[logback-dev] improving Logback Console Plugin with Table instead of List

[Sébastien Pennec]

Hello Karl,

Thanks for your interest! :-)

It may be in the repository, but it certainly is burried deep. I'll  
search for it tomorrow in afternoon and send any link.

The first thing I tried was to build a Table with each column being a  
LoggingEvent attribute. And that rendered very slowly. The actual  
version is a TableViewer which contains only one column, filled with  
the result of the PatternLayout's formatting.

Sébastien

Le 1 déc. 07 à 17:33, Karl Pietrzak a écrit :

> Hello again, Sébastien!
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 1:18 PM, Sébastien Pennec <sebastien at qos.ch> wrote:
> Hello Karl,
>
> The performance problem was clearly seen during the refresh of the
> view. When I sent many logs to the view, they were appearing slowly,
> and the redraw of the view was taking ages… I cannot give you precise
> numbers, because the speed of the refresh was obviously too slow.
>
> I remember you mentioning a performance issue with using SWT Table.   
> I know you're busy, but if you get the chance, would you send me the  
> code (or is it in source control already somewhere) so I could see  
> if I could optimize it?
>
> Let me know, thanks! =)
>
>
> Le 23 nov. 07 à 07:45, Karl Pietrzak a écrit :
>
> > Thanks for the reply, Sébastien!
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2007 4:54 PM, Sébastien Pennec <sebastien at qos.ch> wrote:
> > Hello Karl and Maarten,
> >
> > It's great to see that you both are interested in improving the
> > console plugin!
> >
> > Using a Table has been the first thing that I tried when I began
> > writing the plugin, and I had a big performance issue. It was much
> > slower than a simple console view.
> >
> > Could you elaborate on the performance issues?  If I'm understanding
> > you correctly, the issue is the log events are taking a while to
> > appear in the console view.  What kind of time are we talking
> > about?  500 milliseconds?
> >
> >
> > Do you think that we can code a plugin that uses a Table and that is
> > as fast as a console to display logging events? As you might  
> imagine,
> > performance is a priority, since the plugin needs to display events
> > even when they are recieved at a very fast pace. My goal was to be  
> as
> > fast as the console view.
> >
> > Maarten, thanks for the link to Vigilog, I'll take a look at it  
> soon.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sébastien
> >
> > Le 22 nov. 07 à 14:28, Maarten Bosteels a écrit :
> >
> > > Hello Karl,
> > >
> > > I am not working on the Logback Console Plugin, but I agree that a
> > > JTable would be much better than just text.
> > >
> > > But instead of enhancing the current plugin, this is what I had in
> > > mind:
> > > * enhance vigilog [1] in several ways (ability to taill a log- 
> file,
> > > to receive logging events over a socket, ...)
> > > * create a plugin for Eclipse and for IntelliJ IDEA that listens  
> on
> > > a socket for commands like
> > >     "goto:org.some.package.MyCoolClass :172"  => plugin will then
> > > open an editor window for the specified class and line
> > > * vigilog could then create hyperlinks for all logging events that
> > > have a locationInfo and for stacktraces
> > >
> > > This way, we can concentrate on enhancing vigilog and both eclipse
> > > and idea users benefit.
> > >
> > > Note that I am not yet a vigilog contributor, and it could take a
> > > long time before all this is accomplished.
> > > Just wanted to let you know what I have in mind.
> > >
> > > And if you want to add a JTable to the Console Plugin, it might be
> > > interesting to have a look at the vigilog source code.
> > > It uses glazedlists and JxTable.
> > >
> > > [1] http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Maarten
> > >
> > >
> > > On Nov 22, 2007 4:27 AM, Karl Pietrzak < kap4020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey everyone!
> > >
> > > Logback looks awesome!  Is anyone (besides me) interested in  
> having
> > > a Table instead of List in the Logback Console Plugin?
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about spending some time on this.  Anyone wanna join
> > > me?  (e.g., I'll add Table support and someone else does sorting- 
> by-
> > > column?)
> > >
> > > Thanks, and keep up the great work!
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