At my work, I have inherited of the maintenance of a satandalone application.
The following code configures Log4J but no messages can be seen on the console.
LogManager.resetConfiguration();
PatternLayout layout = new PatternLayout();
layout.setConversionPattern("RECORD-BACKEND / (%-5p) %m (%F:%L)%n");
ConsoleAppender stderr = new ConsoleAppender();
stderr.setTarget(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_ERR);
stderr.setLayout(layout);
stderr.addFilter(new CurrentThreadLogFilter());
stderr.setThreshold(Level.INFO);
stderr.activateOptions();
Logger loggerRECORD = getLoggerRECORD();
loggerRECORD.setAdditivity(false);
loggerRECORD.addAppender(stderr);
Logger root = Logger.getRootLogger();
root.setLevel(Level.WARN);
root.addAppender(stderr);
// some lines forward ...
loggerRECORD.info("Process starting...");
What am I missing ?
Thanks to AlexR, here how I solved my problem:
LogManager.resetConfiguration();
PatternLayout layout = new PatternLayout();
layout.setConversionPattern("RECORD-BACKEND / (%-5p) %m (%F:%L)%n");
ConsoleAppender stderr = new ConsoleAppender();
stderr.setTarget(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_ERR);
stderr.setLayout(layout);
stderr.addFilter(new CurrentThreadLogFilter());
stderr.setThreshold(Level.INFO);
stderr.activateOptions();
Logger loggerRECORD = getLoggerRECORD();
loggerRECORD.setLevel( /* get Log Level from env. */ );
loggerRECORD.setAdditivity(false);
loggerRECORD.addAppender(stderr);
Logger root = Logger.getRootLogger();
root.setLevel(Level.WARN);
root.addAppender(stderr);
// some lines forward ...
loggerRECORD.info("Process starting...");
Since additivity is set to false for loggerRECORD
, the appender sucessfully print any message from INFO to ERROR.