[slf4j-dev] [Fwd: FW: FW: New logging]

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Ralph,

As you are the driving force behind XLogger would you mind adding a 
documentation about XLogger? The extensions.html page would be a good place.

BTW, since you have filed an ICLA, should we create a user for you in SVN?

Cheers,

Ralph Goers wrote:
> I'm posting this to the dev list to help maintain the public record.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	FW: FW: New logging
> Date: 	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:22:44 -0700
> From: 	Goers, Ralph <Ralph.Goers at digitalinsight.com>
> To: 	<rgoers at apache.org>
> CC: 	
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the quick response. I will open a bug report for this.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ceki Gulcu [mailto:ceki at qos.ch] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:49 AM
> To: Goers, Ralph
> Subject: Re: FW: New logging
> 
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> Thank you for your input. I agree that having to declare both an xlogger and a 
> logger is cumbersome. May I suggest that you enter a bug report for this item, 
> so that I can refer to it when describing the new release. Do I have your 
> permission to quote your message so that the rest of the SLF4J community is kept 
> informed? Alternatively, you could forward it to dev at slf4j yourself.
> 
> To keep the ball rolling, I've already committed relevant changes. In revision 
> 1149, XLogger implements the org.slfj4j.Logger interface. Could you please have 
> a look?
> 
> http://svn.slf4j.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1149
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Goers, Ralph wrote:
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Goers, Ralph
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:58 PM
>> *To:* Perrine, Andy; Buckley, Krista
>> *Cc:* 'ceki at slf4j.org'
>> *Subject:* RE: New logging
>>
>>  
>>
>> I'm forwarding this to Ceki. For some reason it didn't dawn on me that 
>> XLogger doesn't extend Logger. This is why the version is marked as 
>> alpha0 by the way.
>>
>>  
>>
>> You can certainly use the LoggerUtil.entering methods in our framework 
>> extensions until Ceki fixes this. 
>>
>>  
>>
>> FWIW , Logger logger = new XLogger(LoggerFactory.getLogger(name)); 
>> wouldn't really amount to much in the way of extra garbage.
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Perrine, Andy
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:52 PM
>> *To:* Buckley, Krista; Goers, Ralph
>> *Subject:* RE: New logging
>>
>>  
>>
>> That's ugly and it's creating a lot of extra garbage to be collected 
>> compared to the previous version, surely there must be a better way?
>>
> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* Buckley, Krista
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:49 PM
>> *To:* Goers, Ralph
>> *Cc:* Perrine, Andy
>> *Subject:* RE: New logging
>>
>>  
>>
>> So now that we discovered XLogger does not extend Logger, we are doing 
>> it this way.  We use XLogger for entry, exit, catching, throwing; we use 
>> Logger for all else.
>>
>>  
>>
>> import org.slf4j.Logger;
>>
>> import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
>>
>> import org.slf4j.ext.XLogger;
>>
>>  
>>
>> public class AccountSelector
>>
>> {
>>
>>     private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass().getName());
>>
>>     private XLogger xlogger = new XLogger(logger);
>>
>>  
>>
>>     // No getLogger() method
>>
>>  
>>
>>         xlogger.entry(); 
>>
>>  
>>
>>                 ve = new ValidationException("Password validation Failed 
>> (consecutive char)");
>>
>>                 logger.debug("Password must not contain more then the 
>> following consective characters: {}",
>>
>>                                   passwordMaxConsecutive);
>>
>>                 xlogger.throwing(ve);
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>                 logger.info("Password must not exceed the maximum length 
>> of {}", passwordMaxLength);
>>
>>  
>>
>>             try
>>
>>             {
>>
>>              ...
>>
>>             }
>>
>>            catch (Exception e)
>>
>>             {
>>
>>                 xlogger.catching(e);
>>
>>             }
>>
>>  
>>
>>         xlogger.exit();  // Alternately:  xlogger.exit(result);
>>
>>  
> 
> 

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