[logback-user] How To Use Filters

[Ceki Gülcü]

At 09:54 PM 1/3/2007, Yoram Forscher wrote:
>Hi Ceki,
>
>I see your point regarding the default configuration and it makes a lot of 
>sense to provide some basic logging capability even if the user neglects 
>to configure. The requirement to invoke shutdownAndReset(), though,  is 
>IMHO not elegant and error prone. Maybe you can internally clear the 
>configuration when the user invoked doConfigure()?

If we automatically called shutdownAndReset() every time a configurator was 
invoked, it would not be possible to do partial configurations. By partial 
configuration, I mean configuration of logback using multiple config files. 
However, we might add this functionality in the future if it comes up again.

>Regarding logger.isXXXEnabled(marker), I thought it will give me the exact 
>functionality that you mentioned, i.e., that it will depend on the marker 
>value.  When I used it I wanted to conditionally log some debug 
>information that takes a lot of processing to generate. I did not want the 
>overhead involved in generating this information if it will never be 
>logged. When using log4j, I would put this kind of information at the 
>TRACE level but this is not possible with logback. Do you see a good way 
>to achieve this functionality?

I kind of see what you mean. However, could you give an example of 
"information which takes a lot of processing to generate"? Maybe you can 
use parameterized logging...

>
>Thanks,
>
>Yoram

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Ceki Gülcü
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