JSON logging ?

[Bart Thate]

Ha ! spoke too soon.

Was reading this:
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging-cookbook.htm<http://docs.python.org/2/howto/logging-cookbook.html>
which
explains it all ;]

Place to be is the LogRecordStreamHandler ;]

Something to play with, first trying out to get a communication channel
running over DCC CHAT ...



On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Bart Thate <feedbackflow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Chris,
>
> good to be updated on the pickle stuff, too bad it is still not safe for
> use. But hee i prefer JSON above pickle anyways so ;]
>
> As to using the logging package to send JSON dict over, the logging stuff
> should be able to be converted to handle that. Just 2 things that need to
> be changes. The logging package basically sends over an dict as well..
>
> makePickle on the SocketHandler in order to send JSON instead of pickled
> stuff
>
>     def makePickle(self, record):
>         """
>         Pickles the record in binary format with a length prefix, and
>         returns it ready for transmission across the socket.
>         """
>         ei = record.exc_info
>         if ei:
>             # just to get traceback text into record.exc_text ...
>             dummy = self.format(record)
>         # See issue #14436: If msg or args are objects, they may not be
>         # available on the receiving end. So we convert the msg % args
>         # to a string, save it as msg and zap the args.
>         d = dict(record.__dict__)
>         d['msg'] = record.getMessage()
>         d['args'] = None
>         d['exc_info'] = None
>         s = pickle.dumps(d, 1)
>         slen = struct.pack(">L", len(s))
>         return slen + s
>
> and this function on the receiving end to convert the JSON stuff back to a
> logging record (want to hook more stuff into this function, such that the
> send JSON is converted into an events that gets send to my callback
> handlers.)
>
> def makeLogRecord(dict):
>     """
>     Make a LogRecord whose attributes are defined by the specified
> dictionary,
>     This function is useful for converting a logging event received over
>     a socket connection (which is sent as a dictionary) into a LogRecord
>     instance.
>     """
>     rv = _logRecordFactory(None, None, "", 0, "", (), None, None)
>     rv.__dict__.update(dict)
>     return rv
>
> What i don't see though is where the receiving code recides ?
> How am i supposed to handle logrecords that are coming from remote, as
> better phrased maybe .. where can i hook my (changed) makeLogRecord into ?
>
> Thnx for the reply dude, helps me enormously ;]
>
> Bart
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 11, 2012 7:33 AM, "Bart Thate" <feedbackflow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>> > pickle uses eval still ? or is is considered safe now ? i was told not
>> to use eval() stuff on data.
>>
>> I don't believe pickle uses eval() per se, but per the red warning box in
>> its docs, it's still not safe when given untrusted input. IIRC, among other
>> things, in order to unpickle non-built-in classes, it is capable of
>> performing imports; this feature is rife for abuse by an adversary.
>>
>
>
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