Re: [Quickfixj-users] Unable to route quickfixj.events to log via Log4j (over SLF4J)

[Christoph J. <chr...@ma...>]

OK, good news. Just wanted to make sure since there were some minor changes to the SLF4JLog class in 
the last release.

I might find some time next week to set up a little test.

Chris.

On 31/08/18 10:25, Xiau Wei Toon wrote:
> Reverted to 2.0.0, does not work. In fact, we absolutely must use 2.1 since we rely on the new 
> rawString method.
>
> If you were the one implementing, how would you do it? The requirement is simple. I want to route 
> all event messages regardless of session into a daily rolling file using Log4j.
>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, 4:11 pm Christoph John, <chr...@ma... 
> <mailto:chr...@ma...>> wrote:
>
>     Hmm, OK.
>     Just to rule outany regression error: could you please test with version 2.0.0?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Chris.
>
>
>     On 31/08/18 10:06, Xiau Wei Toon wrote:
>>     Indeed that is correct. The logfile is created but permanently empty. I have:
>>     1. Removed all the default slf4j configuration from session settings
>>     2. Added appender for log4j.logger.quickfixj.errorEvent
>>
>>     Files are created, but empty. I redirect all the screen logs from java execute line to a
>>     dumpfile and I can see all quickfixj events and msg logs generated without any WARN or ERROR.
>>     Turning on additivity will not make a copy in system_debug.log as well. Version2.1 is the one
>>     used.
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, 3:31 pm Christoph John, <chr...@ma...
>>     <mailto:chr...@ma...>> wrote:
>>
>>         So you are saying the file ./logs/quickfix.log gets created but with no content? No
>>         messages and no events?
>>         The SLF4J settings you are passing are the default ones as far as I can see. What happens
>>         if you omit them?
>>         I have just seen there is an undocumented setting SLF4JLogErrorEventCategory which
>>         defaults to "quickfixj.errorEvent". What happens if you add that to your settings?
>>
>>         IMHO it can only be a minor config error since this feature is used by many people. Which
>>         QFJ version are you using BTW?
>>
>>         Chris.
>>
>>         On 31/08/18 08:59, ToonXW wrote:
>>>         QuickFIX/J Documentation:http://www.quickfixj.org/documentation/
>>>         QuickFIX/J Support:http://www.quickfixj.org/support/
>>>
>>>
>>>         I have been trying to route all event logs to one daily rolling log file,
>>>         however it is unclear what is going wrong. I verified that quickfixj picked
>>>         up the log4j.properties file (by forcing an exception) and also confirmed
>>>         that the target log file was created post startup. Please advise.
>>>
>>>         *SessionSettings:*
>>>         SLF4JLogEventCategory=quickfixj.event
>>>         SLF4JLogIncomingMessageCategory=quickfixj.incoming
>>>         SLF4JLogOutgoingMessageCategory=quickfixj.outgoing
>>>         SLF4JLogPrependSessionID=Y
>>>         SLF4JLogHeartbeats=Y
>>>
>>>         *When building ThreadedSocketInitiator:*
>>>         LogFactory logFactory = new SLF4JLogFactory(sessionSettings);
>>>
>>>         *log4j.properties:*
>>>         # Root logger option
>>>         log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, core
>>>         # Write to log files, support date rolling.
>>>         log4j.appender.core=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
>>>         log4j.appender.core.Append=true
>>>         log4j.appender.core.File=./logs/system_debug.log
>>>         log4j.appender.core.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>>>         log4j.appender.core.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>>>         log4j.appender.core.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}
>>>         %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
>>>         # Quickfixj appender(s): quickfixj.event / quickfixj.incoming /
>>>         quickfixj.outgoing
>>>         log4j.logger.quickfixj.event=DEBUG, quickfixEvents
>>>         log4j.additivity.quickfixj.event=false;
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents.Append=true
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents.File=./logs/quickfix.log
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
>>>         log4j.appender.quickfixEvents.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd
>>>         HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
>>>
>
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