What is the use case? How do you intend to take advantage of the marker information?
At 09:50 PM 2/7/2007, you wrote: >This example was thread specific, but my specific use involves multiple >sessions (mina.apache.org) serviced by a thread pool. So, a context needs >to be associated with the session and not the thread servicing it. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Ceki Gülcü >Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:41 PM >To: User list for the slf4j project; User list for the slf4j project >Subject: Re: [slf4j-user] Marker for object identification? > > >If you just want to differentiate between multiple threads, you can use >set an MDC [1]. When your runnable object gets garbage-collected, so will >the MDC. The Marker solution could also work, except that Markers can only >be created, not deleted. (Markers do not need to exist in a config file to >be referenced in code. You can create a marker at any time.) > >So for in the case of your example as presented in your message, I'd go >with MDC. > >[1] http://logback.qos.ch/manual/mdc.html > >At 09:25 PM 2/7/2007, Newcomb, Michael-P57487 wrote: > >public class Foo > > implements Runnable > >{ > > protected final String name; > > > > protected final Marker marker; > > protected final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass()); > > > > public Foo(String name) > > { > > this.name = name; > > > > marker = MarkerFactory.getMarker(name); > > } > > > > public void run() > > { > > while (true) > > { > > ... > > > > log.debug(marker, "some stuff"); > > > > ... > > } > > } > >} > > > >new Thread(new Foo("A")).start(); > >new Thread(new Foo("B")).start(); > > > > > >So you could see the logs for each Foo ('A' and 'B')... > > > >Also, can Markers be created on the fly by using > >MarkerFactory.getMarker()? Or does that Marker have to exist in a > >config file somewhere... (e.g. what does LogBack do?) > > > >Thanks, > >Michael > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >Of Ceki Gülcü > >Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:14 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [slf4j-user] Marker for object identification? > > > > > >Hi Michael, > > > >I don't fully understand your question. However, you can use a marker > >to color a log request so that it triggers some particular treatment. > >Does this help? > > > >At 09:10 PM 2/7/2007, Newcomb, Michael-P57487 wrote: > > > > >Can/Should markers be used to identify specific objects? The only > > >example I see is for use with the 'TRACE' marker, but was wondering > > >if markers could/should be used object identification as well. > > > > > >Thanks, > > >Michael > > >_______________________________________________ > > >user mailing list > > >[email protected] > > >http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > >-- > >Ceki Gülcü > >Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for > Java. > >http://logback.qos.ch > > > >_______________________________________________ > >user mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > >_______________________________________________ > >user mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > >-- >Ceki Gülcü >Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java. >http://logback.qos.ch > >_______________________________________________ >user mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >_______________________________________________ >user mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user -- Ceki Gülcü Logback: The reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework for Java. http://logback.qos.ch _______________________________________________ user mailing list [email protected] http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
