Question of inheritance

[Christophe Marcourt <ch...@mondeca.com>]

Hi,

Suppose I have a logger called foo with a OFF level, and another logger
called foo.bar with a DEBUG level, the definition in XML file will be :

    <logger name="foo">
        <level value="OFF"></level>
        <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
    </logger>
    <logger name="foo.bar">
        <level value="DEBUG"></level>
        <appender-ref ref="file"/>
    </logger>

Am I right ? I think so.
Now how works the inheritance ?

If in my java code I invoke the info method on my logger foo.bar :
Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(“foo.bar”);
Logger.info(“a sample”);

I normally have a trace in my file (see : <appender-ref ref="file"/>) but I
also have a trace on my console (see : <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>).
Why ?
I thought that as info > debug so I trace in my foo.bar logger but info <
off so I should not have a trace.

Ideas ?


Christophe Marcourt
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