[slf4j-dev] [JIRA] (SLF4J-444) Allow explicitly selecting a binding

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Christopher Smith created SLF4J-444:
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             Summary: Allow explicitly selecting a binding
                 Key: SLF4J-444
                 URL: https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-444
             Project: SLF4J
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 1.7.25
            Reporter: Christopher Smith
            Assignee: SLF4J developers list


The binding autoconfiguration in SLF4J is very handy, but it comes with a severe limitation in testing: Neither Eclipse nor IntelliJ can handle a test-scope exclude (e.g., Surefire's {{classpathDependencyExclude}}), and so for an end project (such as a Spring Boot application), it's impossible to run tests that use slf4j-test in the IDE.

It would be very helpful for testing purposes if there were a way to specify (probably in a {{META-INF}} file) the preferred logger to use in the case of finding multiple bindings on the classpath. Then dropping an instruction in {{src/test/resources}} would allow tests to run with the test logger without tangling classpath issues into the run.



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