Re: [log4perl-devel] setting defaults for appenders

[Mike S. <m...@pe...>]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> 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? :)

Appenders and layouts are different concepts, so I wouldn't put them
into the same class.

I'd probably just use a template enginge like the template toolkit,
define a Log4perl config file in a meta format and have the template
engine expand everything before Log4perl reads in the configuration.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...