Data Structures for Config Saving

A Log can be sent to a File, Syslog, or stderr.

So, the possible logging channels are

• FILE
• SYSLOG
• STDERR

The logging channels take up parameters

FILE - path to the logging file

SYSLOG - name of the SYSLOG FACILITY

STDERR - stderr (is this a parameter?)

The corresponding to each combination of channel_type and channel_parameters, there shall be a list of tags that are to be logged

The data structure that I have in mind is like the following

A structure for a logging channel with members Logging Channel, Channel Parmeters, A linked list of tags, that shall be a linked list on its own, that are to be logged, corresponding to that channel.

typedef enum {
    STDOUT,     /* standard output */
    STDERROUT,  /* standard error output */
    FILEOUT,    /* file output */
    RBUFOUT,    /* ringbuffer output */
    SYSLOG      /* syslog output */
} logc_loggerType_t;

typedef struct {
    char            *category;
    LoggingTagsList *next;
} LoggingTagsList;

typedef struct {
    int             channel_number;
    char           *channel_parameter;
    LoggingTagsList categories;
    LoggingChannel *next;
} LoggingChannel;

And then when we encounter a tag, we can look it up in the channels' structures and log it accordingly if found.

-- ShubhamSinghal - 2013-07-20