Also if you eliminated the .n part of the filename and just went with date
and time as the filename then you could do it with TimeBasedRollingPolicy as
the rolling policy and SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy as the triggering policy.
There should be no conflict.
Using this your filenames would be like:
MyLog.2008-09-08_01_23_57_AM.log
MyLog.2008-09-08_05_37_04_PM.log
You would need to choose a time resolution that was shorter than the time it
takes to exceed the size. If you don't you will keep logging to the same log
file even though the size is exceeded.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Dale King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can't with log4cxx as it exists. You don't want TimeBasedRollingPolicy.
> You want SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy with FixedWindowRollingPolicy. But
> FixedWindowRollingPolicy only supports the index format specifier. If you
> subclassed FixedWindowRollingPolicy and overrode getFormatSpecifiers to be
> something like this:
>
> PatternMap specs;
> RULES_PUT("i", IntegerPatternConverter);
> RULES_PUT("index", IntegerPatternConverter);
> RULES_PUT("d", FileDatePatternConverter);
> RULES_PUT("date", FileDatePatternConverter);
> return specs;
>
> You could get close. I'll bet though it probably will not work completely
> like you think it will. For instance it will only start a new log file when
> the size is exceeded. So if there are few messages you could have the same
> log file for weeks.
>
> I think there is definitely some room for improvement in the area of
> policies. For example, TimeBasedRollingPolicy cannot be used as a triggering
> policy unless it is also the rolling policy. If you do, once it triggers it
> will trigger for every message thereafter.
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Alex Rosenbaum <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to implement logging to rolling files. I want rollover to
>> occur when the size reaches certain limit. At the same time I'd like file
>> name to include date stamp, so the result looks like:
>>
>> MyLog.2008-09-08.log
>> MyLog.2008-09-08.1.log
>> MyLog.2008-09-08.2.log
>> ... etc.
>>
>> I started with log4cxx::RollingFileAppender, but it doesn't seem to
>> support FileName patterns.
>> Next, I tried log4cxx::rolling::RollingFileAppender with
>> TimeBasedRollingPolicy. This option does not allow rollover to be triggered
>> by file size.
>> Next, I tried log4cxx::rolling::RollingFileAppender with
>> TimeBasedRollingPolicy and SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy, but it seemed to
>> create a conflict because TimeBasedRollingPolicy also sets Triggering policy
>> for the appender.
>>
>> What is the solution I am looking for?
>>
>> *Alex Rozenbaum*
>> Consultant
>>
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>>
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