Re: [log4perl-devel] Log levels don't work with categories

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

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Tod Harter wrote:

> OK, basically what I have is mod_perl handlers, so its a bit tough to
> call it a 'program', there is
> no main application.

That's fine.

> The behaviour I get with the test is exactly consistent with my
> application. I have 1 appender which I use SYNCER, so everything goes to
> one log file. It appears that if I set up category 'MyTest' to 'DEBUG'
> then even if rootLogger is 'FATAL' I get the messages from MyTest and
> MyTest.detail, which is what I would expect (assuming they are both set
> at level 'DEBUG').

That's what I would expect, too. But are you sure you want to use a sub
category ".detail"? Seems like controlling the output via log levels when
calling the logging functions ($log->debug(...), $log->error(...)) would be
easier.

> But if I set MyTest to 'INFO' I don't even get the
> informational message logged at that category at level INFO!!! And I
> certainly never get level MyTest.detail unless MyTest is at DEBUG.

Your L4p configuration file seems to contain a syntax error:

log4perl MyTest.detail (dot missing)

> It appears that get_logger() ignores its argument and just uses package
> names as categories all the time.

I'd be very surprised if that was true. Here's a test case that works:

    use Log::Log4perl qw(get_logger);

    my $conf = q(
        log4perl.rootLogger               = INFO,  Screen
        log4perl.category.Bar             = DEBUG, Screen
        log4perl.category.Bar.Twix        = DEBUG, Screen
        log4perl.appender.Screen          = Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen
        log4perl.appender.Screen.layout   = Log::Log4perl::Layout::SimpleLayout
    );

    Log::Log4perl::init(\$conf);

    my $logger = get_logger("Bar::Twix");
    $logger->debug("Message to Bar::Twix");

    my $barlogger = get_logger("Bar");
    $barlogger->debug("Message to Bar");

Can you provide a simple case like this, confirming what you're suspecting?

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...