[logback-user] FileAppender : change log filename at runtime with a datePattern

[Alessio Pollero]

Hi to all, 
i just switched to logback from log4j now and i want to change at runtime some 
settings contained in the logback.xml configuration file.
I have a logback.xml configuration file that looks like the following : 

<configuration>

 <property name="defaultPattern"
        value="%d{dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level - %msg%n" />

 <!-- Appenders Configuration -->
  <appender name="CONSOLE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <target>System.err</target>
    <filter class="com.aleroot.ErrOutFilter" />
    <encoder>
      <pattern>${defaultPattern}</pattern>
    </encoder>
  </appender>
 
  <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
    <file>aleroot.log</file>
    <append>true</append>
    <encoder>
      <pattern>${defaultPattern}</pattern>
    </encoder>
  </appender>
  
  
  <!-- Output Configuration -->
  <root level="debug">
    <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
  </root>
  
  <logger name="mainLogger" level="debug">
    <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
</logger>
  
</configuration>


i want to change the file property of the FILE appender at runtime and add a 
DatePattern to the filename, i've tried with this code : 

LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
              ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger logbackLogger = 
lc.getLogger("mainLogger");
              FileAppender<ILoggingEvent> fileAppender =
                  (FileAppender<ILoggingEvent>) 
logbackLogger.getAppender("FILE");
                      if(fileAppender != null) {
                        fileAppender.stop();
                        fileAppender.setFile("aleroot-ddMMyyyy.log");
                        fileAppender.setContext(lc);
                        fileAppender.start();
                      }

The problem is that the file aleroot.log is created anyway also if i have 
changed the filename, furthermore i get another file that is named exactly : 
aleroot-ddMMyyyy.log while i want to have a filename like aleroot-04122011.log 
. How can i achieve that ? 

Is there a settings to avoid that the log file will be created at the 
LoggerFactory.getLogger("mainLogger")  call ? I want that the log file will be 
created only the first time that i write into the log files, there is no need 
to create an empty log file .
The log file should be created the first time that i log something to the log, 
for example at the first logger.debug("Something.log") , Is there a settings to 
achieve that ? 

Thanks.


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