The different modules

The core

• httplog is the “main thread module”, called when you type `httplog path in the terminal. It parses the arguments, creates the children threads and manages them.
• reader contains the reader.LogReader thread that continuously reads the log file.
• statistician contains the statistician.Statistician thread that calculates the stats with a statistician.Statistics object.
• display contains the display.Displayer thread that displays stats and alerts on the console or on log files. display.Displayer contains a thread-safe logging and printing system through which every printing command go.

The simulation module

• log_writer contains log_writer.LogSimulator and log_writer.LogWriter two threads used to generate actively written HTTP access logs from simulation config files.

The other modules

• The test modules: they start with test_ and are used by py.test to test the source code. They need to be completed!
• The misc modules, a.k.a. miscellaneous module, used as a storage facility. You can ignore it.

Links

• source
  • display module
  • httplog module
  • log_writer module
  • misc module
  • playground module
  • reader module
  • statistician module
  • test_log_writer module
  • test_reader module