The 'net' singleton has removed the 'log' function. It is now its own singleton. HoggitWorld documentation is out of date.

[TEMPEST.114]

So I know the documentation, such that it is and unofficial etc, but here: https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_singleton_net

It says that there are many functions, including 'log', in that singleton.

However, when looking into it via Visual Studio Code (https://github.com/asherao/DCS-Scripting-Library), log and many of the others, is no longer inside 'net'.

e.g.

I understand these are a third party creation so they can't be relied to be The Truth.

So, I did an investigation. I made a logging script with a logging function:

function LogWrite(moduleString, level, message, ...)
  
  -- THIS FAILS
  net.log.write(moduleString, net.log[level:upper()], string.format(message, ...))
  
  -- THIS WORKS
  log.write(moduleString, log[level:upper()], string.format(message, ...))

end

If log is supposed to exist inside the 'net' singleton, then the first line should work, however it only works as it's own 'singleton' or a global function.

Can we get some clarification on this please?

@Grimes Do you have any thoughts or knowledge about why log breaks with net.log?  
 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2024 by Elphaba

[TEMPEST.114]

It seems at some point 'log' became it's own singleton; if you scrape all the .lua files in DCS World then they all do things like this:

  D:\DCS World\MissionEditor\modules\MeSettings.lua
    Line   4: local log              = require('log')

So I'm guessing this happened at some point after the unofficial documentation was made and it's out of date. 

I think I answered my own question. LOL