Read logs using the new swift os_log api

Deprecated in iOS 10.0: os_log(3) has replaced asl(3)

So iOS 10.0 apparently deprecates the asl (Apple System Log) api and replaces it with the very limited os_log api.

I use something similar to the code snippet below to read out log writes for the running app to show in a uitextview in app - and now it is full of deprecation warnings. Does anyone know of a way to read the printed log using the new os_log api? Because I only see an api for writing (https://developer.apple.com/reference/os/1891852-logging).

import asl

let query = asl_new(UInt32(ASL_TYPE_QUERY))
let response = asl_search(nil, query)
while let message = asl_next(response) {
    var i: UInt32 = 0
    let key = asl_key(message, i)
    print(asl_get(message, key))
    ...
}

Edit after @Will Loew-Blosser's answer

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/721/ explained nicely what is going to happen with logging in the future. The biggest giveaway was that logs are put in some compressed format and only expanded by the new Console application. Which pretty much makes my mission hopeless.

The guy (Steve Szymanski) in the video mentions "All ASL logging APIs are superseeded by new APIs" and "New APIs for searching new log data will not be made public this release" aka asl_search. And that was exactly what I was looking for!

Also he mentions that a swift API i coming.

Looks like you need to use the enhanced Console instead of your own log viewer. The logs are compressed and not expanded until viewed - this makes logging much less intrusive at debug levels. There is no text form of the logs however.

See the 2016 WWDC video session 721 "Unified Logging and Activity Tracing" https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/721/

Also the Apple sample app that demos the new approach has an undocumented build setting that I had to add to my iOS app. See the setting in the 'Paper Company (Swift)' iOS app. The setting is found in the Targets section of the top level xCode window. These are the steps that I followed: