[logback-user] How to know the filename used by the appender of a given logger

[David Roussel]

I've made my app know the logger file name so that I can put a link to it in an email. 

Buy the way I did it was to make the app choose the filename and set a system property. Then in logback.xml refer to the system property. 

If that approach does not work, because you are using a dynamic log file name, then I suggest you try subclassing the rolling appender and getting the new filename each time one is generated, and then putting that value into a static singleton that is visible to your app. 

David

On 31 Jul 2013, at 11:12, Ulrich <Forums at gombers.de> wrote:

> 
> Within my application I would like to know the filename used by it's logger. I've asked this question before but didn't get an answer. So I will give it another try.
> I've browsed through the Javadoc of the classes and interfaces where I thought by their name they should be able to provide this piece of information (LoggerContext and Appender to name two of them), but wasn't lucky.
> 
> Can anyone help here?
> Ulrich
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