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<task id="GUID-E4A950EA-5671-5755-B3EF-5D6B90E19AE6" xml:lang="en"><title>Maintaining

Log Events </title><shortdesc>This tutorial describes how to maintain events using Log Engine. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<context id="GUID-9230A593-9E3C-52B2-81F3-6C54F7E6015E"><p>You maintain a

log by adding, changing and deleting events with the appropriate calls to

the <xref href="GUID-51C67545-12BA-326D-BD8F-662B24C68ED2.dita"><apiname>CLogClient</apiname></xref> member of your application. When you are

adding or changing events, the arguments are a <xref href="GUID-CDFB61A7-1C74-3F63-9FDF-5A3B8603A010.dita"><apiname>CLogEvent</apiname></xref> and

a <xref href="GUID-E0B34F3E-D4C4-3232-B8B1-7DB35B454646.dita"><apiname>TRequestStatus</apiname></xref> object to hold the return value. When

you are deleting, they are a <xref href="GUID-CDFB61A7-1C74-3F63-9FDF-5A3B8603A010.dita"><apiname>CLogEvent</apiname></xref> and a <xref href="GUID-271367A8-DD4F-3A82-AD88-F3E94F2AA980.dita"><apiname>TLogId</apiname></xref>. </p> <p>It

is sometimes necessary to create a custom event type. If you want to log events

of a custom created event type, you need to initialize a <xref href="GUID-E7CCB043-770E-3722-B735-92B65CC7A0D8.dita"><apiname>CLogEventType</apiname></xref> object

and add it to the log. You add the event type when you install your application,

and delete it if you uninstall the application. You add, change and delete

custom event types by calling the appropriate functions of a <xref href="GUID-51C67545-12BA-326D-BD8F-662B24C68ED2.dita"><apiname>CLogClient</apiname></xref> object: </p> <p> <codeph>iLogClient-&gt;AddEventType(*iLogEventType,

iStatus);</codeph>  </p> <p> <codeph>iLogClient-&gt;ChangeEventType(*iLogEventType,

iStatus);</codeph>  </p> <p> <codeph>iLogClient-&gt;DeleteEventType(aId, iStatus);</codeph>  </p> <p>The

arguments are a <xref href="GUID-E7CCB043-770E-3722-B735-92B65CC7A0D8.dita"><apiname>CLogEventType</apiname></xref> (or <xref href="GUID-530281E6-29FC-33F2-BC9B-610FBA389444.dita"><apiname>TUid</apiname></xref> when

deleting) and a <xref href="GUID-E0B34F3E-D4C4-3232-B8B1-7DB35B454646.dita"><apiname>TRequestStatus</apiname></xref> object. </p><p> To maintain

log events, do the following:  </p> </context>

<steps id="GUID-41BB11DF-8016-58A1-9291-674C9CE396C3">

<step id="GUID-474DF156-F653-569E-B038-446B11A788A4"><cmd>declare an event

as a member of your log client class </cmd>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-EA8E98C3-B225-5AFD-A107-5C62603F87D8" xml:space="preserve">CLogEvent* iCurrentEvent;</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-09506C94-0251-503D-96CF-03F13296EB8E"><cmd/>

<info>initialize the event using its member functions </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-4300C98A-EEB4-5041-871F-5B76702D6061" xml:space="preserve">iCurrentLogEvent = CLogEvent::NewL();

...

iCurrentLogEvent-&gt;SetTime(time);</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-18909AB0-6248-5FE5-A7ED-397F611AD412"><cmd/>

<info>add an event to a log with the <xref href="GUID-91804418-6DCC-3ACF-BA1E-399B112285A3.dita"><apiname>AddEvent()</apiname></xref> function

of a <xref href="GUID-51C67545-12BA-326D-BD8F-662B24C68ED2.dita"><apiname>CLogClient</apiname></xref> object </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-8048721D-C397-5DE3-8B94-113DA2801605" xml:space="preserve">iLogClient-&gt;AddEvent(*iLogEvent, iStatus);</codeblock> </stepxmp>

<info> <xref href="GUID-91804418-6DCC-3ACF-BA1E-399B112285A3.dita"><apiname>AddEvent()</apiname></xref> creates an asynchronous request and no

other asynchronous request must be outstanding when you call it. For this

reason, the <xref href="GUID-CDFB61A7-1C74-3F63-9FDF-5A3B8603A010.dita"><apiname>CLogEvent</apiname></xref> argument is typically read off a

queue of events waiting to be processed. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-4AB54E42-D28E-5806-B8F4-2F2A7B69880B"><cmd/>

<info>change an event record with the <xref href="GUID-C8F2B567-6B68-3460-9799-6658DF3771A8.dita"><apiname>ChangeEvent()</apiname></xref> function. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-B9D07568-3A3B-5A1D-8F91-B470CB95281F" xml:space="preserve">iLogClient-&gt;ChangeEvent(*iLogEvent, iStatus);</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

</steps>

<result id="GUID-306D0963-3299-59BB-BBCA-B0DDFD945F93"><p> Note that it is

not possible to change the event type of an event after  it has been added

to the log.  </p><p>The events specified by the log engine clients are maintained. </p> </result>

<postreq id="GUID-E9031A12-D139-5D86-A54D-99174D9A8012"><p>You do not normally

need to delete an event. A log has a maximum size which the log engine maintains

automatically by deleting the oldest events when newly added events would

cause the maximum to be exceeded. If you want to delete an event for other

reasons you call the <codeph>DeleteEvent()</codeph> function. <codeph>iLogClient-&gt;DeleteEvent(aLogId,

iStatus);</codeph>  </p> <p>It is important to know that deleting an event

type and deleting the actual events of that type are two separate actions.

If you just delete the type and not the events, the events will remain in

the log but have no type. </p> <p> </p> </postreq>

</taskbody><related-links>

<link href="GUID-BE65B3A7-04E8-5406-B46A-09E2608E0F1F.dita"><linktext>Requesting

Log Engine Notifications</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-2022F702-9899-5798-8932-D70119C7177D.dita"><linktext>Setting Up

A Log Engine Client</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-55ECBCF5-FC29-5A4A-A3C6-1CB1C0D562CE.dita"><linktext>Displaying

Log Events</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-BCB0E50F-B22E-5964-BB68-BEE1870D9C79.dita"><linktext>Configuring

Log Engine </linktext></link>

</related-links></task>