All~ For what it is worth, my company wants this feature as well. Actually we want it enough that we went ahead and implemented it. I have uploaded patches that add the feature, and we are simply waiting for things to proceed. http://bugzilla.qos.ch/show_bug.cgi?id=107 Matt On Jan 11, 2008 6:16 AM, Laedret <Henric.Larsson@igindex.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to "ask" for this feature. For two reasons, the first being easier migration from log4j. The second because the classpath hack is rather ugly. It's too easy to have someone sneak in a logback.xml or loback-test.xml somewhere in the classpath by mistake or on purpose as part of some library and suddenly there's a world of pain trying to work our what jar file amongst hundreds that contains it.
It's a way of telling the application to use a specific file and no other file and there's no questions about which file was used. Personally I prefer being explicit about this, because of experience with log4j config's littered around various libraries.
I think your point is valid that keeping things simple makes learning and using logback simpler but having the option to specify the name of the file adds flexibility without any real cost in complexity.
The way logback looks for the test config before the regular config is brilliant for development purposes and the case where an application only needs one production config, but at least in our production environment we deploy the same application in various enviroments and they all need different log configs - which we currently solved by having more than one log config as part of the application bundle and specifiying the path/name as a system property.
$0.02
Cheers, Henric
Ceki Gulcu-2 wrote:
There are no such plans. At this time, we try to offer only features users actually ask for. On the long term, this is beneficial for both developers and users. Less code to maintain for us and easier for users to grasp the library (less things to learn).
thebugslayer wrote:
this will work.
Is there plan to add user specifiy config file in the future? I found that is easier to instruct end user rather than affecting classpath.
Thanks. -zemian
On 10/13/07, Ceki Gulcu <listid@qos.ch> wrote:
Thank you for your answer. As things stand currently, you can't do that using logback except by modifying the class path. As in
java -cp ../resources1/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar java -cp ../resources2/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar java -cp ../resources3/;otherClasspathEntries -jar mytool.jar
In addition, you would need to place customN.xml in resourceN/logback.xml, where N is in {1, 2, 3}.
Would that work for you?
thebugslayer wrote:
Hi Ceki,
This feature was in log4j, and it allow me to publish tool that allow end user do this:
java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom1.xml -jar mytool.jar java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom2.xml -jar mytool.jar java -Dlog4jconfiguration=custom3.xml -jar mytool.jar
how would I do this in logback? -Z
On 10/13/07, Ceki Gulcu <ceki@qos.ch> wrote:
Hello,
No, it is not currently possible to specify the name of the configuration file through a system property. Could you please describe your use case?
Cheers,
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