[logback-user] How to log FROM an appender?

[TJ Rothwell]

The default OnConsoleStatusListener doesn't have filtering, however you
could create your own StatusListener that does, so that it only
outputs/logs the ones coming from your appender.

-- TJ

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Steve Cohen <scohen at javactivity.org>wrote:

> On 11/16/2011 10:27 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
>
>> On 11/16/2011 12:53 AM, Ceki Gulcu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> Logback components, including appenders, should use the status
>>> manager. If you look at logback code you should see invocations of
>>> addInfo, addWarn or addError methods strewn throughout the code.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ceki
>>>
>>> On 12.11.2011 23:14, Steve Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have a custom appender that may itself need to issue logging
>>>> statements. But placing a logger in such a class causes various
>>>> exceptions on initialization and loading. So we are resorting to
>>>> System.out.println for lack of a better solution.
>>>>
>>>> I suppose there must be a better way.
>>>> What would that be?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Thanks, Ceki. I am looking into this. I have a question, though. If you,
>> for example, call addInfo() from an appender, which Logger decides
>> whether or not to log it? The root logger?
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> Looking at this a little more deeply, I see that this works, in the case
> of the OnConsoleStatusListener, via simply writing on the console.  But it
> seems that the level you choose to add (addInfo() vs addWarn() for example)
> affects only the status reported on the output device and there is no
> filtering available based on these "levels".  Is this correct?
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