Hi,

Need some pointers regarding the following:

Requirement:

For logging, user configures following parameters from Application (UI):

Log Level

File Size

Number Of Log Files

Time Zone

Above mentioned parameters needs to be programmatically set to logback.xml using ch.qos.logback API's.

We tried to implement in the following way but there seems to be some missing link, please suggest how to achieve the above mentioned requirement.

Do we need to link the policy with File Appender ?

For Log Level:

Logger logger = (Logger)LoggerFactory.getLogger("<package>");
logger.setLevel(<User defined log level>);

For File size:

LoggerTriggeringPolicy triggerPolicy = new LoggerTriggeringPolicy();

triggerPolicy.setMaxFileSize(<User defined file size>);

public class LoggerTriggeringPolicy extends SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy {

@Override

public void setMaxFileSize(String maxFileSize) {

super.setMaxFileSize(maxFileSize);

}

}

For Number Of Log Files:

LoggerRollingPolicy rollingPolicy = new LoggerRollingPolicy();

rollingPolicy.setMaxIndex(<User defined number of files>);

public class LoggerRollingPolicy extends FixedWindowRollingPolicy {

@Override

public void setMaxIndex(int maxIndex) {

super.setMaxIndex(maxIndex);

}

}

For Time Zone:

LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();

ContextInitializer ci = new ContextInitializer(lc);

lc.reset(); //This will pick Time Zone from the host JVM

ci.autoConfig();

logback.xml

<configuration>

       <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">

              <!-- encoders are by default assigned the type ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder -->

              <encoder>

                     <pattern>%d [%thread] %-5level %class{0} %msg%n</pattern>

              </encoder>

       </appender>

       <appender name="FILE"

              class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">

              <file>C:/test.log</file>

              <rollingPolicy class="com.cisco.vnmc.hcloud.cpm.util.LoggerRollingPolicy">              

                     <fileNamePattern>C:/test.%i.log</fileNamePattern>                   

                     <minIndex>1</minIndex>

              </rollingPolicy>

              <triggeringPolicy class="com.cisco.vnmc.hcloud.cpm.util.LoggerTriggeringPolicy">

              </triggeringPolicy>

              <encoder>

                     <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %class{0} %msg%n</pattern>

              </encoder>

       </appender>

       <root level="DEBUG">

              <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />

              <appender-ref ref="FILE" />

       </root>

</configuration>

Thanks,

Kriti