//
// ConsoleChannel.h
//
// $Id: //poco/svn/Foundation/include/Poco/ConsoleChannel.h#2 $
//
// Library: Foundation
// Package: Logging
// Module:  ConsoleChannel
//
// Definition of the ConsoleChannel class.
//
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#ifndef Foundation_ConsoleChannel_INCLUDED
#define Foundation_ConsoleChannel_INCLUDED


#include "Poco/Foundation.h"
#include "Poco/Channel.h"
#include "Poco/Mutex.h"
#include <ostream>


namespace Poco {


class Foundation_API ConsoleChannel: public Channel
	/// A channel that writes to an ostream.
	///
	/// Only the message's text is written, followed
	/// by a newline.
	///
	/// Chain this channel to a FormattingChannel with an
	/// appropriate Formatter to control what is contained 
	/// in the text.
	///
	/// Similar to StreamChannel, except that a static
	/// mutex is used to protect against multiple
	/// console channels concurrently writing to the
	/// same stream.
{
public:
	ConsoleChannel();
		/// Creates the channel and attached std::clog.
		
	ConsoleChannel(std::ostream& str);
		/// Creates the channel.

	void log(const Message& msg);
		/// Logs the given message to the channel's stream.
		
protected:
	~ConsoleChannel();

private:
	std::ostream& _str;
	static FastMutex _mutex;
};


} // namespace Poco


#endif // Foundation_ConsoleChannel_INCLUDED
