Re: [log4perl-devel] setting defaults for appenders

[Jonathan S. <sw...@po...>]

> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
>
>> I've got a growing number of log files for different categories  
>> that I
>> would like to all have the same layout and pattern, e.g.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> this is one of the items on my todo-list: To have an inheritance
> mechanism that lets you say something like
>
>    log4perl.appender.file.inherits_from = \
>        log4perl.appender.file_base
>
> and any property you don't specify in 'file' is inherited from
> file_base. It's not in L4p yet, but hopefully soon! ;)
>

That would be great!

In the meantime, I might try to do this myself by creating my own  
Appender subclass:

     # My::Log4perl::Appender::File defaults to my preferred layout  
and layout.ConversionPattern
     log4perl.appender.file1 = My::Log4perl::Appender::File
     log4perl.appender.file2 = My::Log4perl::Appender::File

Do you have a vague idea of how I might approach this? Or is it too  
diffiicult, and I should just suck up the repetition until the  
inheritance feature? :)

Jon