com.endeca.portal.util
Class ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton
      org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender
          org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
              org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
                  com.endeca.portal.util.ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.apache.log4j.Appender, org.apache.log4j.spi.OptionHandler

public class ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender
extends org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

A custom log4j Appender that automatically prepends either Tomcat's or WebSphere's root log directory to the specified log filename. This allows a single log4j configuration file to use sane defaults out of the box for both containers.

Author:

Endeca Technologies, Inc.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

maxBackupIndex, maxFileSize

Fields inherited from class org.apache.log4j.FileAppender

bufferedIO, bufferSize, fileAppend, fileName

Fields inherited from class org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender

encoding, immediateFlush, qw

Fields inherited from class org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton

closed, errorHandler, headFilter, layout, name, tailFilter, threshold

Constructor Summary

ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDefaultLogDirectory() Determines the default directory to use for logfiles.
void	setFile(java.lang.String file)

Methods inherited from class org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

getMaxBackupIndex, getMaximumFileSize, rollOver, setFile, setMaxBackupIndex, setMaxFileSize, setMaximumFileSize, setQWForFiles, subAppend

Methods inherited from class org.apache.log4j.FileAppender

activateOptions, closeFile, getAppend, getBufferedIO, getBufferSize, getFile, reset, setAppend, setBufferedIO, setBufferSize

Methods inherited from class org.apache.log4j.WriterAppender

append, checkEntryConditions, close, closeWriter, createWriter, getEncoding, getImmediateFlush, requiresLayout, setEncoding, setErrorHandler, setImmediateFlush, setWriter, writeFooter, writeHeader

Methods inherited from class org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton

addFilter, clearFilters, doAppend, finalize, getErrorHandler, getFilter, getFirstFilter, getLayout, getName, getThreshold, isAsSevereAsThreshold, setLayout, setName, setThreshold

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender

public ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender()

Method Detail

setFile

public void setFile(java.lang.String file)

Overrides:

setFile in class org.apache.log4j.FileAppender

getDefaultLogDirectory

public java.lang.String getDefaultLogDirectory()

Determines the default directory to use for logfiles. Returns the name of that directory as a string.

Returns:

the default logging directory.