Rework diagnostic logging: fix the file writer, add rotation and a ring buffer

Implements steps 1-3 of discussion #644 (deliberately not steps 4/5 --
no signal handler / crash flush, no diagnostics UI; see below).

## Step 1 -- fix the existing logger (bugs, no new behavior)

- One QFile handle held open for the whole session under a mutex,
  instead of opening and closing the log file on every single message.
- The log directory and the session's date-stamped filename are
  resolved exactly once, in the new QetLogger::init() called explicitly
  from main() immediately before qInstallMessageHandler() -- not
  recomputed per message, so a session that runs past midnight now
  stays in one file instead of silently splitting.
- Age-based retention now uses lastModified() instead of lastRead():
  opening a log to attach it to a bug report no longer resets its
  retention clock.
- stderr and file output both encode UTF-8 explicitly (toUtf8()),
  replacing stderr's toLocal8Bit() and the file stream's previously
  Qt5/Qt6-inconsistent default encoding.

## Step 2 -- size-capped rotation + hardening

- The previously-unbounded daily file is now capped at 2 MiB and
  rotated (kMaxFileBytes/kRotationKeep in QetLogger), keeping
  <date>.log plus <date>.1.log .. <date>.4.log; oldest is dropped.
- Each message is truncated to 4 KB with a "...[truncated N bytes]"
  marker before it reaches the ring or the file.
- Control characters (newlines, tabs, other non-printables) in message
  content are escaped, since much of what QET logs is externally
  controlled (file paths, element names, font strings out of a .qet
  file) -- left unescaped, an embedded '\n' could forge log lines.
- The log file is refused if a symlink already exists at that path,
  and is created/rotated owner-read/write only.

## Step 3 -- in-memory ring buffer

- LogRing (sources/logging/logring.h) is a fixed-capacity, always-on
  ring of the last 4096 log lines, preallocated once at construction
  (4096 * 512 B = 2 MiB) so append() never allocates. Entries are
  stored as plain pre-formatted bytes in fixed-size slots -- the shape
  discussion #644 specifies so a *future* crash handler could dump it
  with nothing but write(2), even though no such handler exists yet.
  Thread-safe via a plain QMutex (the lock-free requirement in the
  discussion applies specifically to a signal-handler read path, which
  this step doesn't add).

## Escape hatch

QET_LOG_DISABLE=1 in the environment at startup bypasses all of the
above -- no ring, no file, no rotation -- falling back to a minimal,
self-contained stderr passthrough that doesn't share any code with the
new formatting/sanitization path, so it stays usable even if that path
is what's misbehaving.

## Deliberately not included (per the discussion's own phasing)

- No signal handler / crash-time ring flush (step 4) -- the discussion
  flags this as the highest-risk piece, explicitly meant to land last
  and behind its own switch once the rest is proven.
- No diagnostics export UI (step 5).
- No log categories, session header, repeat collapsing or rate
  limiting -- listed under "best practices worth building in", not
  part of steps 1-3.

## Testing

Built clean, no new warnings.

