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+// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/*
+Package slog provides structured logging,
+in which log records include a message,
+a severity level, and various other attributes
+expressed as key-value pairs.
+
+It defines a type, [Logger],
+which provides several methods (such as [Logger.Info] and [Logger.Error])
+for reporting events of interest.
+
+Each Logger is associated with a [Handler].
+A Logger output method creates a [Record] from the method arguments
+and passes it to the Handler, which decides how to handle it.
+There is a default Logger accessible through top-level functions
+(such as [Info] and [Error]) that call the corresponding Logger methods.
+
+A log record consists of a time, a level, a message, and a set of key-value
+pairs, where the keys are strings and the values may be of any type.
+As an example,
+
+ slog.Info("hello", "count", 3)
+
+creates a record containing the time of the call,
+a level of Info, the message "hello", and a single
+pair with key "count" and value 3.
+
+The [Info] top-level function calls the [Logger.Info] method on the default Logger.
+In addition to [Logger.Info], there are methods for Debug, Warn and Error levels.
+Besides these convenience methods for common levels,
+there is also a [Logger.Log] method which takes the level as an argument.
+Each of these methods has a corresponding top-level function that uses the
+default logger.
+
+The default handler formats the log record's message, time, level, and attributes
+as a string and passes it to the [log] package.
+
+ 2022/11/08 15:28:26 INFO hello count=3
+
+For more control over the output format, create a logger with a different handler.
+This statement uses [New] to create a new logger with a TextHandler
+that writes structured records in text form to standard error:
+
+ logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(os.Stderr, nil))
+
+[TextHandler] output is a sequence of key=value pairs, easily and unambiguously
+parsed by machine. This statement:
+
+ logger.Info("hello", "count", 3)
+
+produces this output:
+
+ time=2022-11-08T15:28:26.000-05:00 level=INFO msg=hello count=3
+
+The package also provides [JSONHandler], whose output is line-delimited JSON:
+
+ logger := slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stdout, nil))
+ logger.Info("hello", "count", 3)
+
+produces this output:
+
+ {"time":"2022-11-08T15:28:26.000000000-05:00","level":"INFO","msg":"hello","count":3}
+
+Both [TextHandler] and [JSONHandler] can be configured with [HandlerOptions].
+There are options for setting the minimum level (see Levels, below),
+displaying the source file and line of the log call, and
+modifying attributes before they are logged.
+
+Setting a logger as the default with
+
+ slog.SetDefault(logger)
+
+will cause the top-level functions like [Info] to use it.
+[SetDefault] also updates the default logger used by the [log] package,
+so that existing applications that use [log.Printf] and related functions
+will send log records to the logger's handler without needing to be rewritten.
+
+Some attributes are common to many log calls.
+For example, you may wish to include the URL or trace identifier of a server request
+with all log events arising from the request.
+Rather than repeat the attribute with every log call, you can use [Logger.With]
+to construct a new Logger containing the attributes:
+
+ logger2 := logger.With("url", r.URL)
+
+The arguments to With are the same key-value pairs used in [Logger.Info].
+The result is a new Logger with the same handler as the original, but additional
+attributes that will appear in the output of every call.
+
+# Levels
+
+A [Level] is an integer representing the importance or severity of a log event.
+The higher the level, the more severe the event.
+This package defines constants for the most common levels,
+but any int can be used as a level.
+
+In an application, you may wish to log messages only at a certain level or greater.
+One common configuration is to log messages at Info or higher levels,
+suppressing debug logging until it is needed.
+The built-in handlers can be configured with the minimum level to output by
+setting [HandlerOptions.Level].
+The program's `main` function typically does this.
+The default value is LevelInfo.
+
+Setting the [HandlerOptions.Level] field to a [Level] value
+fixes the handler's minimum level throughout its lifetime.
+Setting it to a [LevelVar] allows the level to be varied dynamically.
+A LevelVar holds a Level and is safe to read or write from multiple
+goroutines.
+To vary the level dynamically for an entire program, first initialize
+a global LevelVar:
+
+ var programLevel = new(slog.LevelVar) // Info by default
+
+Then use the LevelVar to construct a handler, and make it the default:
+
+ h := slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stderr, &slog.HandlerOptions{Level: programLevel})
+ slog.SetDefault(slog.New(h))
+
+Now the program can change its logging level with a single statement:
+
+ programLevel.Set(slog.LevelDebug)
+
+# Groups
+
+Attributes can be collected into groups.
+A group has a name that is used to qualify the names of its attributes.
+How this qualification is displayed depends on the handler.
+[TextHandler] separates the group and attribute names with a dot.
+[JSONHandler] treats each group as a separate JSON object, with the group name as the key.
+
+Use [Group] to create a Group attribute from a name and a list of key-value pairs:
+
+ slog.Group("request",
+ "method", r.Method,
+ "url", r.URL)
+
+TextHandler would display this group as
+
+ request.method=GET request.url=http://example.com
+
+JSONHandler would display it as
+
+ "request":{"method":"GET","url":"http://example.com"}
+
+Use [Logger.WithGroup] to qualify all of a Logger's output
+with a group name. Calling WithGroup on a Logger results in a
+new Logger with the same Handler as the original, but with all
+its attributes qualified by the group name.
+
+This can help prevent duplicate attribute keys in large systems,
+where subsystems might use the same keys.
+Pass each subsystem a different Logger with its own group name so that
+potential duplicates are qualified:
+
+ logger := slog.Default().With("id", systemID)
+ parserLogger := logger.WithGroup("parser")
+ parseInput(input, parserLogger)
+
+When parseInput logs with parserLogger, its keys will be qualified with "parser",
+so even if it uses the common key "id", the log line will have distinct keys.
