Hi Tom,
It is certainly not a bad idea, but how do you propose providing an "absolute path" for where the configuration file came from? First, you cannot determine an absolute path (if you mean file system path) if the file is being loaded from an archive such as a .jar or .war file since normal File IO cannot describe paths within the archive. However, printing out a URL might be doable. But then that is dependent on how the configuration was provided to Log4j. It would have to have come in as an absolute system path or a URL. What if the file was loaded via an InputStream? There is no location, it is just a stream of data. The calling program would know where it might have obtained the file (although that's not even guaranteed if it was just pulled from somewhere arbitrarily on the classpath) but log4j wouldn't know where it came from; it would just have the data.
So, if you can think of a way to take all the above into account, that would be great. Useful patches are always welcome for at least a review. They may not all be accepted, but we encourage participation from all, not just those who have commit access.
Jake
At 02:45 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Hello developers,
May I suggest a very simple addition? Either provide a function or
have log4j log (log4j.debug=true) the absolute paths of the
configuration files it has found.
Currently I have libraries that have log4j configuration files in
their JARs and of course the project itself has one. It would be
great if I could see what file log4j is using.
Now, you problably will tell me the create the fix myself (it is open
source software), but I have made a number of such alterations to
open source software, but because I cannot commit to CVS I had to
keep asking developers to please please please incorperate my
bugfixes. I'm not very thrilled to start up another thread. (I hope
this does not reflect negatively on my request, though.)
Tom
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