Scott, First, I want to say that any changes you want to implement for Chainsaw will be appreciated and reviewed for inclusion. We all love Chainsaw around here...:-) (and LF5 too...:-).
Second, we have been kicking around the idea of having Chainsaw support "gui plugins" where each plugin configures a source of logging events. That way, developers could implement new "plugins", based on the generic interface, and Chainsaw would be able to pick them up with no changes. So, if you would like to spend some time making your code define and implement such a concept, that would be great. Third, your point of including the IP address in the logging event, yes it has been discussed before. One suggestion was to have the remote appenders place the info in the logging event prior to transmission under a known MDC key. Then the receiver could look for and use this key value. But it just occurred to me, can't the source be retrieved on the client side by querying the socket for the host/port information? And the source info may be source specific. For example, JMS messages may not make sense to have an ip address, but instead the jms topic the event was received on. It may make much more sense for the client to get this information. It may also make sense for the new Receivers in v1.3 to put this information somewhere in the logging event. -Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Deboy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:04 AM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: Chainsaw improvement question - support for multiple sources > > > I am tinkering with some enhancements to Chainsaw that I hope will be > accepted as part of the app when I'm done. > > I'm adding regexp-based filtering, saved settings, colorizing filters > and some other stuff. No problem so far. > > I'm also adding multicast support for LoggingEvents broadcast using > XMLLayout and UDPAppender. > > Here's my problem: I want to be able to differentiate > between different > LoggingEvent sources (different machines or different apps running on > the same machine) in the UI (I'm using a tabbedpane). > > However, I don't see a 'source identifier' in the > LoggingEvent (or DTD). > Am I missing something? > > I can get the IP address/name of the source machine but where would it > go in the XML? I suppose I could use a MDC to store the IP > address/custom identifier, if it were supported in the DTD, > but it seems > overkill to have to define a MDC for both the machine name > and custom id > on each thread when these are machine-wide (or application-wide) > settings. > > Is there some architectural changes to log4j in the pipe that will > provide this functionality or make adding these identifiers easier? > > I've got differentiation working right now using NDC but it's > a pain to > have to place the machine name in the NDC for every thread. > > Is there a better way or am I reinventing the wheel? > > Thanks, > Scott > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
