NAME
   Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessLog - AccessLog Plugin

VERSION
   Version 0.003

SYNOPSIS
     # Mojolicious
     $self->plugin(AccessLog => {log => '/var/log/mojo/access.log'});

     # Mojolicious::Lite
     plugin AccessLog => {log => '/var/log/mojo/access.log'};

DESCRIPTION
   Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessLog is a plugin to easily generate an access
   log.

OPTIONS
   Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessLog supports the following options.

 "log"
   Log data destination.

   Default: "$app->log->handle", so that access log lines go to the same
   destination as lines created with "$app->log->$method(...)".

   This option may be set to one of the following values:

  Absolute path
     plugin AccessLog => {log => '/var/log/mojo/access.log'};

   A string specifying an absolute path to the log file. If the file does
   not exist already, it will be created, otherwise log output will be
   appended to the file. The log directory must exist in every case though.

  Relative path
     # Mojolicious::Lite
     plugin AccessLog => {log => 'log/access.log'};

   Similar to absolute path, but relative to the application home
   directory.

  File Handle
     open $fh, '>', '/var/log/mojo/access.log';
     plugin AccessLog => {log => $fh};

     plugin AccessLog => {log => \*STDERR};

   A file handle to which log lines are printed.

  Object
     $log = IO::File->new('/var/log/mojo/access.log', O_WRONLY|O_APPEND);
     plugin AccessLog => {log => $log};

     $log = Log::Dispatch->new(...);
     plugin AccessLog => {log => $log};

   An object, that implements either a "print" method (like IO::Handle
   based classes) or an "info" method (i.e. Log::Dispatch or
   Log::Log4perl).

  Callback routine
     $log = Log::Dispatch->new(...);
     plugin AccessLog => {
       log => sub { $log->log(level => 'debug', message => @_) }
     };

   A code reference. The provided subroutine will be called for every log
   line, that it gets as a single argument.

 "format"
   A string to specify the format of each line of log output.

   Default: "common" (see below).

   This plugin implements a subset of Apache's LogFormat
   <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html>.

   %%  A percent sign.

   %a  Remote IP-address.

   %A  Local IP-address.

   %b  Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers. In CLF format,
       i.e. a '-' rather than a 0 when no bytes are sent.

   %B  Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers.

   %D  The time taken to serve the request, in microseconds.

   %h  Remote host. See "hostname_lookups" below.

   %H  The request protocol.

   %l  The remote logname, not implemented: currently always '-'.

   %m  The request method.

   %p  The port of the server serving the request.

   %P  The process ID of the child that serviced the request.

   %r  First line of request: Request method, request URL and request
       protocol. Synthesized from other fields, so it may not be the
       request verbatim.

   %s  The HTTP status code of the response.

   %t  Time the request was received (standard english format).

   %T  Custom field for handling times in subclasses.

   %u  Remote user, or '-'.

   %U  The URL path requested, not including any query string.

   %v  The name of the server serving the request.

   %V  The name of the server serving the request.

   In addition, custom values can be referenced, using "%{name}", with one
   of the mandatory modifier flags "i", "o", "t", "C" or "e":

   %{RequestHeaderName}i
       The contents of request header "RequestHeaderName".

   %{ResponseHeaderName}o
       The contents of response header "ResponseHeaderName".

   %{Format}t
       The time, in the form given by "Format", which should be in
       strftime(3) format.

   %{CookieName}C
       The contents of cookie "CookieName" in the request sent to the
       server.

   %{VariableName}e
       The contents of environment variable "VariableName".

   Non-printable bytes are replaced by an escape sequence of "\x.." with
   ".." being the hexadecimal code of the replaced byte.

   For mostly historical reasons template names "common" or "combined" can
   also be used:

   common
         %h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b

   combined
         %h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"

   These format template names have two drawbacks though:

   1.  The username (%u) is not quoted, but a username is allowed to
       contain spaces. As a consequence, log file parsers might lose track
       of the right fields. To get around this, spaces in usernames are
       replaced by "\x20" if one of the format template names is used.

   2.  The remote logname %l as provided by an ident service is not usefull
       these days and therefore not supported, %l is always substituted by
       a hyphen ("-").

 "hostname_lookups"
   Enable reverse DNS hostname lookup if "true". Keep in mind, that this
   adds latency to every request, if %h is part of the log line, because it
   requires a DNS lookup to complete before the request is finished.
   Default is "false" (= disabled).

 "uname_helper"
     plugin AccessLog => {
       log => '/var/log/mojo/access.log',
       uname_helper => 'set_username',
     };

     ...

     # custom authentication for all following resources
     under => sub {
       my $self = shift;
       my $username = $self->param('username') || '';

       if ($username =~ /^mc/) {   # Scottish only
         $self->set_username($username);
       }
       else {
         $self->render('denied');
         return undef;
       }
     };

   Define a name for a helper to set the username. The default is to use
   the username part of the "userinfo" in Mojo::URL. With a custom
   "uname_helper" any identifier can be set for the user value in the log
   file.

METHODS
   Mojolicious::Plugin::AccessLog inherits all methods from
   Mojolicious::Plugin and implements the following new ones.

 "register"
     $plugin->register(
       Mojolicious->new, {
         log => '/var/log/mojo/access.log',
         format => 'combined',
       }
     );

   Register plugin hooks in Mojolicious application.

SEE ALSO
   Mojolicious, Plack::Middleware::AccessLog, Catalyst::Plugin::AccessLog,
   <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html>.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
   Many thanks to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for Plack::Middleware::AccessLog and
   Andrew Rodland for Catalyst::Plugin::AccessLog.
   "Mojolicious:Plugin::AccessLog" borrows a lot of code and ideas from
   those modules.

AUTHOR
   Bernhard Graf <graf(a)cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
   Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 Bernhard Graf

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.

   See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> for more information.