[logback-user] Using conditional processing

[Ceki Gülcü]

Hello Michael,

Adding a status listener is usually a good idea:

<configuration>
   <statusListener
       class="ch.qos.logback.core.status.OnConsoleStatusListener" />
   ...
</configuration>

Could you post your config file?

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Ceki

On 25/01/2011 7:41 PM, Michael C Rosenstein wrote:
> Hello, I've been experimenting with logback core/classic 0.9.27 (and
> slf4j 1.6.1) with Tomcat 6.0.29, Java 1.6 on Solaris for the past couple
> days, and have hit a wall viz conditional configuration processing.
>
> When I include a conditional like the following in my configuration
> file, nothing in the file is processed beginning with and after that
> directive:
>
> <if condition='property("HOSTNAME").contains("hactar")'>
> <then>
> <property name="foo" value="bar"/>
> </then>
> </if>
>
> Even a conditional as simple as the following causes processing to abort:
>
> <if condition='"foo".equals("foo")'>
> <then>
> <property name="foo" value="bar"/>
> </then>
> </if>
>
> No errors seen in the ViewStatusMessagesServlet.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /mcr