[log4perl-devel] Is there any "NULL" appender?

[Steven L. <le...@wr...>]

Goal: have a logger with no appenders normally used for
trace-level output that would swamp the system:

    my $hugely_verbose_logger = L::L4p->get_logger
    (
        'VERBOSE::' . __PACKAGE__
    );

    ...

    $huggely_verbose_logger->trace( ... );

Our config's are in a static configuration, so I need
to find some way of specifying:

    log4perl.appender.VERBOSE = # i.e., nada, no appenders by default


Looking through all of the appenders, I cannot
find a "no-op" (vs. one that has the overhead of
formatting the data and then dumping it into
/dev/null after putting in the effort to format
the data). I also cannot seem to specify any
collection of values for appender that override
the root definition of screen.

Q: Is there any way to create a logger whose root
   has an appender for, say, the screen but whose
   "log4per.appender.VERBOSE = <whatever>" entry
   fully overrides this with no appenders at all?

thanx

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