My guess is that 99.9% of the time you would get back the same value as the logger name.
Ralph > On Jul 10, 2018, at 4:31 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At work, we have tons of loggers, mostly based on class names, with also > some general purpose loggers. > > We have had different UIs over the years to deal with configuration but one > thing we have never had is the description of what a logger does. > > What do you think of being able to say things like: > > LogManager.getLogger("com.example.foo", "Logs foos on sunny days.") > > It would then be handy to ask a logger context to describe itself, which a > server could then send to a client to help fiddle loggers for dynamic > debugging. > > Thoughts? > > Gary