Heh, it seems more like you went out of your way to close off a
configuration method on purpose that you would know would still be in
high demand by a lot of people.
The choice to have only configuration per external file would
definitely have raised a lot of eyebrows. And I bet, still does with
anyone who reads that piece of the manual.
Quoted for truth ;-):
====
Configuration of Log4j 2 can be accomplished in 1 of 4 ways:
1. Through a configuration file written in XML, JSON, or YAML.
2. Programmatically, by creating a ConfigurationFactory and
Configuration implementation.
3. Programmatically, by calling the APIs exposed in the Configuration
interface to add components
to the default configuration.
4. Programmatically, by calling methods on the internal Logger class.
(...)
Note that unlike Log4j 1.x, the public Log4j 2 API does not expose
methods to add, modify or remove appenders and filters or manipulate
the configuration in any way.
====
The manual basically hides any form of information relevant to or
pertinent with manual configuration. The information is almost nowhere
to be found?
What the manual does indicate about manual configuration is not trivial:
"Modifying the way in which logging can be configured is usually one
of the areas with the most interest. The primary method for doing that
is by implementing or extending a ConfigurationFactory. Log4j provides
two ways of adding new ConfigurationFactories. The first is by
defining the system property named "log4j.configurationFactory" to the
name of the class that should be searched first for a configuration.
The second method is by defining the ConfigurationFactory as a Plugin."
Should a method for programmatic configuration exist and be
usable/reachable, supported and documented, many users would surely
use it or prefer it or make use of it.
So I don't think you've gone out of your way to please everyone ;-). I
think you made the rational choice to displease a lot of people. There
must be thousands of people who'd give preference to programmatic
configuration when given the choice. That's just the reality of it.
I'm sorry but uhm yeah. I still think I need to use Log4j 2 but I'll
go about experimenting with its configuration in the coming days.
Thanks you for your help in any case :).
See ya :).
X.
Quoting Ralph Goers <[email protected]>:
I guess you can't please everybody.
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