---
name: "Log::Message::Handlers"
section: "3perl"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-doc"
version: "5.14.2-21+deb7u3"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Log::Message::Handlers"
---

# Log::Message::Handlers(3perl)

Message handlers for Log::Message

## NAME

Log::Message::Handlers - Message handlers for Log::Message

## SYNOPSIS

```
    # Implicitly used by Log::Message to serve as handlers for
    # Log::Message::Item objects
    # Create your own file with a package called
    # Log::Message::Handlers to add to the existing ones, or to even
    # overwrite them
    $item->carp;
    $item->trace;
```

## DESCRIPTION

Log::Message::Handlers provides handlers for Log::Message::Item objects. The handler corresponding to the level (see Log::Message::Item manpage for an explanation about levels) will be called automatically upon storing the error.

Handlers may also explicitly be called on an Log::Message::Item object if one so desires (see the Log::Message manpage on how to retrieve the Item objects).

## Default Handlers

### log

Will simply log the error on the stack, and do nothing special

### carp

Will carp (see the Carp manpage) with the error, and add the timestamp of when it occurred.

### croak

Will croak (see the Carp manpage) with the error, and add the timestamp of when it occurred.

### cluck

Will cluck (see the Carp manpage) with the error, and add the timestamp of when it occurred.

### confess

Will confess (see the Carp manpage) with the error, and add the timestamp of when it occurred

### die

Will simply die with the error message of the item

### warn

Will simply warn with the error message of the item

### trace

Will provide a traceback of this error item back to the first one that occurred, clucking with every item as it comes across it.

## Custom Handlers

If you wish to provide your own handlers, you can simply do the following:

- •

  Create a file that holds a package by the name of `"Log::Message::Handlers"`

- •

  Create subroutines with the same name as the levels you wish to handle in the Log::Message module (see the Log::Message manpage for explanation on levels)

- •

  Require that file in your program, or add it in your configuration (see the Log::Message::Config manpage for explanation on how to use a config file)

And that is it, the handler will now be available to handle messages for you.

The arguments a handler may receive are those specified by the `"extra"` key, when storing the message. See the Log::Message manpage for details on the arguments.

## SEE ALSO

Log::Message, Log::Message::Item, Log::Message::Config

## AUTHOR

This module by Jos Boumans \<kane@cpan.org\>.

## Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ann Barcomb for her suggestions.

## COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (c) 2002 Jos Boumans \<kane@cpan.org\>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.