Verified with real runs (QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen, isolated HOME):
- Log file created at the expected dataDir()/YYYYMMDD.log path, mode
  0600.
- A full startup's worth of real messages (translations, MachineInfo's
  system dump, collection loading) written correctly; every one of the
  231 lines in one run starts with a proper timestamp -- confirmed the
  sanitizer correctly escapes the raw embedded newlines/tabs in
  MachineInfo's multi-line CPU/GPU description fields into visible
  \n/\t sequences rather than letting them fragment the log.
- QET_LOG_DISABLE=1: zero log files created, stderr still worked via
  the independent legacy path.
- Rotation: pre-filled a log to just under the 2 MiB cap, ran a normal
  session, confirmed it rotated to <date>.1.log (still 0600) with a
  byte-clean split (no truncated/duplicated line at the boundary) and
  a fresh <date>.log picked up from the next line.
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parent 834495387b
commit ff812f221a
6 changed files with 636 additions and 123 deletions
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@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
along with QElectroTech. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
#include "cli_export.h"
#include "logging/qetlogger.h"
#include "machine_info.h"
#include "qet.h"
#include "qetapp.h"
@@ -62,131 +63,16 @@ class EarlyFileOpenCatcher : public QObject
#endif
/**
@brief myMessageOutput
for debugging
@param type : the messages that can be sent to a message handler
@param context : were? wat?
@param msg : Message
@brief qetLogMessageHandler
Installed via qInstallMessageHandler(); forwards to QetLogger, which
holds all the actual formatting/ring/rotation state. See
logging/qetlogger.h for the rationale (discussion #644).
*/
void myMessageOutput(QtMsgType type,
void qetLogMessageHandler(QtMsgType type,
const QMessageLogContext &context,
const QString &msg)
{
QString txt=QTime::currentTime().toString("hh:mm:ss.zzz");
QByteArray dbs =txt.toLocal8Bit();
QByteArray localMsg = msg.toLocal8Bit();
const char *file = context.file ? context.file : "";
const char *function = context.function ? context.function : "";
switch (type) {
case QtDebugMsg:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Debug: %s (%s:%u, %s)\n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData(),
file,
context.line,
function);
txt+=" Debug: ";
break;
case QtInfoMsg:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Info: %s \n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData());
txt+=" Info: ";
break;
case QtWarningMsg:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Warning: %s (%s:%u, %s)\n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData(),
file, context.line,
function);
txt+=" Warning: ";
break;
case QtCriticalMsg:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Critical: %s (%s:%u, %s)\n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData(),
file,
context.line,
function);
txt+=" Critical: ";
break;
case QtFatalMsg:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Fatal: %s (%s:%u, %s)\n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData(),
file,
context.line,
function);
txt+=" Fatal: ";
break;
default:
fprintf(stderr,
"%s Unknown: %s (%s:%u, %s)\n",
dbs.constData(),
localMsg.constData(),
file,
context.line,
function);
txt+=" Unknown: ";
}
txt+= msg;
if(type==QtInfoMsg){
txt+=" \n";
} else {
txt+= " (";
txt+= context.file ? context.file : "";
txt+= ":";
txt+=QString::number(context.line ? context.line :0);
txt+= ", ";
txt+= context.function ? context.function : "";
txt+=")\n";
}
QFile outFile(QETApp::dataDir()
+"/"
+QDate::currentDate().toString("yyyyMMdd")
+".log");
if(outFile.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly | QIODevice::Append))
{
QTextStream ts(&outFile);
ts << txt;
}
outFile.close();
}
/**
@brief delete_old_log_files
delete old log files
@param days : max days old
*/
void delete_old_log_files(int days)
{
const QDate today = QDate::currentDate();
const QString path = QETApp::dataDir() % "/";
QString filter("%1%1%1%1%1%1%1%1.log"); // pattern
filter = filter.arg("[0123456789]"); // valid characters
Q_FOREACH (auto fileInfo,
QDir(path).entryInfoList(
QStringList(filter),
QDir::Files))
{
if (fileInfo.lastRead().date().daysTo(today) > days)
{
QString filepath = fileInfo.absoluteFilePath();
QDir deletefile;
deletefile.setPath(filepath);
deletefile.remove(filepath);
qDebug() << "File " % filepath % " is deleted!";
}
}
QetLogger::instance().handleMessage(type, context, msg);
}
/**
@@ -253,13 +139,19 @@ QGuiApplication::setHighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy(QetSettings::hdpiScaleFacto
}
}
// Resolve the logger's state (log directory, session filename, open
// file handle) explicitly here, immediately before installing the
// handler -- not implicitly on whichever thread happens to log
// first. See QetLogger::init().
//
// Install the log-file message handler BEFORE the application starts:
// QETApp's constructor does the whole startup (collections, editor,
// opening the projects given on the command line), so installing the
// handler afterwards - as was done in the startup worker below - meant
// exactly the interesting lines (collection and project load timers)
// went to stderr, which is invisible in a Windows GUI session.
qInstallMessageHandler(myMessageOutput);
QetLogger::instance().init();
qInstallMessageHandler(qetLogMessageHandler);
SingleApplication app(argc, argv, true);
#ifdef Q_OS_MACOS
@@ -308,7 +200,7 @@ QGuiApplication::setHighDpiScaleFactorRoundingPolicy(QetSettings::hdpiScaleFacto
{
qInfo("Start-up");
// delete old log files of max 7 days old.
delete_old_log_files(7);
QetLogger::instance().pruneOldLogFiles(7);
MachineInfo::instance()->send_info_to_debug();
});
return app.exec();