+
+# Contexts
+
+Some handlers may wish to include information from the [context.Context] that is
+available at the call site. One example of such information
+is the identifier for the current span when tracing is enabled.
+
+The [Logger.Log] and [Logger.LogAttrs] methods take a context as a first
+argument, as do their corresponding top-level functions.
+
+Although the convenience methods on Logger (Info and so on) and the
+corresponding top-level functions do not take a context, the alternatives ending
+in "Context" do. For example,
+
+ slog.InfoContext(ctx, "message")
+
+It is recommended to pass a context to an output method if one is available.
+
+# Attrs and Values
+
+An [Attr] is a key-value pair. The Logger output methods accept Attrs as well as
+alternating keys and values. The statement
+
+ slog.Info("hello", slog.Int("count", 3))
+
+behaves the same as
+
+ slog.Info("hello", "count", 3)
+
+There are convenience constructors for [Attr] such as [Int], [String], and [Bool]
+for common types, as well as the function [Any] for constructing Attrs of any
+type.
+
+The value part of an Attr is a type called [Value].
+Like an [any], a Value can hold any Go value,
+but it can represent typical values, including all numbers and strings,
+without an allocation.
+
+For the most efficient log output, use [Logger.LogAttrs].
+It is similar to [Logger.Log] but accepts only Attrs, not alternating
+keys and values; this allows it, too, to avoid allocation.
+
+The call
+
+ logger.LogAttrs(nil, slog.LevelInfo, "hello", slog.Int("count", 3))
+
+is the most efficient way to achieve the same output as
+
+ slog.Info("hello", "count", 3)
+
+# Customizing a type's logging behavior
+
+If a type implements the [LogValuer] interface, the [Value] returned from its LogValue
+method is used for logging. You can use this to control how values of the type
+appear in logs. For example, you can redact secret information like passwords,
+or gather a struct's fields in a Group. See the examples under [LogValuer] for
+details.
+
+A LogValue method may return a Value that itself implements [LogValuer]. The [Value.Resolve]
+method handles these cases carefully, avoiding infinite loops and unbounded recursion.
+Handler authors and others may wish to use Value.Resolve instead of calling LogValue directly.
+
+# Wrapping output methods
+
+The logger functions use reflection over the call stack to find the file name
+and line number of the logging call within the application. This can produce
+incorrect source information for functions that wrap slog. For instance, if you
+define this function in file mylog.go:
+
+ func Infof(format string, args ...any) {
+ slog.Default().Info(fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
+ }
+
+and you call it like this in main.go:
+
+ Infof(slog.Default(), "hello, %s", "world")
+
+then slog will report the source file as mylog.go, not main.go.
+
+A correct implementation of Infof will obtain the source location
+(pc) and pass it to NewRecord.
+The Infof function in the package-level example called "wrapping"
+demonstrates how to do this.
+
+# Working with Records
+
+Sometimes a Handler will need to modify a Record
+before passing it on to another Handler or backend.
+A Record contains a mixture of simple public fields (e.g. Time, Level, Message)
+and hidden fields that refer to state (such as attributes) indirectly. This
+means that modifying a simple copy of a Record (e.g. by calling
+[Record.Add] or [Record.AddAttrs] to add attributes)
+may have unexpected effects on the original.
+Before modifying a Record, use [Clone] to
+create a copy that shares no state with the original,
+or create a new Record with [NewRecord]
+and build up its Attrs by traversing the old ones with [Record.Attrs].
+
+# Performance considerations
+
+If profiling your application demonstrates that logging is taking significant time,
+the following suggestions may help.
+
+If many log lines have a common attribute, use [Logger.With] to create a Logger with
+that attribute. The built-in handlers will format that attribute only once, at the
+call to [Logger.With]. The [Handler] interface is designed to allow that optimization,
+and a well-written Handler should take advantage of it.
+
+The arguments to a log call are always evaluated, even if the log event is discarded.
+If possible, defer computation so that it happens only if the value is actually logged.
+For example, consider the call
+
+ slog.Info("starting request", "url", r.URL.String()) // may compute String unnecessarily
+
+The URL.String method will be called even if the logger discards Info-level events.
+Instead, pass the URL directly:
+
+ slog.Info("starting request", "url", &r.URL) // calls URL.String only if needed
+
+The built-in [TextHandler] will call its String method, but only
+if the log event is enabled.
+Avoiding the call to String also preserves the structure of the underlying value.
+For example [JSONHandler] emits the components of the parsed URL as a JSON object.
+If you want to avoid eagerly paying the cost of the String call
+without causing the handler to potentially inspect the structure of the value,
+wrap the value in a fmt.Stringer implementation that hides its Marshal methods.
+
+You can also use the [LogValuer] interface to avoid unnecessary work in disabled log
+calls. Say you need to log some expensive value:
+
+ slog.Debug("frobbing", "value", computeExpensiveValue(arg))
+
+Even if this line is disabled, computeExpensiveValue will be called.
+To avoid that, define a type implementing LogValuer:
+
+ type expensive struct { arg int }
+
+ func (e expensive) LogValue() slog.Value {
+ return slog.AnyValue(computeExpensiveValue(e.arg))
+ }
+
+Then use a value of that type in log calls:
+
+ slog.Debug("frobbing", "value", expensive{arg})
+
+Now computeExpensiveValue will only be called when the line is enabled.
+
+The built-in handlers acquire a lock before calling [io.Writer.Write]
+to ensure that each record is written in one piece. User-defined
+handlers are responsible for their own locking.
+*/
+package slog