be translated into Function0 ,which will delay your app.