Dave, Depending on your specific use case, it may be easier to simply log to a well-known location on the system and point the user to that location. At least one problem with trying to figure out the location programatically is that a single logger can log to multiple sources at once, e.g. multiple files or to a database.
Regardless, you can probably use the following sequence(note: I have not tried this myself) 1. Get the logger that you want to get the appender for(that is, you must have a logger that logs to the file you want to get the name of) 2. Use logger.getAppender( std::string name ) or logger.getAppenders() and loop through all of the appenders. 3. Figure out which of the appenders is a FileAppender: https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/latest_stable/apidocs/classlog4cxx_1_1_file_appender.html (I think you need to use dynamic_cast here, but I'm not positive, I don't do much casting in C++) 4. Call the FileAppender.getFile() method. -Robert Middleton On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Dave Birdsall <dave.birds...@esgyn.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I’m a newbie to log4cxx (and lack familiarity with log4j). > > > > I have what is likely a naïve question. > > > > Suppose I am about to log some information to a log file. I’d like to tell > my user where that log file is (the path and file name) so the user doesn’t > have to hunt for it. Is there a programmatic way to obtain the log file > name? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave >
