//! This example illustrates how to transfer log events from the [`Layer`] to Bevy's ECS. //! //! The way we will do this is via a [`mpsc`] channel. [`mpsc`] channels allow 2 unrelated //! parts of the program to communicate (in this case, [`Layer`]s and Bevy's ECS). //! //! Inside the `custom_layer` function we will create a [`mpsc::Sender`] and a [`mpsc::Receiver`] from a //! [`mpsc::channel`]. The [`Sender`](mpsc::Sender) will go into the `AdvancedLayer` and the [`Receiver`](mpsc::Receiver) will //! go into a non-send resource called `LogEvents` (It has to be non-send because [`Receiver`](mpsc::Receiver) is [`!Sync`](Sync)). //! From there we will use `transfer_log_events` to transfer log events from `LogEvents` to an ECS event called `LogEvent`. //! //! Finally, after all that we can access the `LogEvent` event from our systems and use it. //! In this example we build a simple log viewer. use std::sync::mpsc; use bevy::log::BoxedLayer; use bevy::{ log::tracing_subscriber::{self, Layer}, prelude::*, utils::tracing, utils::tracing::Subscriber, }; /// A basic message. This is what we will be sending from the [`CaptureLayer`] to [`CapturedLogEvents`] non-send resource. #[derive(Debug, Event)] struct LogEvent { message: String, } /// This non-send resource temporarily stores [`LogEvent`]s before they are /// written to [`Events`] by [`transfer_log_events`]. #[derive(Deref, DerefMut)] struct CapturedLogEvents(mpsc::Receiver); /// Transfers information from the `LogEvents` resource to [`Events`](LogEvent). fn transfer_log_events( receiver: NonSend, mut log_events: EventWriter, ) { // Make sure to use `try_iter()` and not `iter()` to prevent blocking. log_events.send_batch(receiver.try_iter()); } /// This is the [`Layer`] that we will use to capture log events and then send them to Bevy's /// ECS via it's [`mpsc::Sender`]. struct CaptureLayer { sender: mpsc::Sender, } impl Layer for CaptureLayer { fn on_event( &self, event: &tracing::Event<'_>, _ctx: tracing_subscriber::layer::Context<'_, S>, ) { // In order to obtain the log message, we have to create a struct that implements // Visit and holds a reference to our string. Then we use the `record` method and // the struct to modify the reference to hold the message string. let mut message = None; event.record(&mut CaptureLayerVisitor(&mut message)); if let Some(message) = message { // You can obtain metadata like this, but we wont use it for this example. let _metadata = event.metadata(); self.sender .send(LogEvent { message }) .expect("LogEvents resource no longer exists!"); } } } /// A [`Visit`](tracing::field::Visit)or that records log messages that are transferred to [`CaptureLayer`]. struct CaptureLayerVisitor<'a>(&'a mut Option); impl tracing::field::Visit for CaptureLayerVisitor<'_> { fn record_debug(&mut self, field: &tracing::field::Field, value: &dyn std::fmt::Debug) { // This if statement filters out unneeded events sometimes show up if field.name() == "message" { *self.0 = Some(format!("{value:?}")); } } } fn custom_layer(app: &mut App) -> Option { let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::channel(); let layer = CaptureLayer { sender }; let resource = CapturedLogEvents(receiver); app.insert_non_send_resource(resource); app.add_event::(); app.add_systems(Update, transfer_log_events); Some(layer.boxed()) } fn main() { App::new() .add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(bevy::log::LogPlugin { custom_layer, ..default() })) .add_systems(Startup, (log_system, setup)) .add_systems(Update, print_logs) .run(); } fn log_system() { // here is how you write new logs at each "log level" (in "most important" to // "least important" order) error!("something failed"); warn!("something bad happened that isn't a failure, but thats worth calling out"); info!("helpful information that is worth printing by default"); debug!("helpful for debugging"); trace!("very noisy"); } #[derive(Component)] struct LogViewerRoot; fn setup(mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(Camera2dBundle::default()); commands.spawn(( NodeBundle { style: Style { width: Val::Vw(100.0), height: Val::Vh(100.0), flex_direction: FlexDirection::Column, ..default() }, ..default() }, LogViewerRoot, )); } // This is how we can read our LogEvents. // In this example we are reading the LogEvents and inserting them as text into our log viewer. fn print_logs( mut events: EventReader, mut commands: Commands, log_viewer_root: Query>, ) { let root_entity = log_viewer_root.single(); commands.entity(root_entity).with_children(|child| { for event in events.read() { child.spawn(TextBundle::from_section( &event.message, TextStyle::default(), )); } }); }