[logback-user] Logback configuration

[Anders Wallgren]

Looks reasonable -- I'll pull the sources and play around with it.

anders


Sébastien Pennec wrote:
> 
> Hello Andy and Anders,
> 
> We've modified Joran to add this feature yesterday.
> 
> The repository version now allows you to set an <include> element in a
> configuration 
> file, and set a file="" attribute. This attribute can be specified by
> using a property.
> 
> We could have:
> 
> <configuration>
>    <include path="${path.to.file}" />
> </configuration>
> 
> The target file must use the following elements:
> 
> <included>
>   <!-- add here any configuration element: Appender, layout, logger, ...
> -->
> </included>
> 
> Would that do the trick you, Anders?
> 
> Sébastien
> 
> Gerweck Andy - agerwe wrote:
>> I thought that there was some agreement that Joran would (or should)
>> include the capability to include a file based on a system property,
>> which provides exactly the required functionality without making this a
>> special case. 
>> 
>> A way to switch the configuration at runtime is a hard requirement for
>> several applications I develop. Making this part of Joran (possibly
>> providing a short sample that gets everything from a property) seems like
>> a great solution that could be helpful in many situations (especially
>> with conditionals and regex captures). 
>> 
>> There was an email thread covering this on 2/8.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  Andy Gerweck
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: logback-user-bounces at qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces at qos.ch] On
>> Behalf Of Ceki Gülcü
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:18 PM
>> To: logback users list; logback-user at qos.ch
>> Subject: Re: [logback-user] Logback configuration
>> 
>> Hello Anders,
>> 
>> If you don't have a J2EE container, using a context selector is a major 
>> overkill. If you tell us that it would not be possible to package a 
>> different copy of logback.xml in each standalone application, then we
>> will 
>> add the functionality you requested, i.e. specifying the configuration
>> file 
>> through a system property. (I am not very fond of this feature, but if
>> you 
>> really need it, we'll be happy to oblige.)
>> 
>> After you have ascertained that packaging a distinct copy of logback.xml
>> in 
>> each application is not an option, could you please you file a 
>> bug/enhancement report?
>> 
>> At 01:30 AM 3/13/2007, Anders Wallgren wrote:
>> 
>>> We're not running inside a J2EE container, rather this is a set of
>>> standalone
>>> applications launched out of the same classpath.
>>>
>>> As it stands, I don't think ContextSelector will help, unless there's
>>> some
>>> custom implementation of that interface that I could put together to do
>>> the
>>> right thing.  I'm not yet familiar enough with logback to answer that
>>> myself, so your input is appreciated.
>>>
>>> anders
>> 
> 
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> 
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