Hi, Douglas, Jason,
Jason - thanks for your feedback! I'll definitely incorporate some of
that, especially around what's appropriate for each level.
Douglas - it's not as bad as writing my own layout, but it will make
some people uncomfortable! Here's the trick for changing the level
strings:
The "levelStr" member on Level has default ("package") access, and
it's writable. So in my webapp or jar file I usually create one new
class in the "org.apache.log4j" package that looks like this:
package org.apache.log4j;
public class LevelChanger {
public static void changeLevels() {
Level.DEBUG.levelStr = "_";
Level.INFO.levelStr = " ";
Level.WARN.levelStr = "!";
Level.ERROR.levelStr = "*";
Level.FATAL.levelStr = "***";
}
}
Even though LevelChanger is code I write and package in a separate jar
file, as long as I declare it part of the "org.apache.log4j", it can
change the level strings.
yours,
Julius
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:43 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> interesting reading... going to share some of this with my coworkers, even
> though we generally don't use log4j....
>
> thanks for sharing it.
>
> the last sentence piqued my interest:
>
> I find ! * + and [space] more convenient to work with than the verbose
> "INFO, DEBUG, ERROR, WARN".
>
> Is there a way to get the custom level indicators (besides writing your
> own layout?)?
>
> Douglas E Wegscheid
> Lead Technical Analyst, Whirlpool Corporation
> (269)-923-5278
>
> "A wrong note played hesitatingly is a wrong note. A wrong note played
> with conviction is interpretation."
>
>
>
--
yours,
Julius Davies
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