[slf4j-dev] Re quest for a log message processing hook.

[ogradyjd]

I don't really want to say exactly what I'm working on right now for various
reasons, but I can tell you my needs.

What I'm doing requires me to be able to receive all the messages being
logged, regardless of whether the underlying logging configuration is set to
log them or not.  For instance, if in the code I were to use slf4j as the
logger, and the underlying log system was Log4j, and the Log4j configuration
was set to "warn", I would still want to get copied on logging messages for
"info", "debug", etc...

>From there, the system I'm writing is going to process the logs in it's own
way, and then send them... somewhere else (he said, mysteriously).  It will
be able to process the logs in a more dynamic way and pay attention to the
threads the log messages came from, so changing the configuration files will
be unnecessary. 

This is why I'm looking for a way to work with the abstraction layer rather
than the underlying log system.  What log messages get processed will be
completely independent of the log system configuration and will be
instantaneous.  For the purposes of what I'm doing, consider the log
configuration and output files normally generated as unreachable.

Does that give you enough reasons why I'm looking for "listener" I asked
about?   No worries though. I understand your software has a charter, so I
will wrap the Logger and LoggerFactory implementations for now, unless,
given the above info, you have better ideas?


Ceki Gulcu wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
>> 
>> Naturally.
>> 
>> Often people who ask a question have gotten stuck on solving a problem 
>> in a specific way, and ask about how to do the specific way.  Knowing 
>> about the underlying problem may allow an alternate approach which may 
>> even happen to work better (if at all :) ).
> 
> Indeed, the original problem might lend itself to different type of
> solution.
> 
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