[slf4j-dev] StaticMDCBinder but not IMDCFactory

[Ceki Gulcu]

Hello Gunnar,

MDC is by construction a class with static methods. I fail to see how
IMDCFactory could be made to create a fixed and static class. It just
does not make sense. Have you noticed the MDCAdapter interface?

Cheers,

Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I started implementing a native SLF4J OSGi logger which will be part of
> our OSGi server framework (www.eclipse.org/cloudfree).
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to define an IMDCFactory factory which
> specifies the contract of StaticMDCBinder further? It seems a bit odd
> that this class follows different conventions/rules than the other
> Static..Binder classes.
> 
> Are there technical limitations which prevents this? I could that a
> backward compatibility issue could be addressed with some reflection.
> 
> Are you interested in a patch for this?
> 
> -Gunnar
> 
> 

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