> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
> Carsten Ziegeler a écrit :
> >
> > One final note:
> >
> > What about formatting the LogEvent to XML? So we could create easily
> > create a generator reading the log file, a stylesheet filtering
> > it and then displaying everything on the client.
> >
> I already thought about this. XML is fine for machine processing, but
> verbose for human reading. So the question is : how do we use the log
> file ? Personnaly, I have it opened in a text editor that prompts me for
> reload whenever it changes (on Unix I would use tail -f).
>
Yes, I nearly do the same. But there are often situations where you don't
have a unix shell available or even worse no direct access to the server's
local file system.
Using XML as output is in my opinion as readable as the text format, but
it has the disadvantage of being more verbose. That's right, but is this
really a problem? For example,
"DEBUG 99597 [cocoon ] (main): Using configuration file: /cocoon.xconf"
could read with xml:
<event>
<priority>DEBUG</priority>
<time>99597</time>
...
</event>
The only real problem, is that with xml you get more than one line per log
entry.
> Reloading and reloading an ever growing web page to follow the log
> doesn't seem as efficient as following a raw text file. But maybe you
> have some better use cases for an XMLized log !
>
Yes, filtering it is the main approach. Imagine a server where more than
one person is testing on at a time. If the log is in xml format you could
easily write a stylesheet filtering the log on a per request basis, so each
person gets only the entries which affects his work etc.
And you can get the log in every format from every you want using a simple
http request. And you can choose the layout for this, you can highlight the
important information and leave out the uneccesary etc.
I know filtering etc. can be done with some unix command line tools as well,
but as cocoon itself heavily deals with xml, I thought we should use it as
much as possible, making cocoon itself consistent.
Carsten
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