Redirect Stream to spdlog Logger

StreamLogger.hpp

#include <streambuf>
#include <ostream>

#include "spdlog/spdlog.h"

template<class Element = char, class Trait = std::char_traits<Element>>
class StreamLogger : public std::basic_streambuf<Element, Trait>
{
public:
    StreamLogger(std::ostream& stream, std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> logger)
        : m_stream{ stream }, m_logger{ std::move(logger) }
    {
        // Redirect provided stream
        m_buffer = m_stream.rdbuf(this);
    };

    ~StreamLogger()
    {
        try
        {
            // Restore provided stream
            m_stream.rdbuf(m_buffer);

        }
        catch(const std::ios_base::failure& exception)
        {
            const auto message = std::string{ "StreamLogger was unable to restore the provided stream: " };
            m_logger->error(message + exception.what());
        }
    }

    StreamLogger(const StreamLogger& other) = delete;
    StreamLogger& operator=(const StreamLogger& other) = delete;

    StreamLogger(StreamLogger&& other) noexcept = default;
    StreamLogger& operator=(StreamLogger&& other) noexcept = default;

protected:
    std::streamsize xsputn(const Element* elements, const std::streamsize count) override
    {
        m_string_buffer.append(elements, static_cast<std::string::size_type>(count));
        return count;
    }

    typename Trait::int_type overflow(typename Trait::int_type final_character) override
    {
        m_logger->error(m_string_buffer);
        m_string_buffer.clear();
        return Trait::not_eof(final_character);
    }

    std::basic_ostream<Element, Trait>& m_stream;
    std::streambuf* m_buffer;
    std::basic_string<Element, Trait> m_string_buffer;
    std::shared_ptr<spdlog::logger> m_logger;
};

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After trying some work arounds, these are are the few things that may fix things:

• Make constructor private
• Delete move constructor/assignment
• Add a factory function that returns a non- discardable unique pointer
• std::basic_streambuf<Element, Trait> didn’t want to do anything for me. I had to write everything without character and traits templates, maybe has something to do with my standard library, I still don’t understand why 🤷🏻‍♂️.
• Add an open source license ;)

Make constructor private

How do you construct an instance then?

Delete move constructor/assignment

I guess that makes sense, if it's not movable anyways.

Add a factory function that returns a non- discardable unique pointer

What's a non-discardable unique pointer? 😄

std::basic_streambuf<Element, Trait> didn’t want to do anything for me

Maybe something with spdlog changed. The class is already three years old.

Add an open source license ;)

Done 🙂

What's a non-discardable unique pointer? 😄

I mean this function signature: [[nodiscard]] std::unique_ptr<StreamLogger<…>> StreamLogger<…>::make(…). The pointer must not be discarded because there is no observable side-effects if the object is immediately discarded. This is so that people don’t forget to assign it to an object on creation.

How do you construct an instance then?

The factory function make(…) still has access to private parts for of its class, for example, the constructor.

Maybe something with spdlog changed.

No really, my tests also didn’t work with std::stringing and std::cout when I used the templated version.

Add an open source license ;)

Done 🙂

Thank you :)