Logger.lua - a network logging program (alpha/beta)

[Kodos 3]

I'm not much for forum post making, so here goes.

 

I basically made a program that when ran, will keep listening on the network (Works wirelessly, too!) for modem_message events, and will write them to file.  Just type 'logger' to get a usage printout.

 

Code is in the spoiler =) or if you prefer being lazy...

pastebin get DbYMfRj4 logger.lua

-- We require our libraries and modules here

local component = require("component")

local modem = component.modem

local io = require("io")

local event = require("event")

local fs = require("filesystem")



-- This line will allow the user to easily specify how many

-- ports, and messages, we want to use with the program.

local ports, msgs = ...



-- This ensures that the proper amount of arguments are being used,

-- and if not, will display proper usage of running the program

if #({...}) ~= 2 then

error("Usage: Logger (# of ports to listen to, starting at 1) (# of messages to write to file before program ends.", 0)

return

end



-- You can ignore this snippet of code, unless you're

-- ping. Or unless you really want to wait half an hour

-- for all ports to open. Luckily if you're running this

-- on a Minecraft server, you will only need to do this once,

-- so long as you set a high enough message count.

if ports == "potato" then

ports = 65535

end



-- This is to check whether or not the argument being passed

-- as ports is actually a number, and not words or symbols.

if not tonumber(ports) then

error("The port needs to be a number!",0)

return

end



-- Same thing as our first check, only here we're checking the

-- messages amount argument.

if not tonumber(msgs) then

error("The amount of messages needs to be a number!", 0)

return

end



-- Now, we have to open our ports that we want to listen to.

-- Note the maximum on our range is the variable we defined in our

-- first argument.

for prt = 1,ports do

modem.open(prt)

end



-- This is where the magic happens. This is where we open our log file, or

-- create one if it doesn't exist, and listen for messages to write to our

-- file until we've caught enough messages to satisfy our second argument.

local h = io.open("Logs.txt", "a")

for n = 1, tonumber(msgs) do

local _, _, from, port, _, message = event.pull("modem_message")

print("Got a message from " .. from .. " on port " .. port .. ": " .. tostring(message))

h:write("Got a message from " .. from .. " on port " .. port .. ": " .. tostring(message) .. "\n")

end



-- Now that we have enough messages, we can close the ports we opened earlier on.

modem.close()

-- Notice I didn't specify a port? That's because

-- by default in OC, when a port isn't defined, all

-- ports are closed when this method is called.



-- Now we must close our log file to ensure that it saves.

h:close()



-- This lets the user know that the logs were successfully saved.

-- Huzzah!

print("Saved logs to Logs.txt.")

 

 

[PixelToast 5]

nice

+Ð50 for the potato

[Antheus 4]

Here, take my cake for the mention of a potato. My race is proud.