Question

I am using logback for logging and have no logger set, just root logger:

<root>
    <level value="ALL" />
    <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
</root>

In class it looks like this:

Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(foo.bar.MyClass.class); // foo.bar is package definition

Can future developers block my logging by defining rules for my packages, like this:

<logger name="foo.bar" level="OFF" />

Or, I must define my logger in class like this:

Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger("MyCoolLogger");

And people can disable it thanks to given name:

<logger name="MyCoolLogger" level="OFF" />

Answer 1

Yes.

Logback loggers inherit settigns from their parent loggers, so foo.bar.MyClass will inherit settings from foo.bar