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Ralph Goers resolved LOG4J2-42.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc2
Created ServletContextAppender in revision 1601789. Please verify and close
> Improving log4j so it can easily be used with servlet logging
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> Key: LOG4J2-42
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-42
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: API
> Reporter: Curt Arnold
> Fix For: 2.0-rc2
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> On May 30, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> There is one more thing that I would really like to see in log4j 2.0, namely
> the ability for a servlet to log to a servlet container using log4j (and in
> slf4j too but that is a different story). Currently that cannot be done,
> because there is no way for the code asking for the logger to pass a "this"
> reference to the logging framework.
> I would suggest that in log4j 2.0 the LoggerManager.getLogger() signature is
> changed to accept the class (as now), and a varargs of Objects. The objects
> are passed to the appender when needing to do the actual logging, allowing a
> ServletLoggerAppender to look for any object extending GenericServlet and
> invoke its log method.
> For client code it would mean that the logger object was retreived similar to:
> Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass(), this);
> We might even consider making the rule in log4j 2.0 that "the name of the
> logger is the full name of the class of the first object"[2]. In that case
> we could make do with:
> Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this);
> This would most likely also result in much other code being cleaner by
> allowing to drop the "getClass()" clause.
> What do you think?
> [1]
> http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/api/javax/servlet/GenericServlet.html#log%28java.lang.String%29
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> [2] For backwards compatability instances of Class should be treated slightly
> different :)
> --
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "...plus... Tubular Bells!"
> The follows at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.log4j.devel/15576
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