Proposed changes

Changing the logging format to have useful information. I've added the following:

- Time Stamp
- TCB (Task Control Block) Address
- Thread ID
- Process ID
- File Name
- Function Name
- Line Number
- Severity Level

It looks like this:

2024-04-30 18:53:40.345 ZWESZ1:0x8FB2F8:0x37455E58:67241934 TS5873 CRITICAL (loggingtest.c:main:18) oh no!

Type of change

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• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Testing

It should be non-breaking. If the new code is in, then the log messages done by ZSS will have the additional metadata by default.

Output from loggingtest.c.

2024-04-30 18:53:40.345 <ZWESZ1:0x8FB2F8:0x37455E58:67241934> TS5873 CRITICAL (loggingtest.c:main:18) Hello from zowelog2(). This log should have every field.
2024-04-30 18:53:40.345 <ZWESZ1:0x8FB2F8:0x37455E58:67241934> TS5873 INFO Hello from zowelog(). This log should lack fileLocation information.
2024-04-30 18:53:40.345 <ZWESZ1:0x8FB2F8:0x37455F20:67241934> TS5873 NA Hello from zowelog(). This log should lack level and fileLocation information.

This demonstrates support for backwards compatibility and native improvements to all current log statements, without changing code.

Further comments

Note: I think that we should move toward a logger that takes a message key and has messages stored in JSON or YAML with various metadata. This is something that I believe would be useful.

{ "key": "someZssError", "prefix": "ZSS", "number": 1, "severity": "I", "format": "This is a test message: %s." }