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diff --git a/docs/logging.md b/docs/logging.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a659b3e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/logging.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# Logging macros + +Additional messages can be logged during a test case. + +## Streaming macros + +All these macros allow heterogenous sequences of values to be streaming using the insertion operator (```<<```) in the same way that std::ostream, std::cout, etc support it. + +E.g.: +```c++ +INFO( "The number is " << i ); +``` + +(Note that there is no initial ```<<``` - instead the insertion sequence is placed in parentheses.) +These macros come in three forms: + +**INFO(** _message expression_ **)** + +The message is logged to a buffer, but only reported with the next assertion that is logged. This allows you to log contextual information in case of failures which is not shown during a successful test run (for the console reporter, without -s). Messages are removed from the buffer at the end of their scope, so may be used, for example, in loops. + +**WARN(** _message expression_ **)** + +The message is always reported but does not fail the test. + +**FAIL(** _message expression_ **)** + +The message is reported and the test case fails. + +## Quickly capture a variable value + +**CAPTURE(** _expression_ **)** + +Sometimes you just want to log the name and value of a variable. While you can easily do this with the INFO macro, above, as a convenience the CAPTURE macro handles the stringising of the variable name for you (actually it works with any expression, not just variables). + +E.g. +```c++ +CAPTURE( theAnswer ); +``` + +This would log something like: + +<pre>"theAnswer := 42"</pre> + +## Deprecated macros + +**SCOPED_INFO and SCOPED_CAPTURE** + +These macros are now deprecated and are just aliases for INFO and CAPTURE (which were not previously scoped). + +--- + +[Home](Readme.md)
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