hclogvet

hclogvet

hclogvet is a go vet tool for checking that the Trace/Debug/Info/Warn/Error methods on hclog.Logger are used correctly.

Usage

This may be used in two ways. It may be invoked directly:

$ hclogvet .
/full/path/to/project/log.go:25:8: invalid number of log arguments to Info (1 valid pair only)

Or via go vet:

$ go vet -vettool=$(which hclogvet)
# full/module/path
./log.go:25:8: invalid number of log arguments to Info (1 valid pair only)

Details

These methods expect an odd number of arguments as in:

logger.Info("valid login", "account", accountID, "ip", addr)

The leading argument is a message string, and then the remainder of the arguments are key/value pairs of additional structured data to log to provide context.

hclogvet will detect unfortunate errors like:

logger.Error("raft request failed: %v", err)
logger.Error("error opening file", err)
logger.Debug("too many connections", numConnections, "ip", ipAddr)

So that the author can correct them:

logger.Error("raft request failed", "error", err)
logger.Error("error opening file", "error", err)
logger.Debug("too many connections", "connections", numConnections, "ip", ipAddr)