From 316863735d692b1836def27504740e095d271e3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Carlin <bruno@bcarlin.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:35:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Move the filter on the level of the record from backends to
 the logger (in order to have consistent behaviour)

---
 backend.go | 9 +++------
 logger.go  | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend.go b/backend.go
index 3ab7924..7484b40 100644
--- a/backend.go
+++ b/backend.go
@@ -26,12 +26,9 @@ func NewStdoutBackend() (b *StdoutBackend) {
 }
 
 func (b StdoutBackend) Write(r *Record) error {
-	if r.Level >= b.level {
-		//check back for auto dereferencing
-		text := (*b.formatter)(r)
-		b.l.Write([]byte(text))
-	}
-	return nil
+	text := (*b.formatter)(r)
+	_, err := io.WriteString(b.l, text)
+	return err
 }
 
 func (b *StdoutBackend) SetLevel(l Level) {
diff --git a/logger.go b/logger.go
index 1aab4b9..c0e27e6 100644
--- a/logger.go
+++ b/logger.go
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ func (l *Logger) SetLevel(level Level) {
 func (l *Logger) Log(level Level, m string) {
 	r := NewRecord(level, m)
 	for _, backend := range l.backends {
-		//Should be dereferenced automatically ?
-		backend.Write(r)
+		if r.Level >= backend.Level() {
+			backend.Write(r)
+		}
 	}
 }