Logger

Sendbird Chat SDK for Android offers a logging system that allows you to keep track of a number of events and activities including data flow, error, and information while running your application. You can closely monitor the operation of the Sendbird SDK and improve debug efficiency using our logging system.

The logger of Sendbird Chat SDK for Android is based on the log levels classified by Android. Log levels can be used to categorize and control log outputs. There are a total of six log levels, which are ALL (VERBOSE), DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, and NONE. Except NONE, five different log levels take precedence over the other in the following order: ALL (VERBOSE) > DEBUG > INFO > WARN > ERROR. Or you can use NONE in order not to keep Sendbird logs.

Note: If an unexpected behavior is caused by a user's mistake or environmental factors, the behavior falls into WARN. If it is due to the Sendbird SDK or Sendbird internal operations, it falls into ERROR.

The default log level set for Sendbird Chat SDK for Android is LogLevel.WARN, which means that Sendbird Chat SDK will keep logs of both errors and warning messages. You can change the settings through the setLoggerLevel() method in the SendBird class as follows:

SendBird.setLoggerLevel(SendBird.LogLevel.VERBOSE);

The following sample code demonstrates what Sendbird Chat SDK prints for each log level.

@deprecated
function submit_to_server(msg: String) {
    Logger.d("msg=" + msg) // This is a DEBUG log with a message.
    Logger.w("this method is deprecated. Please use submit_to_server_V2 instead.") // This is a WARN log.

    retry_count = 0
    response = null
    success = false

    while (retry_count is less than 3) {
        success = server.submit(msg)
        if (success) break

        Logger.e("submission failed with reason=" + server.get_last_fail_reason) // This is an ERROR log containing the cause of the error.
        Logger.v("retry_count=" + retry_count) // This is a VERBOSE stating the retry count.
        retry_count++
    }

    if (success) {
        Logger.i("echo succeeded with parameter msg=" + msg) // This is an INFO log with a message.
        return
    }

    Logger.i("echo failed with parameter msg=" + msg)
}

All Sendbird Chat SDK log messages are tagged with Sendbird. If you want to see the log messages from Sendbird Chat SDK, search for the messages with a keyword Sendbird.