[slf4j-user] Serializable log adapters

[Trustin Lee]

On 3/13/07, Ceki Gülcü <listid at qos.ch> wrote:
>
> At 02:09 PM 3/12/2007, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> >On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:29:03 +0000, Jeremy Booth wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a reason why the adapters don't implement serializable other
> than
> > > a lack of demand? Would it be possible to make them serializable so I
> can
> > > switch?, looking at the javadocs I assume it would be the logger
> adapter
> > > implementations, org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger and
> org.slf4j.Logger
> > > that would need the change.
> >
> >I don't think this is either necessary or desirable. If your classes are
> >Serializable, make the loggers transient and override readResolve() to
> >recreate/set the log instance. Cuts down on useless serialization
> overhead
> >too!
>
> Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Jeremy, would Holger's suggestion above
> work for you?


Implementing readResolve() for every class with a logger field is painful.
Would there be any easier way?  Of course, the easiest solution is not to
use logger for serializable objects, which might make sense.

Trustin
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