[jira] [Resolved] (HADOOP-9864) Adopt SLF4Js over commons-logging

["Andras Bokor (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9864?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andras Bokor resolved HADOOP-9864.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

Adopting SLF4J is in progress (or maybe ready?) and it seems the adopting process is not tracked here. This one can be closed.

> Adopt SLF4Js over commons-logging
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-9864
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9864
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0-alpha1
>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>            Priority: Major
>
> This is fairly major, but it's something to raise. Commons-logging is used as frozen front end to log4j with a pre-java5-varargs syntax, forcing us to wrap every log event with an {{if (log.isDebugEnabled()}} clause.
> SLF4J
> # is the new de-facto standard Java logging API
> # does use varags for on-demand stringification {{log.info("routing to {}
> , host)}}
> # bridges to Log4J
> # hooks up direct to logback, which has a reputation for speed through less lock contention
> # still supports the same {{isDebugEnabled()}} probes, so commons-logging based classes could switch to SLF4J merely by changing the type of the {{LOG}} class.
> Hadoop already depends on SLF4J for jetty support, hadoop-auth uses it directly.
> This JIRA merely proposes making a decision on whether to adopt SL4J -and if so, how to roll it out.
> The least-disruptive roll-out strategy would be to mandate it on new modules, then switch module-by-module in the existing code.
> We'd also need to find all those tests that dig down to log4j directly, and make sure that they can migrate to the new APIs.



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