Re: [log4perl-devel] appender initialisation issue

[Roger D. <rog...@gl...>]

At 16/06/2006 17:31:45, Mike Schilli <m...@pe...> wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> My logging situation is complex - the pseudo-code looks like this:
>>
>> <initialise main log>
>> log to main log
>> :                 :
>> for 1 to n of builds
>>       log to main log
>>       :                :
>>        <swap for local log for building component>
>>       log to local log
>>       :               :
>>       <swap to main log>
>>       log to main log
>>       :              :
>>
>> so I'm swapping appenders every so often, which is why I didn't use
>> Log::Log4perl->init. In fact, I destroy the previous local-log 
appender.
>
>It's not exactly a common thing to do in Log4perl, but you can certainly
>do it :). I'd rather use a buffer appender for this purpose, though,
>and I would just check the buffer every so often and write its content
>to the appropriate file. This way, you put the logic out of Log4perl
>and into your application, where it probably belongs in the first place.
>But YMMV, of course.

OK, I agree with the buffer appender but swapping the appenders seems to 
be working quite nicely now and I don't really want to re-work this SOB 
piece of code as it's up for replace RSN :-)

>> Or maybe I could us Log::Log4perl->init every time?
>
>init() is usually only called once at the start of the program.

Just checking.

Cool software BTW.

Cheers

Roger