RE: wrapper for Log4j for method entrance/exit?

[Ceki Gülcü <cg...@qos.ch>]

At 11:54 22.03.2001 -0500, John wrote:
>Ceki, 
>So far as I've seen (aside from AspectJ, which I shied away from because of
>the precompiler "voodoo" nature) there is not any *totally* non intrusive
>way.  
>
>If you do not have the luxory of a factory that you can do the constructor
>interception at, you can do a search and replace style thingie where you:
>
>Replace:        "= new " + * + ");"
>with:           "= new DebugProxy.for( " + * + ") );"
>
>So:             FooBarClass fb = new FooBarClass(myargs);
>Becomes:        FooBarClass fb = DebugProxy.for( new FooBarClass(myargs) );
>
>And the DebugProxy class is a static class whose .for() method accepts an
>object, wraps it in a Proxy and then returns it. (typically only wrapping it
>if a debug flag is set.)
>
>Unfortunatly this uglifies your code a bit, but if you do not have a
>factory...  You can tweak the DebugProxy.for method to only wrap certain
>classes, etc.
>
>In a way I'd like to see something like this added to log4j's varia package.
>I mean it *is* kinda neat (and useful too!)

John,

OK. So why don't you scratch that itch? I will gladly add your contribution to the log4j distrib. Ceki



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