Note: For related topics to this tutorial that you may need to understand, you may be interested in tutorials about using dependency injection, which is needed to get the logger service into your code. Understand the Service Container and Get a Service from the Container are good places to start with that. Additionally the Entity API Hooks tutorial uses logging as an example when working with entities.
Developers familiar with Drupal 7 will also be familiar with watchdog(), an API function that allows you to create a log message that appears on the Reports page in the Drupal administrative UI. Implementing D7’s hook_watchdog allows module developers to customize the destination of these log messages. In Drupal 8, both functions are replaced by a PSR-3-compatible logging interface (change notice).
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the D8 equivalent of D7’s watchdog() function: creating a log message that appears on the Reports administrative page. In a future tutorial, we’ll cover how to create your own logger, and use it in your custom module. However, I’ve left you some hints and pointers at the end of this tutorial if you care to dive in before then.
Before and after
There is a straight-up D8 procedural equivalent of D7’s watchdog function, as we learn from the change notice:
Drupal 7 watchdog()
<?php
// Logs a notice
watchdog('my_module', $message, array());
// Logs an error
watchdog('my_module', $message, array(), WATCHDOG_ERROR);
?>
Drupal 8 logger class
<?php
// Logs a notice
\Drupal::logger('my_module')->notice($message);
// Logs an error
\Drupal::logger('my_module')->error($message);
?>
Learn from Examples
I downloaded the Examples for Developers module (version 8.x-1.x, but please consult the project page for the latest version) and looked for an example of this in action. I found a good one in the content_entity_example module within the Examples project.
After downloading Examples, open the project in your code editor or IDE of choice. (With Drupal 8’s object-oriented framework, I highly recommend using an IDE such as PhpStorm, simply because it makes navigating classes, methods, and their implementations so much easier. If you’re new to using an IDE, we have a nice set of PhpStorm IDE how-to videos from the creators, JetBrains, available on Drupalize.Me.)
Let’s take a look at the ContactDeleteForm class in examples/content_entity_example.
In your code editor, navigate to:
examples/content_entity_example/src/Form/ContactDeleteForm.php
If you have Examples downloaded to a Drupal 8 installation, that path is:
DRUPALROOT/modules/examples/content_entity_example/src/Form/ContactDeleteForm.php
In the submitform() method, we see the following:
public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
$entity = $this->getEntity();
$entity->delete();
\Drupal::logger('content_entity_example')->notice('@type: deleted %title.',
array(
'@type' => $this->entity->bundle(),
'%title' => $this->entity->label(),
));
$form_state->setRedirect('entity.content_entity_example_contact.collection');
}
Let’s break this down.
a. \Drupal::
In this example, the submitForm method relies on the Drupal service container wrapper, a class which smoothes the transition from procedural to object-oriented code in the Drupal code base. The double colon means that we’re accessing a class from “elsewhere,” or outside of the class that it’s called from. It’s kind of like using an absolute path instead of relative one.
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