Re: [log4perl-devel] init & init_and_watch behave differently

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

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Ford, Andy wrote:

> In the docs, at least one example looks something like
> Log::Log4perl->init($log4perlconfig) or die "Failure reading log
> config";

That's a typo, it'll be corrected in 1.07.

> Which is great, just what you expect.

It works differently, though. Both init() and init_and_watch() will die()
on error.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...

>
> But when I try the same thing with init_and_watch, I get a false return
> from init_and_watch
> ***even when it succeeds***, as demonstrated by the
> Log::Log4perl->initialized() call that follows.
>
> This would not seem to be the desired behavior.
>
> Upgraded my log4perl 1.03 -> 1.06, but still the same.
>
> Andy Ford
> and...@ag...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Schilli [mailto:m...@pe...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:31 PM
> > To: Ford, Andy
> > Cc: log...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [log4perl-devel] init & init_and_watch behave differently
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Ford, Andy wrote:
> >
> > > Looks like init and init_and_watch return differently.
> > > init_and_watch seems to return false even though the log gets
> > > initialized.
> >
> > Both init() and init_and_watch() will throw an exception if they
> > fail initializing Log4perl -- they're not returning a meaningful
> > return code.
> >
> > For your test suite, you might want to check sucess by using eval{}:
> >
> >     eval {
> >         Log::Log4perl->init_and_watch(...);
> >     };
> >
> >     if($@) {
> >         # Error!
> >     } else {
> >         # Success!
> >     }
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
> > Mike Schilli
> > m...@pe...
> >
> > > Here's test program that illustrates.
> > > On my system, (Log4perl 1.03, HP-UX 11, perl 5.8.7), I get
> > >
> > > Failure reading log config /etc/URLbot4.log4perl.conf:  at
> > > /home/forda/Log4perlBug line 6.
> > > well OK
> > > well OK
> > >
> > > #!/usr/local/perl-5.8.7/bin/perl
> > > use warnings;
> > > use strict;
> > > use Log::Log4perl qw(get_logger :levels :no_extra_logdie_message);
> > > my $log4perlconfig = "/etc/URLbot4.log4perl.conf";
> > > Log::Log4perl->init_and_watch($log4perlconfig,'USR2') or
> > warn "Failure
> > > reading log config $log4perlconfig: $!";
> > > if(Log::Log4perl->initialized()) {
> > >         # Yes, Log::Log4perl has already been initialized
> > > print "well OK\n";
> > >     } else {
> > >     die "logs unitialized...: $!";
> > > }
> > > Log::Log4perl->init($log4perlconfig) or warn "Failure
> > reading log config
> > > $log4perlconfig: $!";
> > > if(Log::Log4perl->initialized()) {
> > >         # Yes, Log::Log4perl has already been initialized
> > > print "well OK\n";
> > >     } else {
> > >     die "logs unitialized...: $!";
> > > }
> > >
> > > Andy Ford
> > > EEMS
> > > x56647
> > > and...@ag...
> > >
> > >
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