Author: ceki Date: Fri Nov 17 12:26:29 2006 New Revision: 937 Modified: logback/trunk/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/read/CyclicBufferAppender.java Log: minor changes Modified: logback/trunk/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/read/CyclicBufferAppender.java ============================================================================== --- logback/trunk/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/read/CyclicBufferAppender.java (original) +++ logback/trunk/logback-core/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/core/read/CyclicBufferAppender.java Fri Nov 17 12:26:29 2006 @@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ import ch.qos.logback.core.Layout; import ch.qos.logback.core.helpers.CyclicBuffer; +/** + * CyclicBufferAppender stores events in a cyclic buffer of user-specified size. As the + * name suggests, if the size of the buffer is N, only the latest N events are available. + * + * + * @author Ceki Gulcu + */ public class CyclicBufferAppender extends AppenderBase { CyclicBuffer cb; @@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ } public int getLength() { - if (cb != null) { + if (isStarted()) { return cb.length(); } else { return 0; @@ -45,7 +52,7 @@ } public Object get(int i) { - if (cb != null) { + if (isStarted()) { return cb.get(i); } else { return null; @@ -59,6 +66,9 @@ public void setLayout(Layout layout) { } + /** + * Set the size of the cyclic buffer. + */ public int getMaxSize() { return maxSize; }