Thanks Ceki! I see it in 1.0.0 : ) Cheers, Eric C On Nov 1, 2011, at 12:51 AM, ceki wrote:

Hi Eric,

If you look at LoggerAction from the source repository, you should see that it already does substitution.

Cheers, -- Ceki http://twitter.com/#!/ceki

On 01/11/2011 4:50 AM, Eric Charlton wrote:

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Hello,

In AppenderAction, there is a line: String appenderName = ec.subst(attributes.getValue(NAME_ATTRIBUTE));

In LoggerAction, this is the equivalent: String loggerName = attributes.getValue(NAME_ATTRIBUTE);

The LoggerAction doesn't substitute from context. My guess is that there is a good reason why properties are not substituted in logger names....? That's my question.

Here's where this comes from:

I thought it would be nifty to route some logs via a shared properties file (shared between the app and logback.xml config) like so:

<property resource="logbackProps.properties" />

<logger name="${customLoggerName}> <------------this is what doesn't work because LoggerAction doesn't substitute properties <appender-ref ref="SOME_FILE_APPENDER" /> </logger>

Then put a logger name in the logbackProps.properties file:

customLoggerName=userAuthLogger

Then in code (let's say a user authentication DAO) I could:

private static Logger authenticationlogger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ClassThatGetsProperties.getPropertyValueFor(ConstantsEnum.customLoggerName));

Thanks and Cheers! Eric C

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