Chainsaw plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

[Brad Lane <ba...@mchsi.com>]

I want to write a Chainsaw plugin for IDEA but I'm having a hard time 
getting started. I have the log4j source code from CVS but I was hoping 
someone could give me a pointer as to where to start. i.e. - classes to 
initialize Chainsaw, settings dialogs, etc... Any help would be truly 
appreciated.

P.S. - Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question. Please point 
me to the correct place if it is.

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Re: Chainsaw plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

[Paul Smith <ps...@aconex.com>]

HUGE apologies for the delay here. 

 From CVS Head, the key classes are:

org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.LogUI - this is the 'startup' class that 
contains the main(...) method, as well as a static method, 
createChainsawGUI(ApplicationPreferenceModel, Action), that is designed 
so that one could create the UI as needed from within an existing 
application (I'm not sure if anyone is using this or not, but it's 
there).  LogUI, after setting up Receivers defined via configuration 
file if configured to do so, during initialisation sets up 
ChainsawAppenderHandler which is _exactly_ like an appender.  It sit's 
as an appender to the log4j 'bus' and then buffers them, and 
periodically dispatches them to registered EventBatchListener's, one of 
which is an inner-class of LogUI, NewTabEventBatchReceiver. 
NewTabEventBatchReceiver then uses an identifier to determine which 
LogPanel the event should be routed to.  It looks up the LogPanel 
instance, and sends the event to that LogPanel's table model.

That's about all I have time for in terms of explaining.  I'm not sure 
what state Chainsaw is in for creating a plugin for IDEA etc, but feel 
free to ask more questions, I will really try harder to reply earlier! :)

cheers,

Paul Smith

Brad Lane wrote:

> I want to write a Chainsaw plugin for IDEA but I'm having a hard time 
> getting started. I have the log4j source code from CVS but I was 
> hoping someone could give me a pointer as to where to start. i.e. - 
> classes to initialize Chainsaw, settings dialogs, etc... Any help 
> would be truly appreciated.
>
> P.S. - Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this question. Please 
> point me to the correct place if it is.
>

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