I imagine that we added more parameters to some of the methods since it was first published.
What do you mean by "it doesn’t work”? Are you getting an exception? Since no Loggers were modified to point to your new appender I am thinking all it is going to do is create an empty file. This seems like a follow-on to our discussion in the Jira issue about the PrintStream where you were doing the same thing. Ralph > On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our nice example "Programmatically Modifying the Current Configuration after > Initialization" does not work. (The PatternLayout.create() call does not > compile too). > > I've simplified it to: > > @Test > public void test() { > final LoggerContext ctx = (LoggerContext) > LogManager.getContext(false); > final Configuration config = ctx.getConfiguration(); > Layout<?> layout = PatternLayout.createDefaultLayout(); > Appender appender = FileAppender.createAppender("target/test.log", > "false", "false", "File", "true", "false", > "false", "4000", layout, null, "false", null, config); > appender.start(); > config.addAppender(appender); > ctx.updateLoggers(); > LogManager.getLogger().error("FOO MSG"); > } > > and it creates an empty file. > > What am I missing? The test class has nothing else in it. > > Gary > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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 <http://garygregory.wordpress.com/> > Home: http://garygregory.com/ <http://garygregory.com/> > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory <http://twitter.com/GaryGregory>
