[logback-user] Context selectors useful?

Mense, Holger holger.mense at wincor-nixdorf.com
Thu Nov 27 10:57:18 CET 2008


Hello Ceki, 

[Usage of context selector in multi threaded environments]

> Assuming a new appender, say MultiAppender, was capable of embedding
> and managing other appenders per thread basis, you would no longer
> need context selectors. More importantly, most of the work would be
> done by MultiAppender. You would only need to configure it in
> logback.xml and push MDC values at the beginning of each thread. (I am
> making the assumption that the MDC can be used to distinguish
> threads.)

Yes, currently my context selector relies on MDC. I think your 
suggested MultiAppender would also solve my problem for now. However
with the context selector I am currently more flexible on deciding
at one central point, to which LoggerContext I need to pass a log event.

Furthermore it is currently possible for me to distinguish different
logback configuration files for different thread classes. This allows a
far more fine-grained configuration.

> Needless to say, there is no intention of removing support for context
> selectors.

Okay. That's good :)


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