Configurator should report errors --------------------------------- Key: LOG4NET-2 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-2 Project: Log4net Type: Improvement Components: Core Versions: 1.2.9 Environment: From sourceforege - Tor Hovland - torhovl Reporter: Nicko Cadell
I understand that you do not want to throw exceptions from within the logging methods, as a failure in log4net would make the hosting app fail. However, I think it is necessary that DOMConfigurator throws exceptions. If a failure occurs at that point, for example due to a malformed configuration file, I believe the hosting app would in most cases like to know. Even if it doesn't, it could easily just swallow any exceptions. In my case, I have a Windows Service app that will just quit logging if there is an error in the configuration file. That makes the logging mechanism rather more fragile than I would like. Tor Hovland - torhovl --- I completely agree. I suggest that you take an additional step and provide an additional mechanism, perhaps a ValidateLoggers() method which operates like a standard logging call, but is capable of throwing exceptions or providing another form of feedback which would allow the caller to diagnose bad configurations. The configuration file can be well-formed, but logging can still fail for any number of reasons. Most applications that provide a logging mechanism employ a 'start-up banner' log entry at an INFO level. This would be a great time to detect any problems with the logging system itself. I currently have a project deployed at a customer site and despite a well formed config file... no logging is taking place. I don't know why, and there does not seem to be a simple way to diagnose the problem. Ben Newman - benjamin91 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - If you want more information on JIRA, or have a bug to report see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira