Re: [mh] Your help re Genericising Error and log handling

Replying to my own post, would a user defined function be the quick/easy 
way to handle log handling customization?

Ex: the first thing in the handle_log sub would be a call to a user 
handling function, sort of like a pre-defined hook:

sub handle_log {
     ...
     my @returned_log = &handle_log_user($message, $severity, $category) 
if (defined(&handle_log_user));
     # Check for any updated values in @return_log
     ...
}

Then if a user wanted to add their own custom handler they would just 
put something like this in their user code:

sub handle_log_user {
     my ($message, $severity, $category) = @_;
     if ($message =~ /WARN*.temperature/ ) {
         $severity = "ALERT";
     }
     return ($message, $severity, $category);
}

Otherwise they get the default behavior.  I think MH will even pull subs 
out of user code so this should work without further modification

A few lines of code but complete flexibility.  That doesn't seem too 
geeky for a MH user ambitious enough to want to customize their log 
handling.

Jeff



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