Re: [log4perl-devel] Bugs in Log::Log4perl::JavaMap

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

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Withers John Z wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification.  I was able to use
> Log4perl::Appender::Screen directly.  However, my original thinking was
> that the logging properties would be shared between Java programs and
> PERL scripts.  It appeared that the Log4J configuration was necessary to
> make this work.  I could always defined the PERL logger using
> log4per.appender.APPLOG and the Java logger using log4j.appender.APPLOG,
> but this give me two (2) sets of nearly identical properties to
> maintain.

If you have both Java and Perl programs and you want them to share
a common log4perl/j configuration, that's definitely the way to go.

In this case, however, you need to add Log::Dispatch from CPAN.

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
m...@pe...

>
> John
>
> John Withers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schilli [mailto:m...@pe...]
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:46 AM
> To: Withers John Z
> Cc: log...@li...
> Subject: Re: [log4perl-devel] Bugs in Log::Log4perl::JavaMap
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Withers John Z wrote:
>
> > I've encountered what appear to be bugs in Log::Log4perl::JavaMap/*
> > (version 1.09).
> >
> > When the property file includes:
> >
> > log4j.appender.APPLOG = or.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
> >
> > My PERL script fails because Log/Dispatch/Screen.pm can't be located.
> > It isn't included with the distribution.  It appears that
> > Log::Log4perl::JavaMap::ConsoleAppender.pm (and others) maps the
> > property value to the wrong class.
> > Log::Log4perl::JavaMap::ConsoleAppender->new tries to map to
> > Log::Dispatch::Screen when it probably should map to
> > Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen.
>
> Hi John,
>
> the JavaMap ConsoleAppender dates back to the days when Log4perl didn't
> have its own screen appender, so it uses Log::Dispatch::Screen. It
> doesn't come with the Log4perl distribution, but it can be downloaded
> from CPAN:
>
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Log-Dispatch-2.16/lib/Log/Dispatch.pm
>
> Of course, you could just use Log::Log4perl::Appender::Screen directly,
> any particular reason why you're using the JavaMap? Not that there's
> anything wrong with it, I'm just curious.
>
> -- Mike
>
> Mike Schilli
> m...@pe...
>