Hi there, im trying to setup loggers programatically and noticed that logback / log4j wont create the empty directory for you using rollingfileappender. Here is what ive had to do to get the parent directory recursively created because i wont be sure what the parent directory of the logger will be until its created. Is there a better way ?

LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) logStats.getLoggerContext();

W3CAccessLayout layout = new W3CAccessLayout();

layout.setContext(lc);

layout.start();

RollingFileAppender<LoggingEvent> appender = new RollingFileAppender<LoggingEvent>();

appender.setContext(lc);

appender.setImmediateFlush(true);

appender.setName(appenderName);

    appender.setLayout(layout);

    

    TimeBasedRollingPolicy policy = new TimeBasedRollingPolicy();

policy.setContext(lc);

policy.setFileNamePattern(path + logFilePattern);

policy.setParent(appender);

policy.setCurrentTime(System.currentTimeMillis());

policy.start();

File file = new File(policy.getNewActiveFileName());

File dir = new File(file.getParent());

dir.mkdirs();

appender.setRollingPolicy(policy);

appender.start();

    logStats.addAppender(appender);