[logback-dev] Corpus: initial version is done.

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello,

I have committed an initial version of the logback logging event
Corpus. The actual source is in the ch.qos.logback.classic.corpus
package.

Typical usage:

   ILoggingEvent[] eventArray = Corpus.makeStandardCorpus();

The returned array contains 50'000 elements. Calling the
makeStandatdCorpus() method multiple times will yield the exact same
results every time. If you wish to vary the number of results returned
or use a different random generator seed, just look into the source
code. It should be fairly easy to adapt.

For the probabilistic model of the Corpus see the CorpusModel class.
Most of the work is done in this class.

Altough it makes several sweeping assumptions and may be improved on
several counts, I think the model is fairly representative of the logs
generated by a real application. You can see the output of the corpus
when dumped into a file at:

   http://logback.qos.ch/corpus.txt

Your comments are welcome,

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Ceki Gülcü
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