Question

In my application I read in an inputfile (e.g. myFile1.txt) and create an outputfile with the same name (e.g. myFile2log). Point is that the inputfile will be read within the java application and not given as command line parameter. Therefore it is required to set an appender in the application, e.g.

public class Example {
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(Example.class);

public Example() throws IOException {
    FileAppender appender = new DailyRollingFileAppender(new PatternLayout(
            PatternLayout.DEFAULT_CONVERSION_PATTERN), "yourfilename.log",
            "'.'yyyy-MM-dd");
    LOG.addAppender(appender);
    LOG.setLevel((Level) Level.DEBUG);
    LOG.debug("blabla");

    new RandomClass();
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    new Example();
}
}

public class RandomClass {
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(RandomClass.class);

public RandomClass() {
    LOG.debug("hello Randomclass");
}
}

And here is the problem: if I do the above the custom file appender only works for the specific class where the fileappender was defined, but not on any other class. Therefore the output of the “RandomClass” will not be written into this logfile, but which is what is required. How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

If you would like to set the appender dynamically you should try setting the new appender to the root logger:

Logger logger = Logger.getRootLogger();
FileAppender appender = new DailyRollingFileAppender(new PatternLayout(
   PatternLayout.DEFAULT_CONVERSION_PATTERN), "yourfilename.log", "'.'yyyy-MM-dd");
logger.addAppender(appender)