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

[Tod H. <th...@gi...>]

Kevin Goess wrote:

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> Tod Harter wrote:
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>> It seems to me that config file parsing ignores a lot of errors. It 
>> would be really nice to be able to have either a logging
>> configuration checker or a 'pedantic' mode that throws an error on 
>> anything non-kosher it sees in the config file. 
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> That's a built-in problem with a properties-style configuration 
> file--the format is open enough where it's hard to put constraints on 
> the file.
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> If you want better configuration error-checking, try the xml-style 
> configuration file. Then you can check it against the DTD before you 
> run it, and that will catch a lot of possible errors.
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Yeah, they're somewhat of a PITA to write, but that would probably be 
more reliable. I suppose I could write a checker that builds an XML conf 
file from a standard one. <digs out reference manuals...>