Throwable Debugging with Log4J 1.3 (patch for 1.3a? )

[Kevin A. Burton]

I just blogged about 1.3a here... http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2004/12/18/ThrowableDebuggingWithLog4J13/ Any chance I could see this feature added? Now lets take this one step further now that they're working on 1.3 and suggest a small bit critical feature : Most people use Log4J with a logger based on the classname: So we would probably see: static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( "org.apache.commons.feedparser.locate.FeedLocator" ); Which is amazingly verbose. A lot of developers shorten this to: static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( FeedLocator.class ); But this still leaves us with cut and paste errors. What if we could just reduce it to: static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(); The code for this is pretty simple. All you have to do is add the following getLogger() method: public static Logger getLogger() { Exception e = new Exception(); String category = e.getStackTrace()[1].getClassName(); return LoggerManager.getLogger( category ); } I'm going to send this to the log4j developer list and hope they add it. -- Use Rojo (RSS/Atom aggregator). Visit http://rojo.com. Ask me for an invite! Also see irc.freenode.net #rojo if you want to chat. Rojo is Hiring! - http://www.rojonetworks.com/JobsAtRojo.html If you're interested in RSS, Weblogs, Social Networking, etc... then you should work for Rojo! If you recommend someone and we hire them you'll get a free iPod! Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA AIM/YIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 5FB2 F3E2 760E 70A8 6174 D393 E84D 8D04 99F1 4412