*STICKY* Support multiple simultaneous instances for multiplayer projects

[abderrahman504]

Your feature proposal for GoLogger

Summary

Allow starting of multiple sessions simultaniously which are kept in separate folders and allow adding entries to any of them at any time as long as they're active.

Motivation

I'm working on a multiplayer game and have multiple instances running simultaniously for testing.
I want each running instance to have its own session so I can view the logs of each instance separately.

[Burloe]

Personally don't have any multiplayer experience so I'll have to investigate the feasibility of this for a future update. Thanks for the proposal.

[Burloe]

This is a simple concurrency issue(like you said) where multiple instances writes to the same file. An instance ID is getting implemented in 1.3.2(coming soon) that are added to the file name(e.g. game(251113_160533)_TxR84.log) and should make each instance independent.

I don't have an estimate of when the update is ready(much to refactor and improve), but it's being worked on and am hoping within a couple of weeks. Thanks for this feature request as I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

Pinning to inform other users. Closing when the update is out so you'll get a notification.

[abderrahman504]

FYI the logger doesn't break when running multiple instances. The entries from each instance are all there in the same log. I've taken to printing a unique identifier for each running instance at the start of each log entry to differentiate them, but it will be nice to have them in separate files/folders. Glad to know it's being considered.