I'm writing logs to the files, which are generate on daily basis (per day one log file is getting generated). This approach is working fine for me :
var (
serverLogger *log.Logger
)
func init() {
// set location of log file
date := time.Now().Format("2006-01-02")
var logpath = os.Getenv(constant.XDirectoryPath) + constant.LogFilePath + date + constant.LogFileExtension
os.MkdirAll(os.Getenv(constant.XDirectoryPath)+constant.LogFilePath, os.ModePerm)
flag.Parse()
var file, err1 = os.OpenFile(logpath, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
if err1 != nil {
panic(err1)
}
mw := io.MultiWriter(os.Stdout, file)
serverLogger = log.New(mw, constant.Empty, log.LstdFlags)
serverLogger.Println("LogFile : " + logpath)
}
// LogServer logs to server's log file
func LogServer(logLevel enum.LogLevel, message string) {
_, file, no, ok := runtime.Caller(1)
logLineData := "logger_server.go"
if ok {
file = shortenFilePath(file)
logLineData = fmt.Sprintf(file + constant.ColonWithSpace + strconv.Itoa(no) + constant.HyphenWithSpace)
}
serverLogger.Println(logLineData + logLevel.String() + constant.HyphenWithSpace + message)
}
// ShortenFilePath Shortens file path to a/b/c/d.go tp d.go
func shortenFilePath(file string) string {
short := file
for i := len(file) - 1; i > 0; i-- {
if file[i] == constant.ForwardSlash {
short = file[i+1:]
break
}
}
file = short
return file
}
"shortenFilePath()" method used to get the name of the file from full path of file. and "LogServer()" method is used to create a formatted log statement (contains : filename, line number, log level, error statement etc...)