[Twisted-Python] Twisted, twistd and logging

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 18:32 +1000, Tim Allen wrote:

> True; if I had to make a complaint about t.p.log, it would be that this
> system for arbitrary event-sources to communicate with arbitrary
> event-observers needs a well-defined interface to facilitate
> communication. Currently, the only things an event-observer can rely on
> are the 'isError' and 'system' fields being present, and probably
> 'message' and 'time'. Any observer winds up either depending on extra
> fields set by a specific event-source (and hoping that no other
> event-source happens to use the same field-names for different
> purposes), or having to treat every event as a raw text event -
> defeating the point of logging complicated events in the first place.

The plan was (is) to switch to requiring a interface=IFooMessageType
keyword. Some day :(