Config option to send payloads to a logger when Ray is disabled

[squatto]

My idea will make more sense with an example for context:

if ($response->failed()) {
    if (ray()->enabled()) {
        ray('Response JSON:', $response->json());
    } else {
        info('Response JSON:');
        info(json_encode($response->json(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));
    }
}

$response is the return from the Laravel HTTP client. When the request fails, I send the JSON through ray() if Ray is enabled (e.g. because it's on local). If Ray is disabled (e.g. because it's on production), I still want to log the JSON response, so I send it through info(). This if (ray()->enabled()) { ... } else { ... } process lets me keep ray() calls in code pushed to production (where Ray is disabled) and continue receiving log output whenever necessary.

It would be very helpful to be able to only do the ray() call, and if Ray is disabled, have the option to pass the payload output to a logger that is configured in ray.php (any PSR-3 compliant logger)

This would likely necessitate some payloads having a "simplified" formatter - one whose output could be easily saved to a text-based log file, for example. For most of the payloads this would be pretty trivial to accomplish. I'd imagine that most (if not all) payloads could just send $payload->toArray() to the relevant log method. If necessary, the payloads could override a method from \Spatie\Ray\Payloads\Payload (like they do now with getContent()) if a different payload format is necessary/desired. Something like getContentForLogger() that by default just returns $this->toArray(), maybe?

public function getContentForLogger(): array
{
    return $this->toArray();
}

Thanks!

[patinthehat]

@squatto Couldn't you do something like this and override the spatie/ray ray() function? (code is untested, but you get the idea)

function ray(...$args) {
    $settings = SettingsFactory::createFromConfigFile();

    if (Ray::$enabled) {        
        return (new Ray($settings))->send(...$args);
    }

    info($args);
    return new Ray($settings);
}

ray($response->json());

You could also create a custom Ray class and override the send() method.
Just my thoughts on how you could solve your issue.