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[doc] Improve documentation on logger and real-time-logger

Mostly give a sample on how to use the logger member inside the entities.
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\page debug Debugging
They are several ways to perform debugging in dynamic-graph depending on your needs or situation:
- Programmatically inside the entity in C++ will write inside a buffer in a different thread and output in a stream
(either std::cout or a file). It is detailed in \subpage subp_debug_rt_logger.
- Programmatically inside the entity in C++ using a member of the entities and the previous real-time mechanism.
It provides 4 levels of messags :(DEBUG,INFO, WARNING, ERROR). It is described in details here:
\subpage subp_logger
- Programmatically in C++ to avoid overhead with macros and handling level as an int: \subpage subp_dbg_trace
- If you just need to collect informations from signals (like rosbag). You can use
an entity called Tracer inside the graph:\subpage tracerdoc
- programmatically in C++ with macros \subpage subp_dbg_trace
- programmatically inside the entity in C++ using member of the entities:
\subpage tracerrealtimedoc
an entity called Tracer inside the graph:\subpage tracerdoc . <br>
A real time version exists
to write directly inside a memory buffer \subpage tracerrealtimedoc
**/
/**
\page subp_logger Loggers
\section sec_logger Initialization of the logger
\subsection subsec_logger_hcpp Header and preprocessor variable
In order to activate the logger you need to add the following lines:
\code
#define ENABLE_RT_LOG
#include <dynamic-graph/real-time-logger.h>
#include <dynamic-graph/logger.h>
\endcode
\subsection subsec_logger_ Initialize the output stream
It is possible to set the output stream of the messages inside a file:
\code
dynamicgraph::RealTimeLogger::instance();
of.open("/tmp/dg-LOGS.txt",std::ofstream::out|std::ofstream::app);
dgADD_OSTREAM_TO_RTLOG (of);
dynamicgraph::RealTimeLogger::destroy();
\endcode
Here the file is "/tmp/dg-LOGS.txt".
\subsection subsec_logger_init Initialization of the logger
Inside the constructor of the entity:
\code
logger_.setTimeSample(0.001);
logger_.setStreamPrintPeriod(0.005);
logger_.setVerbosity(VERBOSITY_ALL);
LoggerVerbosity alv = logger_.getVerbosity();
\endcode
The first line sets the frequency at which the logger will be updated.<br>
The second line specifies at which frequency the message should be
printed.<br>
The third line specifies the level of message to accept.<br>
The fourth line returns the level of verbosity.
In this case, all messages are accepted. <br>
The full list of options are:
<ul>
<li>VERBOSITY_ALL: Accept all messages</li>
<li>VERBOSITY_INFO_WARNING_ERROR: Accept messages at minimum level : INFO, WARNING, ERROR</li>
<li>VERBOSITY_WARNING_ERROR: Accept messages at minimum level : WARNING, ERROR</li>
<li>VERBOSITY_ERROR: Accept messages at minimum level : ERROR</li>
</ul>
\section sec_logger_tests Displaying messages
Here is some example on how to display or record some information.
\code
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_DEBUG",MSG_TYPE_DEBUG);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_INFO",MSG_TYPE_INFO);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_WARNING",MSG_TYPE_WARNING);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_ERROR",MSG_TYPE_ERROR);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_DEBUG_STREAM",MSG_TYPE_DEBUG_STREAM);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_INFO_STREAM",MSG_TYPE_INFO_STREAM);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_WARNING_STREAM",MSG_TYPE_WARNING_STREAM);
sendMsg("This is a message of level MSG_TYPE_ERROR_STREAM",MSG_TYPE_ERROR_STREAM);
logger_.countdown();
\endcode
*/
/**
\page subp_debug_rt_logger Real-time Logger
It is intended to be used like this:
\code
#define ENABLE_RT_LOG
#include <dynamic-graph/real-time-logger.h>
// Somewhere in the main function of your executable
int main (int argc, char** argv) {
dgADD_OSTREAM_TO_RTLOG (std::cout);
}
// Somewhere in your library
dgRTLOG() << "your message. Prefer to use \n than std::endl."
\endcode
\note Thread safety. This class expects to have:
- only one reader: the one who take the log entries and write them somewhere.
- one writer at a time. Writing to the logs is **never** a blocking
operation. If the resource is busy, the log entry is discarded.
*/
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