Right, the hard part is explaining how to use it, combine it, and how put all the puzzle pieces together. Gary
-------- Original message -------- From: Ralph Goers <[email protected]> Date: 08/25/2015 21:28 (GMT-08:00) To: Log4J Users List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: range filter? Why not? It would take about 10 minutes to implement. In fact, I am sure it would take more time to document it than to implement it. Ralph > On Aug 25, 2015, at 8:42 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got to say that I use MarkerFilters all the time, but I still need to > refresh my brain when I've not used them in a while. > > If providing a LevelRangeFilter would be less confusing, then perhaps we > should write one. > > Gary > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe. However, I'm having a hard time following what the configuration >> is saying and thus have no idea what I would need to put in the >> configuration. Here is a snippet from that post: >> >> <!-- Now deny warn, error and fatal messages --> >> >> <ThresholdFilter level="warn" onMatch="DENY" >> onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> >> >> <ThresholdFilter level="error" onMatch="DENY" >> onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> >> <ThresholdFilter level="fatal" onMatch="DENY" >> onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/> >> >> <!-- This filter accepts info, warn, error, fatal and denies >> debug/trace --> >> >> <ThresholdFilter level="info" onMatch="ACCEPT" >> onMismatch="DENY"/> >> >> >> The top three seem as if they would deny warn, error and fatal, yet the >> third says it accepts info, warn, error and fatal. And while I understand >> those in isolation, I think, I have no idea how the <filters> composite >> would handle this. Why are the first three needed? How does the >> CompositeFilter work? Does it try to match on each filter in the list of >> stop as soon as it gets a DENY? >> >> What if I wanted to setup a filter which just accepted WARN? And on top >> of that ensure that if anyone defined any custom levels which are maybe >> just 1 away from WARN in either direction that those don't make it in the >> appender. How would you do that? >> >> How I did this with the log4net LevelRangeFilter was to set the levelMin >> and levelMax to the same value. >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> >>> Subject: Re: range filter? >>> From: [email protected] >>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:12:29 +0900 >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> You misread the comment. The commentor basically told me the answer >> works with a minor change, and that he would mark the question as "done" if >> I would edit my answer (which I did). >>> >>> So the answer works and seems to apply to your use case, no? The >> question is if it also works with custom levels. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 2015/08/26, at 8:49, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks. I checked out the link. It seems they were trying to do >> something similar to me. I see the last comment on that is that it doesn't >> work. >>>> >>>> There is another post afterwards which uses the ThresholdFilter. >> However the ThresholdFilter won't work as that allows, or denys, all levels >> greater than or equal to or less than or equal to the level. I need to >> filter a specific range of levels. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Nick >>>> >>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:27:04 +0900 >>>>> Subject: Re: range filter? >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> Can you try something similar to this >>>>> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24695133/log4j2-filter-particular-level-in-apender/24697002#24697002 >>>>> and see if that works with custom levels as well? >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I've tried a couple different combinations and so far no luck. >> Here's >>>>>> the current configuration I tested with which doesn't work: >>>>>> >>>>>> <File ...> >>>>>> <PatternLayout> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> </PatternLayout> >>>>>> <Filters> >>>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="DENY"/> >>>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="DEBUG" onMatch="ACCEPT"/> >>>>>> </Filters> >>>>>> </File> >>>>>> >>>>>> The >>>>>> use case for why I want such a filter is to forward a range of events >>>>>> to an appender. The threshold filter won't work because it will send >>>>>> all events matching a certain level and lower to the appender. For >>>>>> instance, I might want all DEBUG, TRACE and VERBOSE events going to >> one >>>>>> appender. All INFO, ERROR and WARN events going to another appender. >>>>>> All BUSINESS events (my custom) level, going to yet another appender. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Nick >>>>>> >>>>>>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:17:44 -0700 >>>>>>> Subject: Re: range filter? >>>>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When you get it working, it sounds like it would make a nice >> addition to >>>>>>> the FAQ with a description of your use case. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Gary >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ralph Goers < >> [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I believe two threshold filters inside a composite filter should >> should >>>>>>>> work provided you have the onMatch and onMismatch set >> appropriately. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Ralph >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Nicholas Duane <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'm looking for a range filter in log4j2. I see there is on in >>>>>> log4net >>>>>>>> and it appears there was one written by someone for log4j 1. Just >>>>>>>> wondering if there is something 'out of the box' in log4j2 that >> will >>>>>>>> accomplish the same? I was wondering whether this could be >>>>>> accomplished >>>>>>>> with the CompositeFilter with two ThresholdFilter? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>> Nick >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: >> [email protected] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> E-Mail: [email protected] | [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 >>>>>>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>>>>>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> > > > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [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 > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
