RFE: PatternLayout to strip initial components of category/comment

[Ken Arnold <ar...@moonhill.org>]

I can't find this suggestion in the archives, but maybe I'm just dense 
(these are possibly unrelated statements.-)

PatternLayout allows a format of the form %c{2} to show only the last 
two components of the category name.  Usually for me, it is the initial 
number of components to delete that I know: if I'm logging stuff for 
com.acme, removing "com.acme" I can fairly easily recognize subpackages, 
as in "util" being a short-hand for com.acme.util.  But I don't know in 
advance how deep the subpackage nesting goes: %c{1} would work here, but 
then fail for "com.acme.analysis.util".

So I would like to see something that lets me strip off a certain number 
of initial components.  For example, %c{-2} to strip off the initial two 
components.  Or be able to strip off particular class components, as in 
%c{-com.acme,-java.lang} to strip off com.acme and java.lang from 
components, but leave other category names alone.

(Of course all this goes for %C as well.)

		Ken Arnold


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RE: PatternLayout to strip initial components of category/comment

[peter riegersperger <ri...@subnet.at>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Arnold [mailto:arnold@moonhill.org]
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> So I would like to see something that lets me strip off a certain
> number  of initial components.  For example, %c{-2} to strip off
> the initial two  components.

i second that request. such a feature would be very, very welcome!

rick


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