[logback-user] Auto configuration within unit tests

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hi Simon,

Your question is close to Michael Newcomb's post of a few weeks
ago. One of the last key features missing in logback is support for
default configuration. Anyway, this is relatively easy to do and will
be added shortly. It should be part of logback version 0.5 (to be
released in the next 48 hours), if not, version 0.6.

Coming back to your question, assume we want to keep it simple. What
if during auto-configuration logback gave higher priority to the file
logback-test.xml, and only it could not be found, search for
logback.xml, this independently of junit or testng classes? What would
be wrong with that approach? It seems to me that this approach would
work both with Eclipse and Maven.

Only when the file "logback-test.xml" found its way into production,
we would run into trouble. Is that likely?

We could further facilitate the life of the developer by proposing a
very simple default configuration in the absence of both
logback-test.xml and logback.xml files.

WDYT?

At 09:40 PM 10/19/2006, Simon BRANDHOF wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Auto-configuration is very useful. No more explicit initialization.
>The configuration file is automatically loaded from the classpath
>thanks to naming convention (for example "log4j.xml" or future
>"logback.xml"). Logback does not manage yet this feature, but I think
>it is currently in development.
>
>I wish Logback resolves a common need I have with log4j :
>autoconfiguration within unit tests. The idea is to have a
>configuration file specific to unit tests (for example with DEBUG
>levels) without intrusive initialization parameters (Java code, system
>property, ...). The are only two solutions with log4j :
>
>1/ manage files ordering into the classpath. The unit test log4j.xml
>precedes the "official" log4j.xml.
>2/ have only the unit test log4j.xml into the classpath
>
>Those solutions are not so simple to set with tools like maven or
>eclipse. For example Maven 2 sets the test classpath with the
>directories  src/main/resources then src/test/resources. And no way
>for me to change the default behaviour !
>
>Here is a draft of solution. Logback loads a file named
>logback-test.xml instead of logback.xml if the classpath contains a
>class from the package junit.framework or org.testng.
>
>Is it possible ? Do you have any suggestions ?
>Simon

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