Ceki obviously reads this list as he marked SLF4J-240 in progress right after I 
posted the message below. Keep an eye on that for a fix.

While your in there Ceki, the contains methods in BasicMarker aren’t 
thread-safe.

Ralph

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Apache <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> Markers would work but I wouldn’t recommend using them with SLF4J. See 
> https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-240 <https://jira.qos.ch/browse/SLF4J-240>. 
> It has been open for over 5 years so I’m of the impression it will never be 
> fixed. 
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/performance.html#Advanced_Filtering 
> <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/performance.html#Advanced_Filtering> 
> shows that filtering on Markers becomes a huge bottleneck in a multithreaded 
> system.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
>> On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/23/2017 1:09 PM, Apache wrote:
>>> You shouldn’t be trying to modify the logger. You should be trying to 
>>> modify the configuration. Take a look at 
>>> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/customconfig.html#Programmatically_Modifying_the_Current_Configuration_after_Initialization
>>>  
>>> <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/customconfig.html#Programmatically_Modifying_the_Current_Configuration_after_Initialization>
>>>  
>>> <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/customconfig.html#Programmatically_Modifying_the_Current_Configuration_after_Initialization
>>>  
>>> <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/customconfig.html#Programmatically_Modifying_the_Current_Configuration_after_Initialization>>.
>>>  That example creates an appender and a logger and adds them. In your case, 
>>> you would want to find loggerConfig associated with your logger by calling 
>>> config.getLoggerConfig(“loggerName”). Then add the filter to that.
>>> 
>>> That said, you should probably explain what you are actually trying to do. 
>>> More often than not, dynamically updating the logging configuration is 
>>> unnecessary as what you really want to do can be achieved other ways.
>> 
>> Thanks. 
>> What I'm trying to do is to run JUnit testing of an old logging facade that 
>> I've
>> bridged to log4j-2. 
>> 
>> In the test, I set a filter, and want to see that it worked.
>> 
>> While I have your attention, I'm bridging from a format that used the JUL
>> "CONFIG" level, and would like to know how to represent this in a "neutral" 
>> way
>> for modern loggers.  (I'm thinking of SLF4J, Log4J, and LogBack). My thought 
>> is
>> to map CONFIG requests to INFO requests with a "Marker" identifying CONFIG. 
>> Same goes for FINE/FINER - mapping to TRACE, with markers for the two
>> alternatives.  To make this work, I'm implementing special "Filters" :-). 
>> 
>> Is there a better way?  I know you can introduce additional levels in 
>> Log4j-2,
>> but that doesn't seem to be supported in SLF4J and LogBack, and I'm looking 
>> for
>> a more universal approach.
>> 
>> Thanks. -Marshall
>> 
>>> 
>>> Ralph
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm writing test cases, using version 2.8 of Log4j.
>>>> 
>>>> One test sets a filter on a logger.
>>>> 
>>>> Looking (afterwards) at the logger, I see that the logger has a field:
>>>> 
>>>> "privateConfig", and that has two fields for configuration info:
>>>> 
>>>> - config (set to an instance of XmlConfiguration)
>>>> - loggerConfig (has the filter I set on the logger).
>>>> 
>>>> The code for isEnabled in Logger (line 238):
>>>> public boolean isEnabled(final Level level, final Marker marker, final 
>>>> Object
>>>> message, final Throwable t) {
>>>>      return privateConfig.filter(level, marker, message, t);
>>>>  }
>>>> 
>>>> privateConfig.filter() although it has both a "config" and a 
>>>> "loggerConfig",
>>>> only checks the config.
>>>> 
>>>> The fact that I successfully used an API to set the loggerConfig with a 
>>>> filter
>>>> is ignored.
>>>> 
>>>> Should the design for privateConfig.filter() check both configs, or is 
>>>> there
>>>> some API call to "merge" the change I did that was recorded in the field
>>>> "loggerConfig" into the config stored in the field "config"?
>>>> 
>>>> -Marshall Schor
>>>> 
>>>> P.S., here's the API call I did to set a filter:
>>>> 
>>>> // coreLogger is a cast of a normal logger, to enable the get() method
>>>> coreLogger.get().addFilter(myFilter);
>>>> 
>>>> // not sure if this is needed, but did it anyways
>>>> coreLogger.getContext().updateLoggers(); 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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