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/*
    Copyright (C) 2012 Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

*/

/** @file src/log.h
 *  @brief A very simple logging class.
 */

#include <string>
#include <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>

/** @class Log
 *  @brief A very simple logging class.
 *
 *  This class simply accepts log messages and writes them to a file.
 *  Its single nod to complexity is that it has a mutex to prevent
 *  multi-thread logging from clashing.
 */
class Log
{
public:
	Log (std::string f);

	enum Level {
		STANDARD = 0,
		VERBOSE = 1
	};

	void log (std::string m, Level l = STANDARD);

	void set_level (Level l);

private:
	/** mutex to prevent simultaneous writes to the file */
	boost::mutex _mutex;
	/** filename to write to */
	std::string _file;
	/** level above which to ignore log messages */
	Level _level;
};