On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All, > > I have a solution implemented locally that does not output ANSI escapes if > there is no console (it logs a warning to the status logger if it detects > this condition on start up). > > I am wondering if the Console element should have an attribute called > "autoHideAnsi" or some such to still output ANSI escapes even if there is > no console. > Coming back to this, I think the simplest solution is to add an attribute to PatternLayout. Does anyone have a better name than autoHideAnsi? Gary > Gary > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> Here is my pickle: >> >> I have a stock XML config file I package with a standalone app. >> >> When I run it on the Windows command line, I want to use a JAnsi logger, >> it works. >> >> When I run the app within Eclipse, the Eclipse console displays junk for >> the escape codes, not so nice. >> >> So I'd like Log4J to use a plain Console appender in this case. >> >> The question is: >> >> Should Log4J detect that there is no real console? If you call >> "java.io.Console.console()" from Eclipse, you get null, so that would be >> one way to gracefully detect that there is no console. >> >> Or: >> >> Should I be able to have some condition in the config that says if ... >> enable this appender else enable that one. >> >> Or: >> >> Should I be able to configure each appender with an "unless" attibute >> (like in Ant) that tells Log4j to enable the appender unless some condition >> is not met. It could be "if" instead of "unless" but you get the idea. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second >> Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second > Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
