Yes, I'm programmatically adding appenders. I understand the point of view.
And what about having access to the properties of the appender as the target of the ConsoleLogger? I know that this property is wrapped into an OutputStream and into a OutputStreamManager but I think it could be nice to have access to it from the ConsoleAppender. Clément On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you programmatically adding the Appender? > > I suggest the reconfiguration method because it allows for gracefully > switching to a new configuration. Some appenders need fields to remain > immutable for performance or safety reasons, so creating a new Appender on > reconfigure is generally the safer option. > > > On 26 August 2014 02:43, Clément Guillaume <cguilla...@hotpads.com> wrote: > > > Yes, I know that. > > So if I have 10 LoggerConfigs that use the same Appender and I want to > > change a property of this Appender, I should create a new one and update > > the appender list (remove the old one and add the new one) of my 10 > > LoggerConfigs? > > There isn't a simpler way, is there? > > > > Clément > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > If you reconfigure Log4j at runtime, you can switch over to a new > > > LoggerConfig without losing any messages. If you're holding direct > > > references to LoggerConfig, you should probably step back a level and > get > > > that on demand instead. > > > > > > > > > On 25 August 2014 14:22, Clément Guillaume <cguilla...@hotpads.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I would love to have a direct access to the target of a > ConsoleAppender > > > (as > > > > I can directly get the fileName of a FileAppender). Do you plan to > > > > implement this feature ? (and also for others properties like > > > > ConsoleAppender.isFollow or FileAppender.immediateFlush, ...) > > > > > > > > > > > > I also would love to be able to dynamically update thess properties. > I > > > > don't think it is currently possible. > > > > Or at least I would like to be able to replace an Appender in the > > > > Configuration (by a new one) without removing the Appender from all > the > > > > previously associated LoggerConfig. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Clément > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >
