Golang fasthttp router custom logger

Question

I'm playing with fasthttp and it's router, I have no issues with basic things, I have a working server and a router, that is the easy part.

The issue is with the logger, I would like to be able to customize that one, but it does not seem possible with the ctx.Logger() as it only takes a Printf argument and the format is not what I'm looking for.

Does anyone knows where in the documentation I can find a working example of what I want to do?

Example of code I currently have:

package server

import (
    "github.com/fasthttp/router"
    "github.com/valyala/fasthttp"
)

// Router will manage the routes of our API server
func Router() *router.Router {
    r := router.New()
    r.GET("/", index)

    return r
}

func index(ctx *fasthttp.RequestCtx) {
    ctx.Logger().Printf("/")
    ctx.WriteString("Welcome!")
}

As I'm still trying my hand with the web servers and I still don't understand some things with it and Go also. So An example would be welcome.

For example I would like to be able to do something like that using a logger define in the main package:

 package server

import (
    "github.com/fasthttp/router"
    "github.com/valyala/fasthttp"
    "go.uber.org/zap"
)

// Router will manage the routes of our API server
func Router(loger *zap.Logger) *router.Router {
    r := router.New()
    r.GET("/", index)

    return r
}

func index(ctx *fasthttp.RequestCtx) {
    ctx.Logger().Printf("/") // Here should print in the zap format of my choice.
    ctx.WriteString("Welcome!")
}

You haven't said what you want the logger to do. There are plenty of alternative loggers for Go BTW. — see sharper, Mar 11 '21 at 23:00
What I want is to be able to customize the fasthttprouter logger. Still I will update the question with an example. — night-gold, Mar 11 '21 at 23:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '21 at 23:37

If you look at the source code, it's apparent that all you have is the ability to write standard Go-formatted strings:

func (cl *ctxLogger) Printf(format string, args ...interface{}) {
    msg := fmt.Sprintf(format, args...)
    ctxLoggerLock.Lock()
    cl.logger.Printf("%.3f %s - %s", time.Since(cl.ctx.ConnTime()).Seconds(), cl.ctx.String(), msg)
    ctxLoggerLock.Unlock()
}

The logger simply adds some additional information from the context. So further cutomisation beyond the standard Go formatting does not seem possible. I'm not sure what "zap format of my choice" is, so I can't say if there's a workaround or even if standard Go formatting options will serve for you here.

I never said I want it to work like that, I would like to be able to do something like that, If I have to use something else than ctx.Logger(), it would be ok for me... As I said I don't really know the way to do what I want to do, so I gave an example not the final result. — night-gold, Mar 12 '21 at 09:48

Golang fasthttp router custom logger

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