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

Direct Known Subclasses:

DailyRollingWithMaxDateFileAppender

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

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ContainerAwareRollingFileAppender()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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, shouldFlush, 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.