[logback-dev] improving Logback Console Plugin with Table instead of List

[Karl Pietrzak]

On Dec 1, 2007 12:28 PM, Sébastien Pennec <sebastien at qos.ch> wrote:

> Hello Karl,
>
> Thanks for your interest! :-)


My pleasure!


> It may be in the repository, but it certainly is burried deep. I'll
> search for it tomorrow in afternoon and send any link.
>

Thank you very much!   I'll take a crack at it as soon as you get a chance
to send a link.

>
> The first thing I tried was to build a Table with each column being a
> LoggingEvent attribute. And that rendered very slowly. The actual
> version is a TableViewer which contains only one column, filled with
> the result of the PatternLayout's formatting.
>
> Sébastien
>
> Le 1 déc. 07 à 17:33, Karl Pietrzak a écrit :
>
> > Hello again, Sébastien!
> >
> > On Nov 23, 2007 1:18 PM, Sébastien Pennec <sebastien at qos.ch> wrote:
> > Hello Karl,
> >
> > The performance problem was clearly seen during the refresh of the
> > view. When I sent many logs to the view, they were appearing slowly,
> > and the redraw of the view was taking ages… I cannot give you precise
> > numbers, because the speed of the refresh was obviously too slow.
> >
> > I remember you mentioning a performance issue with using SWT Table.
> > I know you're busy, but if you get the chance, would you send me the
> > code (or is it in source control already somewhere) so I could see
> > if I could optimize it?
> >
> > Let me know, thanks! =)
> >
> >
> > Le 23 nov. 07 à 07:45, Karl Pietrzak a écrit :
> >
> > > Thanks for the reply, Sébastien!
> > >
> > > On Nov 22, 2007 4:54 PM, Sébastien Pennec <sebastien at qos.ch> wrote:
> > > Hello Karl and Maarten,
> > >
> > > It's great to see that you both are interested in improving the
> > > console plugin!
> > >
> > > Using a Table has been the first thing that I tried when I began
> > > writing the plugin, and I had a big performance issue. It was much
> > > slower than a simple console view.
> > >
> > > Could you elaborate on the performance issues?  If I'm understanding
> > > you correctly, the issue is the log events are taking a while to
> > > appear in the console view.  What kind of time are we talking
> > > about?  500 milliseconds?
> > >
> > >
> > > Do you think that we can code a plugin that uses a Table and that is
> > > as fast as a console to display logging events? As you might
> > imagine,
> > > performance is a priority, since the plugin needs to display events
> > > even when they are recieved at a very fast pace. My goal was to be
> > as
> > > fast as the console view.
> > >
> > > Maarten, thanks for the link to Vigilog, I'll take a look at it
> > soon.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Sébastien
> > >
> > > Le 22 nov. 07 à 14:28, Maarten Bosteels a écrit :
> > >
> > > > Hello Karl,
> > > >
> > > > I am not working on the Logback Console Plugin, but I agree that a
> > > > JTable would be much better than just text.
> > > >
> > > > But instead of enhancing the current plugin, this is what I had in
> > > > mind:
> > > > * enhance vigilog [1] in several ways (ability to taill a log-
> > file,
> > > > to receive logging events over a socket, ...)
> > > > * create a plugin for Eclipse and for IntelliJ IDEA that listens
> > on
> > > > a socket for commands like
> > > >     "goto:org.some.package.MyCoolClass :172"  => plugin will then
> > > > open an editor window for the specified class and line
> > > > * vigilog could then create hyperlinks for all logging events that
> > > > have a locationInfo and for stacktraces
> > > >
> > > > This way, we can concentrate on enhancing vigilog and both eclipse
> > > > and idea users benefit.
> > > >
> > > > Note that I am not yet a vigilog contributor, and it could take a
> > > > long time before all this is accomplished.
> > > > Just wanted to let you know what I have in mind.
> > > >
> > > > And if you want to add a JTable to the Console Plugin, it might be
> > > > interesting to have a look at the vigilog source code.
> > > > It uses glazedlists and JxTable.
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Maarten
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 22, 2007 4:27 AM, Karl Pietrzak < kap4020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hey everyone!
> > > >
> > > > Logback looks awesome!  Is anyone (besides me) interested in
> > having
> > > > a Table instead of List in the Logback Console Plugin?
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking about spending some time on this.  Anyone wanna join
> > > > me?  (e.g., I'll add Table support and someone else does sorting-
> > by-
> > > > column?)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, and keep up the great work!
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