From d091879773d762d2b4ce30cfaa589ed270b49f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: homeburger <pmcgeee03@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:41:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tweaks to make work

---
 client/src/TcpClient.cpp | 12 +++++++++---
 common/LoggerService.cpp |  7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/src/TcpClient.cpp b/client/src/TcpClient.cpp
index c3c42ff..a507951 100644
--- a/client/src/TcpClient.cpp
+++ b/client/src/TcpClient.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 
 #include "TcpClient.hpp"
 
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
+
 TcpClient::TcpClient(ConfigService* config, LoggerService* logger) : TcpBase(logger) {
 
     if(!(config->getConfig<ClientConfig>("TcpClient", "main", &configuration_))) {
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ ErrorCode TcpClient::init() {
     // parse the hostname string into uint8s
     host = gethostbyname(configuration_.hostname.c_str());
     if(host == NULL) {
-        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Debug, "Unable to parse hostname.");
+        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Error, "Unable to parse hostname.");
         close(socketFd_); // TODO: probably on a destructor
         return ErrorCode::Error;
     }
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ ErrorCode TcpClient::init() {
     // create tcp socket
     socketFd_ = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
     if(socketFd_ < 0) {
-        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Debug, "Unable to open client socket.");
+        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Error, "Unable to open client socket.");
         close(socketFd_);
         return ErrorCode::Error;
     }
@@ -52,9 +54,13 @@ ErrorCode TcpClient::init() {
     serverAddress.sin_port = htons(configuration_.port);
     serverAddress.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr*)host->h_addr);
 
+    char ip[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];
+    inet_ntop(AF_INET, host->h_addr_list[0], ip, sizeof(ip));
+    logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Error, "Connecting to {}:{}", ip, configuration_.port);
+
     // connect to server
     if(connect(socketFd_, (struct sockaddr*)&serverAddress, sizeof(struct sockaddr)) < 0) {
-        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Debug, "Unable to connect to server.");
+        logger_->log("TcpClient", LogFlag::Error, "Unable to connect to server.");
         close(socketFd_);
         return ErrorCode::Error;
     }
diff --git a/common/LoggerService.cpp b/common/LoggerService.cpp
index b606ef9..d395687 100644
--- a/common/LoggerService.cpp
+++ b/common/LoggerService.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 #include <filesystem>
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cstdarg>
+#include <cerrno>
+#include <cstring>
 
 namespace fs = std::filesystem;
 
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ void LoggerService::write(std::string component, LogFlag flag, std::string messa
 
     std::string componentTrace = "[" + configuration_.id + ": " + component + "] ";
     finalmessage += componentTrace; // component is the section of the program (For example Mesh or Engine) that is calling the logger
-            
+
     std::string level = "";
 
     level = LogFlagStrings[flag];
@@ -87,6 +89,9 @@ void LoggerService::write(std::string component, LogFlag flag, std::string messa
     // level.append(7 - level.length(), ' ') pads out the level string with whitespace so every line is aligned the sam
     finalmessage = finalmessage + "[" + level + "] "; 
     finalmessage = finalmessage + message + " "; 
+    if(flag == LogFlag::Error) {
+        finalmessage += std::format("[errno = {} ({})]", errno, std::strerror(errno));
+    }
 
     /* Removed because didn't want to bother with variadics + default arguments
     if (configuration_.showSourceTrace) {