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+/*
+ * This file is part of IPAACA, the
+ *  "Incremental Processing Architecture
+ *   for Artificial Conversational Agents".
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Social Cognitive Systems Group
+ *                         CITEC, Bielefeld University
+ *
+ * http://opensource.cit-ec.de/projects/ipaaca/
+ * http://purl.org/net/ipaaca
+ *
+ * This file may be licensed under the terms of of the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License Version 3 (the ``LGPL''),
+ * or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Software distributed under the License is distributed
+ * on an ``AS IS'' basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either
+ * express or implied. See the LGPL for the specific language
+ * governing rights and limitations.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the LGPL along with this
+ * program. If not, go to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
+ * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+ *
+ * The development of this software was supported by the
+ * Excellence Cluster EXC 277 Cognitive Interaction Technology.
+ * The Excellence Cluster EXC 277 is a grant of the Deutsche
+ * Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the context of the German
+ * Excellence Initiative.
+ */
+
+package ipaaca.util;
+
+import ipaaca.LocalMessageIU;
+import ipaaca.OutputBuffer;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+
+public class IpaacaLogger {
+
+	private static OutputBuffer ob;
+	private static final Object lock = new Object();
+	
+	private static boolean SEND_IPAACA_LOGS = true;
+	private static String MODULE_NAME = "???";
+	
+	private static void initializeOutBuffer() {
+		synchronized (lock) {
+			if (ob == null) {
+				ob = new OutputBuffer("LogSender");
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	
+	public static void setModuleName(String name) {
+		synchronized (lock) {
+			MODULE_NAME = name;
+		}
+	}
+	
+	public static void setLogFileName(String fileName, String logMode) {
+		initializeOutBuffer();
+		LocalMessageIU msg = new LocalMessageIU("log");
+		HashMap<String, String> pl = new HashMap<String, String>();
+		pl.put("cmd", "open_log_file");
+		pl.put("filename", fileName);
+		if (logMode != null) {
+			if (logMode.equals("append") ||
+					logMode.equals("overwrite") ||
+					logMode.equals("timestamp")) {
+				pl.put("existing", logMode);
+			} else {
+				
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+		ob.add(msg);
+	}
+	
+	public static void sendIpaacaLogs(boolean flag) {
+		synchronized (lock) {
+			SEND_IPAACA_LOGS = flag;
+		}
+	}
+	
+	private static void logConsole(String level, String text, float now, String function, String thread) {
+		for(String line: text.split("\n")) {
+			   System.out.println("[" + level + "] " + thread + " " + function + " " + line);
+			   function = StringUtils.leftPad("", function.length(), ' ');
+			   thread = StringUtils.leftPad("", thread.length(), ' ');
+		}
+	}
+	
+	private static void logIpaaca(String level, String text, float now, String function, String thread) {
+		initializeOutBuffer();
+		LocalMessageIU msg = new LocalMessageIU("log");
+		HashMap<String, String> pl = new HashMap<String, String>();
+		pl.put("module", MODULE_NAME);
+		pl.put("function", function);
+		pl.put("level", level);
+		pl.put("time", String.format("%.3f", now));
+		pl.put("thread", thread);
+		pl.put("uuid", UUID.randomUUID().toString());
+		pl.put("text", text);
+		msg.setPayload(pl);
+		ob.add(msg);
+	}
+
+	public static void logError(String msg) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logError(msg, System.currentTimeMillis(), function);		
+	}
+	
+	public static void logError(String msg, float now) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logError(msg, now, function);	
+	}
+	
+	private static void logError(String msg, float now, String callerName) {
+		String thread = Thread.currentThread().getName();
+		if (SEND_IPAACA_LOGS) {
+			logIpaaca("ERROR", msg, now, callerName, thread);
+		}
+		logConsole("ERROR", msg, now, callerName, thread);
+	}
+	
+	public static void logWarn(String msg) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logWarn(msg, System.currentTimeMillis(), function);		
+	}
+	
+	public static void logWarn(String msg, float now) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logWarn(msg, now, function);		
+	}
+	
+	private static void logWarn(String msg, float now, String callerName) {
+		String thread = Thread.currentThread().getName();
+		if (SEND_IPAACA_LOGS) {
+			logIpaaca("WARN", msg, now, "???", thread);
+		}
+		logConsole("WARN", msg, now, "???", thread);
+	}
+	
+	public static void logInfo(String msg) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logInfo(msg, System.currentTimeMillis(), function);		
+	}
+	
+	public static void logInfo(String msg, float now) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logInfo(msg, now, function);		
+	}
+	
+	private static void logInfo(String msg, float now, String callerName) {
+		String thread = Thread.currentThread().getName();
+		if (SEND_IPAACA_LOGS) {
+			logIpaaca("INFO", msg, now, "???", thread);
+		}
+		logConsole("INFO", msg, now, "???", thread);
+	}
+
+	public static void logDebug(String msg) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logDebug(msg, System.currentTimeMillis(), function);		
+	}
+	
+	public static void logDebug(String msg, float now) {
+		String function = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[2].getMethodName();
+		logDebug(msg, now, function);		
+	}
+	
+	private static void logDebug(String msg, float now, String callerName) {
+		String thread = Thread.currentThread().getName();
+		if (SEND_IPAACA_LOGS) {
+			logIpaaca("DEBUG", msg, now, "???", thread);
+		}
+		logConsole("DEBUG", msg, now, "???", thread);
+	}
+	
+}