Re: [log4perl-devel] Can caller_depth be set per logger

[Martin E. <mar...@ea...>]

Thanks for the reply Kevin.

Kevin M. Goess wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> Have you tried something like this?  It would go in each wrapper method
> in your st.pm and db.pm, at the beginning of the method:
> 
> 	local $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth =
>                    $Log::Log4perl::caller_depth + 2;

I should have said I knew I could do this but a) there are an awful lot 
of methods b) when logging is not enabled each method has the overhead 
of the above statement for nothing.

> It's a package variable, so no, there is no other way to set it per-logger.

Shame.

> There's some discussion of this in the FAQ ("perldoc Log::Log4perl::FAQ").

I haven't yet looked at the code - do you know how difficult it would be 
to make caller_depth per logger?

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
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> Martin J. Evans wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I mailed this question some months ago and did not get any response so I 
>> thought I'd have one last go slightly reworded.
>>
>> I have many different loggers in the same application in the program 
>> itself and various modules. One module is a wrapper class around DBI and 
>> has to set the caller_depth to 2 but caller_depth seems to be global and 
>> hence this affects all other loggers in the same program. Is there any 
>> way to set caller_depth per logger?
>>
>> My precise example was in my post on this list 3-dec-07.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Martin
> 
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