If your examples included loggers I think it would show these added verbose entries would be another logger at INFO but not a separate severity.
I think of levels in terms of relative numeric severity. DEBUG < INFO <WARN <ERROR etc. Chainsaw supports this kind of logic in filtering colorizing and searching for events. Where would verbose go? I would put it below DEBUG myself. Btw this advice to use another logger in most cases doesn't mean there aren't cases where additional levels aren't useful. Just something to think about. Scott On Oct 7, 2013 7:30 PM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All: > > I've just come across the need for distinguishing log entries somewhat > between what INFO and DEBUG provide. > > I think of the DEBUG level as a watermark where data is provided for > developers and support to do deep debugging. INFO is for users. But I see > the need now for providing an easy way to give user more information (hence > VERBOSE or another word) which is not at the DEBUG level of detail. > > Ideally, I'd like this in INFO mode: > > INFO Reading configuration > INFO Running server > > Then in a new VERBOSE mode: > > INFO Reading configuration > VERBOSE Reading accounts > VERBOSE Reading this config data > VERBOSE Reading that config data > VERBOSE Reading other config data > INFO Running server > > The in DEBUG mode, you'd get all the things that are real debug > information like > > DEBUG Configuration location was not provided on the command line. > DEBUG Searching classpath for configuration: cp entries > DEBUG Searching user home for configuration: c:\users\... > DEBUG Found configuration at location xzy, last modified date: ... > INFO Reading configuration > > 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 >
