Log4perl inside a package with custom appender filename

Question

I would like to use Log4perl inside a package to log messages to a custom filename and to the screen.

My mail file test.pl:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use lib '.';
use MyPackage;

helloWorld();

My package file MyPackage.pm:

package MyPackage;
use Exporter;

our @ISA= qw( Exporter );
our @EXPORT_OK = qw( helloWorld );
our @EXPORT = qw( helloWorld );

sub getLogFileName { return "log.txt"; }

my $log_conf = q(
  log4perl.logger = ALL, App, Screen

  log4perl.appender.App          = Log::Log4perl::Appender::File
  log4perl.appender.App.filename = sub { return getLogFileName(); }
  log4perl.appender.App.layout   = Log::Log4perl::Layout::PatternLayout
  log4perl.appender.App.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS} %p %l %m%n

  log4perl.appender.Screen        = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen
  log4perl.appender.Screen.stderr = 0
  log4perl.appender.Screen.layout = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout
);

use Log::Log4perl;
Log::Log4perl::init(\$log_conf);
my $logger = Log::Log4perl->get_logger("MyPackage");

sub helloWorld {
    $logger->trace('this is a TRACE message');
    $logger->debug('this is a DEBUG message');
    $logger->info('this is an INFO message');
    $logger->warn('this is a WARN message');
    $logger->error('this is an ERROR message');
    $logger->fatal('this is a FATAL message');
}

1;

Running test.pl prints out the following error:

Undefined subroutine &main::getLogFileName called at (eval 6) line 1.
Compilation failed in require at ./test.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 4.

• If I place the same package code inside test.pl, it works fine.
• If I place a hard-coded filename in log_conf inside MyPackage.pm, it works fine.

Any suggestions on how to fix the error?

Answer 1

sub { return getLogFileName(); }

This subroutine is, based on the error message, evaluated and executed in the scope of the main package, where there is no getLogFileName() subroutine. Using a fully qualified name instead like

sub { return MyPackage::getLogFileName(); }

will allow it to call the intended function.