Day 26: Logging

To see if all what I want to control on the engine is working the way I like, I need to log all that it does. This is the first approach to this:

Important: In Windows 7 you need to run GoGui in Administrator Mode.

I made methods to:

1. Log any String I want.
2. Log the date and time
3. Log the board as it is in the moment.

  public class ETLog { private File myFile; public void log(String text){ myFile=new File("G:\\EvilTesuji\\ETLOG.TXT"); myFile.setWritable(true); try { if(!myFile.exists()){ try { myFile.createNewFile(); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } FileWriter fr=new FileWriter(myFile.getName(),true); try (BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fr)) { bw.write(text+"\r\n"); bw.close(); } } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } public void logDate(){ DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"); Date date = new Date(); myFile=new File("G:\\EvilTesuji\\ETLOG.TXT"); myFile.setWritable(true); try { if(!myFile.exists()){ try { myFile.createNewFile(); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } FileWriter fr=new FileWriter(myFile.getName(),true); BufferedWriter bw=new BufferedWriter(fr); bw.write(dateFormat.format(date)+"\n"); bw.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } public void logBoard(Board board,int size){ int i,j; int pointer=0; //pointer to know the place in the arraylist. String line=""; ArrayList<integer> b=new ArrayList<>(); b=board.getMainBoard(); myFile=new File("G:\\EvilTesuji\\ETLOG.TXT"); myFile.setWritable(true); try { if(!myFile.exists()){ try { myFile.createNewFile(); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } FileWriter fr=new FileWriter(myFile.getName(),true); BufferedWriter bw=new BufferedWriter(fr); for(i=0;i<size+2;i++){ for(j=0;j<=size;j++){ switch(b.get(pointer)){ case 0: line=line+"0"; break; case 1: line=line+"B"; break; case 2: line=line+"W"; break; case 3: line=line+"#"; break; } pointer++; } line=line+"#"; //putting the right border bw.write(line+"\n"); line=""; } bw.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(ETLog.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } }

I have to make some changes but the basic idea works. Now I can delete console class and replace it with this.