[logback-user] Is there System properties configuration?

[Matt Fowles]

All~

For what it is worth, my company wants this feature as well.  Actually
we want it enough that we went ahead and implemented it.  I have
uploaded patches that add the feature, and we are simply waiting for
things to proceed.

http://bugzilla.qos.ch/show_bug.cgi?id=107

Matt

On Jan 11, 2008 6:16 AM, Laedret <Henric.Larsson at igindex.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to "ask" for this feature. For two reasons, the first being easier
> migration from log4j. The second because the classpath hack is rather ugly.
> It's too easy to have someone sneak in a logback.xml or loback-test.xml
> somewhere in the classpath by mistake or on purpose as part of some library
> and suddenly there's a world of pain trying to work our what jar file
> amongst hundreds that contains it.
>
> It's a way of telling the application to use a specific file and no other
> file and there's no questions about which file was used. Personally I prefer
> being explicit about this, because of experience with log4j config's
> littered around various libraries.
>
> I think your point is valid that keeping things simple makes learning and
> using logback simpler but having the option to specify the name of the file
> adds flexibility without any real cost in complexity.
>
>
> The way logback looks for the test config before the regular config is
> brilliant for development purposes and the case where an application only
> needs one production config, but at least in our production environment we
> deploy the same application in various enviroments and they all need
> different log configs - which we currently solved by having more than one
> log config as part of the application bundle and specifiying the path/name
> as a system property.
>
> $0.02
>
> Cheers,
> Henric
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ceki Gulcu-2 wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > There are no such plans. At this time, we try to offer only features users
> > actually ask for. On the long term, this is beneficial for both developers
> > and
> > users. Less code to maintain for us and easier for users to grasp the
> > library
> > (less things to learn).
> >
> >
> > thebugslayer wrote:
> >> this will work.
> >>
> >> Is there plan to add user specifiy config file in the future? I found
> >> that is easier to instruct end user rather than affecting classpath.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> -zemian
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/13/07, Ceki Gulcu <listid at qos.ch> wrote:
> >>> Thank you for your answer. As things stand currently, you can't do that
> >>> using
> >>> logback except by modifying the class path. As in
> >>>
> >>> java -cp ../resources1/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar
> >>> java -cp ../resources2/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar
> >>> java -cp ../resources3/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar
> >>>
> >>> In addition, you would need to place customN.xml in
> >>> resourceN/logback.xml, where
> >>> N is in {1, 2, 3}.
> >>>
> >>> Would that work for you?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> thebugslayer wrote:
> >>>> Hi Ceki,
> >>>>
> >>>> This feature was in log4j, and it allow me  to publish tool that allow
> >>>> end user do this:
> >>>>
> >>>> java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom1.xml -jar mytool.jar
> >>>> java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom2.xml -jar mytool.jar
> >>>> java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom3.xml -jar mytool.jar
> >>>>
> >>>> how would I do this in logback?
> >>>> -Z
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/13/07, Ceki Gulcu <ceki at qos.ch> wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No, it is not currently possible to specify the name of the
> >>>>> configuration file
> >>>>> through a system property. Could you please describe your use case?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thebugslayer wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I read http://logback.qos.ch/manual/joran.html, it's only checking
> >>>>>> classpath for config logback.xml file. Is there a way to specify file
> >>>>>> location by System properties?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Ceki Gülcü
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