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Logging
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As pretix is handling monetary transactions, we are very careful to make it possible to review all changes
in the system that lead to the current state.
Logging changes
---------------
We log data changes to the database in a format that makes it possible to display those logs to a human, if
required. pretix stores all those logs centrally in a model called :py:class:`pretix.base.models.LogEntry`.
We recommend all relevant models to inherit from ``LoggedModel`` as it simplifies creating new log entries:
.. autoclass:: pretix.base.models.LoggedModel
:members: log_action, all_logentries
To actually log an action, you can just call the ``log_action`` method on your object::
order.log_action('pretix.event.order.canceled', user=user, data={})
The positional ``action`` argument should represent the type of action and should be globally unique, we
recomment do prefix it with your packagename, e.g. ``paypal.payment.rejected``. The ``user`` argument is
optional and may contain the user who performed the action. The optional ``data`` argument can contain
additional information about this action.
Logging form actions
""""""""""""""""""""
A very common use case is to log the changes to a model that have been done in a ``ModelForm``. In this case,
we generally use a custom ``form_valid`` method on our ``FormView`` that looks like this::
@transaction.atomic
def form_valid(self, form):
if form.has_changed():
self.request.event.log_action('pretix.event.changed', user=self.request.user, data={
k: getattr(self.request.event, k) for k in form.changed_data
})
messages.success(self.request, _('Your changes have been saved.'))
return super().form_valid(form)
It gets a little bit more complicated if your form allows file uploads::
@transaction.atomic
def form_valid(self, form):
if form.has_changed():
self.request.event.log_action(
'pretix.event.changed', user=self.request.user, data={
k: (form.cleaned_data.get(k).name
if isinstance(form.cleaned_data.get(k), File)
else form.cleaned_data.get(k))
for k in form.changed_data
}
)
messages.success(self.request, _('Your changes have been saved.'))
return super().form_valid(form)
Displaying logs
"""""""""""""""
If you want to display the logs of a particular object to a user in the backend, you can use the
following ready-to-include template::
{% include "pretixcontrol/includes/logs.html" with obj=order %}
We now need a way to translate the action codes like ``pretix.event.changed`` into human-readable
strings. The :py:attr:`pretix.base.signals.logentry_display` signals allows you to do so. A simple
implementation could look like::
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
from pretix.base.signals import logentry_display
@receiver(signal=logentry_display)
def pretixcontrol_logentry_display(sender, logentry, **kwargs):
plains = {
'pretix.event.order.paid': _('The order has been marked as paid.'),
'pretix.event.order.refunded': _('The order has been refunded.'),
'pretix.event.order.canceled': _('The order has been canceled.'),
...
}
if logentry.action_type in plains:
return plains[logentry.action_type]
Logging technical information
-----------------------------
If you just want to log technical information to a log file on disk that does not need to be parsed
and displayed later, you can just use Python's ``logging`` module::
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.info('Startup complete.')
This is also very useful to provide debugging information when an exception occurs::
try:
foo()
except:
logger.exception('Error when calling foo()') # Traceback will automatically be appended
messages.error(request, _('An error occured.'))