[ckan-dev] Logging in commands question

[Adrià Mercader]

Hi all,

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I haven't managed to solve it.
When implementing a CLI command from an extension, I'm having problems
to get the log messages to show in the console.

In ckan/myextension/echo.py:

log = __import__("logging").getLogger(__name__)
def echo_log():
    log.info("That's a message")

def another_function():
    pass

Now, if import the echo function outside the command class, the log
messages don't come up in the command file

from ckan.lib.cli import CkanCommand
from ckan.myextension.echo import echo_log

class TestCommand(CkanCommand)

    def command():
        echo_log() #Does not output anything in the command line

But if import the function within the function, the log messages are shown:

from ckan.lib.cli import CkanCommand

class TestCommand(CkanCommand)

    def command():
        from ckan.myextension.echo import echo_log
        echo_log() #Does output the log message


And to make matters worse, if I import another function of the same
module outside the command class, messages are not shown

from ckan.lib.cli import CkanCommand
from ckan.myextension.echo import another_function
class TestCommand(CkanCommand)

    def command():
        from ckan.myextension.echo import echo_log
        echo_log() #Does not output anything in the command line

As far as I know, this does not happen with normal python classes so
maybe I'm missing something with CkanCommand?

Thanks,

Adrià