Re: [Webwork-devel] ActionSupport log change - why?

[Matt B. <ma...@sm...>]

innocent mistake. i'll fix that.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cannon-Brookes" <mi...@at...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:00 AM
Subject: [Webwork-devel] ActionSupport log change - why?


> G'day guys - me again ;)
>
> On 22/04 ActionSupport changed the way the category object is created,
from:
>
> (1.26)
> protected transient Category log = Category.getInstance(this.getClass());
>
> to
>
> (1.27)
> protected static transient Category log =
> Category.getInstance(ActionSupport.class);
>
>
> Now I don't really care if the log is static or not (ostensibly why the
> change was made from the commit message!) but why did we change from
> this.getClass() to ActionSupport.class?
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> I hope so! It means that subclasses of ActionSupport now log all their
> messages in the webwork.action.ActionSupport category instead of their own
> category (ie com.atlassian.blah) unless they override log field with their
> own category - which sucks ;)
>
> Looks like an innocent mistake though - or is there a reason for the
change
> I'm not seeing?
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
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