[logback-user] alternate configuration files on the classpath

[Steve Cohen]

That won't really work since both programs use the same jar.  I really 
need the ability to specify which jar-packaged config file to use from 
the command line.  The documentation implies that this is possible, I 
just would like to know how.



On 10/29/2012 06:43 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> I have not used this system property.
>
> If your application does not include the installer code, but the installer
> includes the application code, then you can enclose "logback.xml" with the
> main application and "logback-test.xml" in the installer.
>
> Then "logback-test.xml" will be used if present, otherwise "logback.xml".
>
> Perhaps this is useful?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: logback-user-bounces at qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces at qos.ch] On
> Behalf Of Steve Cohen
> Sent: 26. oktober 2012 21:49
> To: 'logback users list'
> Subject: [logback-user] alternate configuration files on the classpath
>
> In the logback manual,
> http://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#configFileProperty,
> there is the following section
>
>
>> Specifying the location of the default configuration file as a system
>> property
>>
>> If you wish, you can specify the location of the default configuration
> file with a system property named logback.configurationFile. The value of
> this property can be a URL, a resource on the class path or a path to a file
> external to the application.
>>
>> java -Dlogback.configurationFile=/path/to/config.xml
>> chapters.configuration.MyApp1
>
> There is no example of using this property to refer to a configuration file
> on the classpath, for example, an alternate configuration file deployed in
> an application jar file.  This is my requirement.  I have two executables,
> the main one, and an auto-installer for it, code for which lives in the same
> jar file, with each executable launched by its own batch file.
>
> I tried placing an alternate config file on the root of the classpath inside
> the jar file (at the same directory as logback.xml).  this does not seem to
> work.
>
> What is the correct format for defining -Dlogback.configurationFile= for a
> resource located in a jar file on the classpath or, for that matter, any
> other classpath resource more generically?
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