A category of log message. More...

Public Member Functions
const std::string &	name () const
	Retrieve the log category name. More...

LogSeverity	severity () const
	Retrieve the severity of the log category. More...

void	setSeverity (LogSeverity severity)
	Set the severity of the log category. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static LogCategory *	create (const char *name)
	Create a new LogCategory or return an existing one. More...

static const LogCategory &	defaultCategory ()
	Retrieve the default log category. More...

Detailed Description

A category of log message.

The LogCategory class represents a category of log messages, related to an area of the library. It groups all messages belonging to the same category, and is used to control the log level per group.

Member Function Documentation

◆ create()

LogCategory * libcamera::LogCategory::create ( const char * name )

static

Create a new LogCategory or return an existing one.

Parameters

[in] name Name of the log category

Create and return a new LogCategory with the given name if such a category does not yet exist, or return the existing one.

Returns: The pointer to the LogCategory

◆ defaultCategory()

const LogCategory & libcamera::LogCategory::defaultCategory ( )

static

Retrieve the default log category.

The default log category is named "default" and is used by the LOG() macro when no log category is specified.

Returns: A reference to the default log category

◆ name()

libcamera::LogCategory::name ( ) const

inline

Retrieve the log category name.

Returns: The log category name

◆ setSeverity()

void libcamera::LogCategory::setSeverity ( LogSeverity severity )

Set the severity of the log category.

Messages of severity higher than or equal to the severity of the log category are printed, other messages are discarded.

◆ severity()

libcamera::LogCategory::severity ( ) const

inline

Retrieve the severity of the log category.

See also: setSeverity()

Returns: Return the severity of the log category

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

include/libcamera/base/log.h
src/libcamera/base/log.cpp

Public Member Functions