XMLLayout2 provides a Python logging Formatter that formats log messages as XML, according to `log4j's XMLLayout specification

XMLLayout formatted log messages can be viewed and filtered within the Chainsaw application (see the example section below), part of the Java based log4j project.

This package also includes a RawSocketHandler -- like logging.handler.SocketHandler, but sends the raw log message over the socket instead of a pickled version. RawSocketHandler can be configured to send log messages to Chainsaw directly over a socket.

For example: to forward log messages to Chainsaw, if it were listening on localhost port 4448::

import logging
import xmllayout2

handler = xmllayout2.RawSocketHandler('localhost', 4448)
handler.setFormatter(xmllayout2.XMLLayout())
logging.root.addHandler(handler)

This is a fork of Philip Jenveys original package xmllayout. Maintained for usage in commercial projects, with supporting a variety of Python versions.

Installation via pip: pip install xmllayout2