Unexpected logger ancestor

[tom ONeill <be...@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am using log4j 1.2.8 which I have congifured using the XML configuration. 
I have defined four category entires in my log file and I have now 
encountered some unexpected (for me at least) behaviour.

The loggers are configured as follows:

<category name="X" >
   <priority value="debug" />
</category>

<category name="Y" >
   <priority value="debug" />
</category>

<category name="X.Z" >
   <priority value="debug" />
</category>

<category name="Y.Z" >
   <priority value="debug" />
</category>

<root>
   <priority value="INFO"/>
   <appender-ref ref="MyFile"/>
</root>


I have turned the log4j debug output on and it seems that the X and Y  and 
X.Z categories are being created correctly. However according to the debug 
output the Y.Z logger is not being created as Y.Z but as X.Y.Z.

I can only guess that because X is defined as the parent logger of Z in 
Category X.Z that log4j is automatically expanding the Y.Z to X.Z because it 
already thinks that X is an ancestor of X.

Is this the way log4j works and if so why? Can I not define my loggers using 
the names I have defined above?

Tom

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Re: Unexpected logger ancestor

[Ceki Gülcü <ce...@qos.ch>]

Tom,

Have you made any attempt to read the documentation?

At 11:56 AM 12/1/2003 +0000, tom ONeill wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am using log4j 1.2.8 which I have congifured using the XML 
>configuration. I have defined four category entires in my log file and I 
>have now encountered some unexpected (for me at least) behaviour.
>
>The loggers are configured as follows:
>
><category name="X" >
>   <priority value="debug" />
></category>
>
><category name="Y" >
>   <priority value="debug" />
></category>

[cut]


>Tom

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