Loggin problems with tables that contain Blob fields

[intellisoftwaremx]

I have a table containing a blob field, and I'm getting errors when ActivityLog tries to log changes to that table. I've set up automatic logging in the model and configured getActivityLogOptions like this:

    public function getActivitylogOptions(): LogOptions
    {
        return LogOptions::defaults()->logOnly(['*'])->useLogName('licencia_tipo'); 

    } // End Method

Is there a way to exclude the blob field from the logging process without having to list the rest of the fields? The table has many fields, and I don't want to have to list them all except the blob. I want to log everything except the blob field, as the routine has issues with blobs. This is what happens because of the blob field:

Unable to encode attribute [properties] for model [Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity] to JSON: Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded.

By the way, it would be great if there was an exclusion method to avoid logging fields, something like this:

return LogOptions::defaults()->logOnly(['*'])->exclude("blob_field")->useLogName('licencia_tipo');

Thanks.

[octax-app]

use logExcept(["your blob field"])

return LogOptions::defaults()->logExcept(['blob_field'])->useLogName('licencia_tipo');

[intellisoftwaremx]

Thanks a lot man. Question, doing this will trigger a log event when any field change (including the blob) without raising any error or simply will trigger a log event for all the fields but the blob?

[intellisoftwaremx]

Another question, is there any documentation for the utility? If so, where?

[octax-app]

Thanks a lot man. Question, doing this will trigger a log event when any field change (including the blob) without raising any error or simply will trigger a log event for all the fields but the blob?

1. Firing the log event is not related to the fields but to the model events.

2. It depends,

. If you allow empty logs, it will log whenever the model fires its event regardless of the field (including the blob)

. If you log only dirty fields, it will log whenever any field change except blob ( means if you only changed the blob field, nothing will be logged)

Note: I'm not 100% sure of that but That's what I experienced using this package

[octax-app]

Another question, is there any documentation for the utility? If so, where?

https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-activitylog/v4/introduction

[intellisoftwaremx]

Again, many thanks. It helps a lot.