Re: [logback-user] Is there a Junit appender?

28 Apr 2010

      Thanks, this seems to be what I'm looking for, but I'm having a few problems.

1. I've checked the source code and I only see ListAppender being used in AppenderTrackerTest and StringListAppender. You said it's is used extensively, am I missing something?

2. Below is my code. It seems to work, but now the tests are echo'ing all log messages to stdout. Prior to this change the messages were going to SLF4j's NOP binding. I suspect this is because the Logback classic jar is on the classpath and is getting picked up. Long story short, I don't want log messages echo'd to stdout when running tests. Any ideas?

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public class DealingIntegrationTest extends AbstractIntegrationTest {
    private ListAppender<ILoggingEvent> m_listAppender;

    @Before
    public void setupLogging() {
        Logger root = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
        m_listAppender = new ListAppender<ILoggingEvent>();
        m_listAppender.start();
        root.addAppender(m_listAppender);
    }

    @After
    public void teardownLogging() {
        Logger root = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
        root.detachAppender(m_listAppender);
        System.out.println("List " + m_listAppender.list);
    }

    // tests follow ....

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: logback-user-bounces@qos.ch [mailto:logback-user-bounces@qos.ch] On Behalf Of Ceki Gülcü
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:37 PM
To: logback users list
Subject: Re: [logback-user] Is there a Junit appender?

As Robert mentioned, there is an appender called ListAppender located in the ch.qos.logback.core.read package.

Assuming the ListAppender was previously attached to the root logger under the name "LIST", the test pattern would be:

import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
...

@Test
public void test() {
   Logger root =
       (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
   ListAppender la = root.getAppender("LIST");
   root.debug("hello");
   assertEquals(1, listAppender.list.size());
   assertEquals("hello", listAppender.list.get(0).getMessage());
}

You can also attach the ListAppender to the root logger in code. For example,

ListAppender<ILoggingEvent> listAppender =
                   new ListAppender<ILoggingEvent>(); listAppender.start(); root.addAppender(listAppender); Logger logger = lc.getLogger(LoggerTest.class); assertEquals(0, listAppender.list.size()); logger.debug("hello"); assertEquals(1, listAppender.list.size());

Logback uses ListAppender pretty extensively for its own unit testing. 
Check the logback source code for more examples.

HTH,

On 28/04/2010 8:22 PM, Robert Elliot wrote:
...
Logback has a list appender that just stores all logging events in a 
list that you can query. That's what I use for unit testing logging.
On 28 Apr 2010, at 19:16, "Chris Helck" <Chris.Helck@us.icap.com 
<mailto:Chris.Helck@us.icap.com>> wrote:
...
I want to unit test some objects and to check that the objects are 
logging certain messages under certain cirmcumstances. Is this 
possible? Is it easy?
I am using slf4j. When I run the unit tests I use the NOP logger, in 
production we use logback.
I want something like:
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyStuff.class);
logger.info <http://logger.info>( "Hello World");
assertTrue( logger.wasLoggedAsInfo( "Hello World"));
Thanks,
C. Helck
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