Re: Log4J 2

The 'Rule' interface, RuleFactory and LoggingEventFieldResolver are used to
support expressions..simple stuff, but it works...maybe it's time to throw
this away completely and leverage a third-party API instead?

Rule, RuleFactory
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/companions/extras/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/log4j/rule/

ExpressionFilter:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/companions/extras/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/log4j/filter/

LoggingEventFieldResolver:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/companions/extras/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/log4j/spi/

Scott

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah I don't mind doing that work.   One thing that was a slightly
> significant change to the LoggingEvent implementation in log4j 1.2 - I
> needed to be able to track expression matches, which impacted the API a bit
> (find/colorizing expressions are displayed in the gutter on the right, time
> deltas show up in the gutter on the left)..that allows me to render a
> 'color' for an event without re-running the evaluation expression.
>
> I think that's an implementation detail and doesn't need to be in the
> interface, but that's the one place in Chainsaw where the 'core' logging
> event wasn't sufficient.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:55 AM, ralph.goers @dslextreme.com <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I wouldn't mind getting rid of the implementation behind the current
>>> expression/expressionfilter support (also used in Chainsaw).  Were there
>>> improvements in that area?
>>>
>>> The expression support has some limits which I don't love  - yes, you
>>> can define regexps and use relational and logical operators and grouping,
>>> but I would love to be able to have something like an 'around' operator
>>> that would work off of either of events (ten events around a warning
>>> message), and/or a time-based version (events within +- 1 minute of a
>>> warning message).
>>>
>>>
>> Oh - and I haven't ported chainsaw into Log4j2.  When that happens I
>> expect it will be a new module.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
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