[logback-user] Switch logging to different files at runtime

20 May 2014

      I test to run a sample logging message to a file. But I am wondering
how can I switch logging to different files at runtime? For example,
initially the message is logged to <log_dir>/<file_a>.log. Later on I
would like the application to log message to <log_dir>/<file_b>.log.
Is it doable with logback lib?

I want to log message to logs/<parent_key_id>/<key_id>...log. Is
RollingPolicy configured to start up once? How can I change logging to
another log file such as logs/<parent_key_id1>/<key_id1>...log when
certain condition is met?

Thanks

The current setting:
logback.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration scan="false" debug="false">
  <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
    <rollingPolicy class="sample.logging.MyRollingPolicy">
      <FileNamePattern>%keyId_%d.log.gz</FileNamePattern>
      <MaxHistory>60</MaxHistory>
    </rollingPolicy>
    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
      <!-- http://logback.qos.ch/manual/layouts.html#PatternLayout -->
      <Pattern>[%4p] [%d{ISO8601}] [%t] %c{1}: %m%n</Pattern>
    </layout>
  </appender>
  <root level="INFO">
    <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
  </root>
</configuration>

MyRolling.scala
package sample.logging

import java.io.File

import ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy;

class MyRollingPolicy[E] extends TimeBasedRollingPolicy[E] {
  override def setFileNamePattern(fnp: String) {
    try{
      println("fnp passed in: "+fnp)
      val fnp1 = fnp.replace("%keyId", "k_1_3")
      println("[after replaced] fnp1 now is "+fnp1)

      val f = new File("logs/" + "parent_key_id");
      // Logback will create any necessary parent paths.
      super.setFileNamePattern(f.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + fnp1);
    } catch {
      case e: Exception => {
        println("something go wrong..."+e)
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
      }
    }
  }
}

[logback-user] Switch logging to different files at runtime

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