We need to do better logging in Karbon, both developer logging at design time, and process logging at runtime. This video covers some of the progress we have made towards solidifying our approach to logging.

Why not just use DBTransactions?

It is tempting to use the DBTransactions table as our log, and in fact, it includes many log-like features. However, DBTransactions is really about database transactions, not logging. Logging is really a separate thing, which has many nuances of its own. Conflating the two concerns is probably not wise in the long run.

Logging from within Transaction

The other problem is that you want to log info from within a transaction and make sure that data stays even if the transaction is reverted. So step 1 is to develop a log method for logging within the transaction. That “transaction log” can later be sent of to the main log, which we’ll get to later.

This feature is not yet “done”. More work needs to go into generic logging, and process logging. Stay tuned for that.

Karbon Info

Karbon is our free framework for building complex apps. We share rough updates like this from time to time because people have expressed interest in what we are doing. For more info on Karbon see here.