Re: Selective logging

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:43:17 -0400
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Arne Vajh?j wrote:

tnorgd wrote:

I see, if I name my loggers by a class name, e.g.
Logger l = Logger.getLogger("my.package.SomeClass");

then it is easy to implement a command-line switch for:
java MyProg -suppress my.package.SomeClass

But how to implement this:
java MyProg -suppress my.package

One possibility is to ask a LogManager for all loggers and then to
test which logger fits to a given string.

This looks interesting, e.g. I can use regular expression to control
the loggers. But isn't there any simpler solution (i.e. somethin
already existing in java.util.logging)?


You do not need to do anything.

When you set the log level of my.package it is default
applied to my.package.SomeClass and my.package.AnotherClass
as well.


Demo:

import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class LogLevel {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Logger one = Logger.getLogger("my.package.SomeClass");
         Logger two = Logger.getLogger("my.package.AnotherClass");
         one.info("bla bla 1A");
         two.info("bla bla 2A");
         Logger.getLogger("my.package").setLevel(Level.WARNING);
         one.info("bla bla 1B");
         two.info("bla bla 2B");
         Logger.getLogger("my.package").setLevel(Level.INFO);
         one.info("bla bla 1C");
         two.info("bla bla 2C");
     }
}

Arne

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