That would certainly be a possible explanation. I'm working on figuring out
how to upgrade to log4j 2.3. Hopefully that will solve my custom levels issue.
Thanks,
Nick
> Subject: Re: custom levels via configuration
> From: ralph.go...@dslextreme.com
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:05:02 -0700
> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
>
> Custom log levels weren’t added to Log4j 2 until version 2.1, so if the
> version you are using is older than that it is no surprise that it isn’t
> working.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On Aug 26, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > While I work on figuring out how to get a newer version of log4j2 installed
> > I'm wondering whether there is some additional investigation I can do with
> > the version I have. For instance, I was hoping with the level of logging I
> > have enabled, that log4j would be indicating some issue it had with the
> > custom level. However, I don't see such an issue. The only thing I see is
> > an issue with the custom level, which I'm guessing is when I'm using it in
> > the filter. I've attached the warning in the log below.
> >
> > Is there some additional logging I can turn on such that log4j will produce
> > more info which might indicate why my custom levels aren't working? Here
> > is my current log4j2 configuration.
> >
> > log4j2.xml:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <Configuration status="trace" verbose="true">
> > <CustomLevels>
> > <CustomLevel name="INFOM1" intLevel="399"/>
> > <CustomLevel name="INFOP1" intLevel="401"/>
> > </CustomLevels>
> > <Appenders>
> > <File name="info" fileName="info.log">
> > <PatternLayout>
> > <Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
> > </PatternLayout>
> > <Filters>
> > <ThresholdFilter level="INFOM1" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/>
> > <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
> > </Filters>
> > </File>
> > </Appenders>
> > <Loggers>
> > <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
> > <AppenderRef ref="info"/>
> > </Logger>
> > <Root>
> > </Root>
> > </Loggers>
> > </Configuration>
> >
> > snippet of console output:
> >
> > 2015-08-26 14:26:21,070 WARN Error while converting string [INFOM1] to type
> > [class org.apache.logging.log4j.Level]. Using default value [null].
> > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown level constant [INFOM1].
> > at org.apache.logging.log4j.Level.valueOf(Level.java:281)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters$LevelConverter.convert(TypeConverters.java:240)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters$LevelConverter.convert(TypeConverters.java:237)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters.convert(TypeConverters.java:343)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.visitors.AbstractPluginVisitor.convert(AbstractPluginVisitor.java:130)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.visitors.PluginAttributeVisitor.visit(PluginAttributeVisitor.java:44)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.generateParameters(PluginBuilder.java:233)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:131)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:748)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:683)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:349)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:150)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:358)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:416)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:146)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:75)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:37)
> > at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:473)
> > at HelloWorld.<clinit>(HelloWorld.java:7)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:36:40 -0700
> >> Subject: Re: custom levels via configuration
> >> From: garydgreg...@gmail.com
> >> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
> >>
> >> We've never released a version "2.0-1.fc21" so it must be a Fedora build,
> >> presumably based on 2.0 or some fork of it.
> >>
> >> You need to test with version 2.3 or a 2.4-SNAPSHOT. I'll leave you to
> >> Google how to install 2.3 on Fedora ;-)
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> First off let me admit that I'm a noob at both Linux and java, and log4j
> >>> for that matter.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know how to package anything so my class that you see is a simple
> >>> java class which I compiled using javac. I then run it using 'java
> >>> HelloWorld'. I'm running fedora 21. When I do a 'yum list log4j' it says
> >>> I have 2.0-1.fc21.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Nick
> >>>
> >>>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:46:51 -0700
> >>>> Subject: Re: custom levels via configuration
> >>>> From: garydgreg...@gmail.com
> >>>> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
> >>>>
> >>>> This:
> >>>>
> >>>> <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
> >>>>
> >>>> is only going to match:
> >>>>
> >>>> static Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(HelloWorld.class.getName());
> >>>>
> >>>> if the class in unpackaged, which it looks it is based on this paste but
> >>> I
> >>>> want to double check that you did not omit anything from the example.
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you using the latest version (2.3)?.
> >>>>
> >>>> I just added this test the other day to Git master:
> >>>>
> >>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.CustomLevelsTest
> >>>>
> >>>> And it shows that we can configure custom levels from a file and see them
> >>>> in code.
> >>>>
> >>>> So I am puzzled here.
> >>>>
> >>>> You could try the latest from Git master as well but I do not recall any
> >>>> fixes in this area.
> >>>>
> >>>> I wonder if the Appenders are processed by the configuration _before_ the
> >>>> custom levels...
> >>>>
> >>>> Gary
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On to my next problem. I'm trying to define a custom level in
> >>>>> configuration. Not sure if it's working or not. However, when I
> >>> attempt
> >>>>> to get the level for that custom level I get back null, which I wasn't
> >>>>> expecting. Here is the log4j2.xml config file:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >>>>> <Configuration status="trace" verbose="true">
> >>>>> <CustomLevels>
> >>>>> <CustomLevel name="INFOM1" intLevel="399"/>
> >>>>> <CustomLevel name="INFOP1" intLevel="401"/>
> >>>>> </CustomLevels>
> >>>>> <Appenders>
> >>>>> <File name="info" fileName="info.log">
> >>>>> <PatternLayout>
> >>>>> <Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
> >>>>> </PatternLayout>
> >>>>> <Filters>
> >>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFOM1" onMatch="DENY"
> >>> onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/>
> >>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
> >>>>> </Filters>
> >>>>> </File>
> >>>>> </Appenders>
> >>>>> <Loggers>
> >>>>> <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
> >>>>> <AppenderRef ref="info"/>
> >>>>> </Logger>
> >>>>> <Root>
> >>>>> </Root>
> >>>>> </Loggers>
> >>>>> </Configuration>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here is my code:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
> >>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
> >>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> public class HelloWorld
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> static Logger log =
> >>> LogManager.getLogger(HelloWorld.class.getName());
> >>>>>
> >>>>> public static void main(String[] args)
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> System.out.println("Hello, World");
> >>>>> log.info("hello this is an INFO message");
> >>>>> log.warn("hello this is a WARN message");
> >>>>> log.debug("hello this is a DEBUG message");
> >>>>> Level level = Level.getLevel("INFOM1");
> >>>>> if (level == null)
> >>>>> System.out.println("Didn't find level INFOM1");
> >>>>> else
> >>>>> log.log(level, "hello this is an INFOM1 message");
> >>>>> level = Level.getLevel("INFOP1");
> >>>>> if (level == null)
> >>>>> System.out.println("Didn't find level INFOP1");
> >>>>> else
> >>>>> log.log(level, "hello this is an INFOP1 message");
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> }
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any ideas? I obviously don't want to use Level.forName() as that will
> >>>>> create the level if it doesn't exist and I want to ensure I'm pulling
> >>> the
> >>>>> value from the configuration.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Nick
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org
> >>>> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org
> >> 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
> >
>
>
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