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Creating a Custom Layout

You can easily create a custom layout object by creating a cfc that extends our abstract layout object: logbox.system.logging.Layout and implementing a format() method. Below you can see the method signature:

All you need to do is inspect the logging event and create your very own message and then return it back. That's it! You thought there was more?

Instance Members

Every layout has access to the following public variables:

A reference to the coldbox.system.logging.LogLevels class.

A line separator equal to chr(13) & chr(10).

Creating a Custom Layout

All you need to do is inspect the logging event and create your very own message and then return it back. That's it! You thought there was more?

<---  format --->
<cffunction name="format" output="false" access="public" returntype="string" hint="Format a logging event message into your own format">
    <cfargument name="logEvent" type="logbox.system.logging.LogEvent"   required="true"   hint="The logging event to use to create a message.">
</cffunction>