Hi Fred, coming back to your posting, I have some comments/questions - inlined ... On Monday, June 28, 2010 10:08 PM [GMT+1=CET], Fred <phreed@gmail.com> wrote (with possible deletions):
I have been modifying slf4j for use on android. Beginning with the slf4j-android sub-project, I am adding in a context provider to record, forward, combine, filter and otherwise manage the log. In order to do this getLogger needs to know the current context. To work around this I have added a context parameter.
e.g. import android.content.Context; import android.graphics.Matrix; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
public class Sample implements Cloneable {
private Sample(Context context) { _log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Sample.class, context); ...
I can provide more detail if this is not clear. Indeed it is not clear. Could you describe a use case illustrating why this would be required. And maybe other options to achieve the same.
What I want to know is if this is the best way do deal with the problem? Since it is not clear to me what the actual problem is I would first try to understand it.
In order to get this to work I have added some android specific stuff to the api/contract. The presumption seems to be that certain information is in some global variable. This doesn't seem quite right. What I am wondering is if there shouldn't be some generalization of context for slf4j. This can all be answered if we see the complete picture.
Cheers, Thorsten