[logback-user] Retrieving the log filenames

Clemens Siebler clemens.siebler at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 22 10:23:05 CET 2011


As far as log4j goes, the getAppender function can be used. However, I have
not managed to get this one working for logback. Any ideas?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Clemens Siebler <
clemens.siebler at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Let's assume the user only changes the logging levels/filter during
> runtime, nothing else.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, David Roussel <
> nabble at diroussel.xsmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would a change notifier be told of the new filename?  I'm not sure, but
>> it's worth a check.
>>
>> On 21 Mar 2011, at 13:56, Clemens Siebler <clemens.siebler at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm currently using Logback (SLF4J) with a TimeBasedRollingPolicy
>> defined in logback.xml. Everything works fine, however, I'd like to retrieve
>> the filenames of the current logging session since the application started.
>> The user can obviously change the log filenames and policies in logback.xml,
>> so I don't want them hardcoded in the source. My goal is to retrieve these
>> filenames straight within Java in order to do some more processing with
>> them. Is there any possibility in logback/slf4j to retrieve those names?
>> >
>> > I currently aquire the logger via:
>> > Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Test.class);
>> >
>> > but obviously, this Logger object in particular doesn't provide such
>> functionality. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Clemens
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