logobj

Object to File Logger for Node

Install

npm install logobj

Usage

logobj([<filename>,] <data> [, <options>]);

var logobj = require('logobj');
// ...
logobj(data);
// or
logobj('myfile.json', data);
// or
logobj('myfile.json', data, options);

Parameters

filename (optional)

• Name of file to write data to.
• Date/time will be appended to the name before the extension. (Can be disabled - see options below)
• If not specified then a UUID will be used with the dashes removed and '.json' appended.

data

• The data that you want to write to the file.
• If it's not an object then it will be encapsulated inside an object.
• The data will be pretty printed (also called beautified or beautification).

options (optional)

The default options are show below with comments.

{
  // The filename options determine how the filename is created
  filename: {
    // Change to true to suppress adding a date/time stamp to the filename
    nodate: false,
    // Change the date/time format in the filename
    dateFormat: 'YYYYMMDDhhmmss',
    // Prepend the date instead of appending when true
    leadDate: false,
    // Append .json if file doesn't end in .json
    appendJson: false
  },
  // indent and serializer are used by the JSON.stringify() method
  // Number of characters to use for indenting
  indent: 2,
  // Serializer that should be used by JSON.stringify()
  serializer: null,
  // fs.writeFile() is used to write the file.
  // Pass any options that fs.writeFile() accepts in this object.
  fsOptions: {
    encoding: 'utf8'
  }
}