VASmalltalk – log4s – new loggers and their appender definitions

One thing to remember if you layout your logging structure with log4s:

-> use one section for each new logger

[zmqlog]
createLogger=(zmqlog)
[zmqstat]
createLogger=(zmqstat)

-> keep in mind, that you can only define ONE appender-definition per appender-key.

Therefore this is allowed:

[zmqlog]
createLogger=(zmqlog)
dailyRollingFileAppender =(LogFileAppender, zmqlog, .\zmqlog.log, true, All, EsPatternLayout, '%m', false, topOfDay )
mskReverseLineAppender=(revMemAppenderLog,zmqlog,Info,EsPatternLayout,'%m',300,500)

and this is not allowed (because one has used two times the key ‘dailyRollingFileAppender’. Actually only the second definition is executed. The first one is lost.

[zmqlog]
createLogger=(zmqlog)
dailyRollingFileAppender =(LogFileAppenderA, zmqlog, .\zmqlog.log, true, All, EsPatternLayout, '%m', false, topOfDay )
dailyRollingFileAppender =(LogFileAppenderB, zmqlog, .\zmqlog-backup.log, true, All, EsPatternLayout, '%m', false, topOfDay )
mskReverseLineAppender=(revMemAppenderLog,zmqlog,Info,EsPatternLayout,'%m',300,500)

If you need the later case – then just add another section in your in-file and add the dailyRollingFileAppender in that section or define a new specific appender with your own definitions.

This is possible:

[zmqlog]
createLogger=(zmqlog)
dailyRollingFileAppender =(LogFileAppenderA, zmqlog, .\zmqlog.log, true, All, EsPatternLayout, '%m', false, topOfDay )
mskReverseLineAppender=(revMemAppenderLog,zmqlog,Info,EsPatternLayout,'%m',300,500)
[zmqlog-helper]
dailyRollingFileAppender =(LogFileAppenderB, zmqlog, .\zmqlog-backup.log, true, All, EsPatternLayout, '%m', false, topOfDay )

and you initialize the stuff via:

#('zmqlog' 'zmqlog-helper') do: [ :eachSectionHeader |
  iniContent := Dictionary new.
  (System iniFileGetContentsArray: eachSectionHeader)
     associationsDo: [:assoc | iniContent add: (Association key: assoc key value: assoc value)].
  EsLogManager singleton mskInitializeFromValues: iniContent.
]

where EsLogManager>>mskInitializeFromValues: is a simple extension to the framework:

mskInitializeFromValues: iniContent
  self checkForNewLogger: iniContent.
  self checkForAsyncAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForTranscriptAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForConsoleAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForFileAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForRollingFileAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForDailyRollingFileAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForSocketAppender: iniContent.
  self checkForFilters: iniContent "check for filters after all the appenders have been created"

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