Xlog ships with a CLI that includes the core and all official extensions. There are cases where you need custom set of extensions:
- Maybe you need only the core features without any extension
- Maybe there is an extension that you don’t need or want or misbehaving
- Maybe you developed a set of extensions and you want to include them in your installations
Here is how you can build your own custom xlog with features you select.
Creating a Go module ¶
Create a directory for your custom installation and initialize a go module in it.
1mkdir custom_xlog
2cd custom_xlog
3go mod init github.com/yourusername/custom_xlog
Main file ¶
Then create a file xlog.go for example with the following content
1package main
2
3import (
4 // Core
5 "github.com/emad-elsaid/xlog"
6
7 // All official extensions
8 _ "github.com/emad-elsaid/xlog/extensions/all"
9)
10
11func main() {
12 xlog.Start()
13}
Selecting extensions ¶
The previous file is what xlog ships in cmd/xlog/xlog.go if you missed up at any point feel free to go back to it and copy it from there.
If you want to select specific extensions you can replace extensions/all line with a list of extensions that you want.
All extensions are imported to extensions/all/all.go. feel free to copy any of them as needed.
You can also import any extensions that you developed at this point.
Running your custom xlog ¶
Now use Go to run your custom installation
1go get github.com/emad-elsaid/xlog
2go run xlog.go