Hi Dale,

thanks for your answer and the usefull tips.
I have expected something like this but 2 1/2 years since
the last Chainsaw release is quite a bit too long.
We will see if we use Chainsaw at all.

Cheers
  Stefan

Dale King wrote:

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


    Hi All,

    I'am using log4cxx 0.10.0 and Chainsaw v2 as a server. On the Chainsaw
    side I'am
    using a SocketReceiver and a XMLSocketReceiver. Now I have three
    beginner questions
    concerning this setup.

    1) The events logged by the XMLSocketReceiver are all written to the
    "chainsaw-log" tab.
    This is somehow ugly. Is it possible to set the "Application property"
    such that the XML
    messages are going to a different tab? I have found only vague
    descriptions on setting
    this property (even on the name of the key).


Yes the following will do it for the current thread. It is on a per thread basis so needs to be done per thread.

        log4cxx::MDC::put( "application", "my application name" );

    3) While it was possible to send the "locationInfo" with the
    XMLSocketAppender, the
    same does not work on the SocketAppender/SocketReceiver pair, although
    the C++ code
    suggest that the location info is serialized. Any clou here?


This is a known version compatibility issue with the released version of Chainsaw. The current version of Log4j is the 1.2.x branch which is what Log4Cxx is a port of. A long while back work was started on a new 1.3 branch of Log4J. This branch was later abandoned and most of the features ported to the 1.2.x branch. There are differences between 1.2 and 1.3 that mean that 1.2 serialized location info and MDC properties do not deserialize correctly in 1.3. The problem is that the currently released version of Chainsaw is built with the 1.3 branch of Log4J.

For now stick to XMLSocketAppender. Feel free to complain loudly over on the Log4J forums about this. I find it unbelievable that there has been no new release of Chainsaw to fix this since the release of Chainsaw 2 1/2 years ago!

You're welcome to try to build Chainsaw yourself against the 1.2 branch. Good luck, I've never been able to do it.

Here is more info on this:

http://markmail.org/message/ih7q5rgfckmlowaw#query:log4j%20chainsaw%20MDC+page:1+mid:ny52attu27fglhnl+state:results

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Dale King

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