Ralph,

Thanks for your suggestion - after a quick skim through the documentation it certainly looks like markers may provide the behaviour I'm looking for - will give that a try.

Regards,

Shane


On 15 December 2012 00:23, Ralph Goers <rgoers@apache.org> wrote:

See http://logback.qos.ch/manual/filters.html#levelFilter

Ralph

On Dec 14, 2012, at 6:40 AM, Benoît Thiébault wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have developed a custom LogBack appender and I would like it to receive only log messages of a given level. I don't want to hard code it in the class, but to set it in the XML configuration file.

I thought something like this would work (but it doesn't):
<root level="trace">
<appender-ref ref="FILE" />
<appender-ref ref="MyTraceAppender" />
<appender-ref ref="MyInfoAppender" level="info"/>
</root>

I also tried something like:
<appender name="MyTraceAppender" class="org.test.MyLogger1"/>
<appender name="MyInfoAppender" class="org.test.MyLogger2" level="info"/>

No luck either.

It seems only loggers can be assigned a threshold level. So I though about something like this:
<logger name="test" level="info">
    <appender-ref ref="MyInfoAppender" />
</logger>

but this would only log messages sent by classes whose package is test. *... And I want to log anything.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Ben
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