Question: why not delay the evaluation of the message even further, until LogRecord.getMessage() is invoked? Since a logger might be enabled for the level, but the handler is not, so the message is not really logged. Or is that considered uncommon?
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Henry Jen <henry....@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch adds a couple APIs to java.util.logging.Logger so that > construction of log messages only occurs when it is actually to be > logged by using Supplier<String> instead of String. > > Since the idea is to avoid unnecessary construction of log messages, > thus APIs imply formatting are not provided. Thus all forms of logrb and > log with Parameters are not included. > > log with Throwable are named to be logEx or logpEx to avoid null > ambiguous as it seems like it's quite common usage with > > logger.log(level, null, thrown) > > Specdiff and webrev can be found at following, > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/ccc/8005263.0/specdiff/diff.html > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/ccc/8005263.0/webrev/ > > Cheers, > Henry
