Implicit stringify converter from log methods about scribe

[darkfrog26]

The purpose behind this is to support original types being able to be received by the logging system. For example, if I'm writing a database logger and want to provide a structured logging of specific types I can do so in Scribe. For most people, they always just pass Strings, and in your case, you can use:

import scribe.LogRecord.Stringify._

That will give you implicit conversion support for Throwable. I need to write an update to auto-handle that though.

I appreciate the feedback, and it's a rather new feature that still needs to be iterated upon, but the goal is the capacity to access more than just a String when desired for more complex logging.

[cornerman]

Thanks for the explanation. For me, this sounds like a typeclass would be more suited for this, because I find implicit views kind of dangerous to use. If you have them in scope, you can have funny type conversion just by accident. What do you think?

So defining a Loggable for e.g. Throwable would be much more explicit:

object Loggable {
  implicit object ThrowableLoggable extends Loggable[Throwable] {
     def logString(t: Throwable) = t.getMessage // or whatever
  }
}

So this would even work without an additional import.

[darkfrog26]

Interested in putting together a PR to represent this? I'm not opposed to the idea, but I'm worried there might be integration issues.

[darkfrog26]

PR merged, closing.

[darkfrog26]

Released 2.3.2 with these changes