Logging

pyqalx can write to local log files. The location of these is set in the configuration and the defaults are qalx.log and <bot_name>.<worker_index>.log in the HOME folder.

The location and name of a log file can be configured and so can the level of logging. You can then use the pyqalx logger to log your own information or get debugging information.

from pyqalx import QalxSession
from pyqalx.config import UserConfig

my_config = {
    "N_THINGS": 50,
    "LOGGING_LEVEL": 'info', # will log everything at INFO and above
    "LOG_FILE_PATH": r"C:\logs\my_log_file.log"
            }

class MyLoggingConfig(UserConfig):

    @property
    def defaults(self):
        config = super(MyLoggingConfig, self).defaults
        config.update(my_config)
        return config


qalx = QalxSession(config_class=MyLoggingConfig)
thing_item = qalx.item.add({"how_many":10*qalx.config['N_THINGS']})
qalx.log.info("added this many things: " + 10*qalx.config['N_THINGS']})

Inside your processing functions you can write to the logs with job.log

from pyqalx import Bot

my_bot = Bot("my bot")

@my_bot.process
def do_process(job):
    job.log.info("LOG THIS!")

To assist with general debugging of pyqalx, setting the level to "DEBUG" will output lots of helpful (hopefully) information about requests to the REST API.