Re: log4j - different logger instances

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:45:42 -0400
Message-ID:
<hrd5n7$596$1@news.albasani.net>
John Smith wrote:

I want to create a new logger instance that will simultaniusly log to
another file. I was able to do that programatically.
So when I instantiate the logger like this:

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Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("AnotherLogger");
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it writes to a separate log file "AnotherLogFile.txt".

I do not like the idea to hard-code the appender instantiation.

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Layout layout = new PatternLayout("%d %-5p %m%n");
RollingFileAppender rfa = new RollingFileAppender(layout,
                    "AnotherLogFile.txt");
            rfa.setMaxFileSize(10MB);
            rfa.setMaxBackupIndex(8);

            
Logger.getLogger("AnotherLogger").setAdditivity(false);
Logger.getLogger("AnotherLogger").addAppender(rfa);
       

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The question is can I configure this via log4j.properties?


What have you been able to do with log4j.properties so far?

Try (using your own folders, files and package names, of course):

# logj4.properties
log4j.rootCategory = WARN, A
log4j.category.com.lewscanon = WARN, F
log4j.category.com.lewscanon.mouser = DEBUG, X

log4j.appender.A = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.A.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

log4j.appender.F = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.F.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.F.File = /projects/mouser/logs/lewscanon.log
log4j.appender.F.MaxFileSize = 512KB
log4j.appender.F.MaxBackupIndex = 2

log4j.appender.X = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.X.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.X.File = /projects/mouser/logs/mouser.log
log4j.appender.X.MaxFileSize = 512KB
log4j.appender.X.MaxBackupIndex = 2

log4j.appender.A.layout.ConversionPattern= %d %-16c{1}:%-39m %-t %x%n
log4j.appender.F.layout.ConversionPattern= %d %-16c{1}:%-39m %-t %x%n
log4j.appender.X.layout.ConversionPattern= %d %-16c{1}:%-39m %-t %x%n

--
Lew

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