Wow - almost identical to the Avalon Logger interface.
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:09, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> i think it's important to get a consensus since we might have to stick
> with this interface for some time. this is an attempt to summarize what i
> think came out of the various threads. it should make it easier for anyone
> else who thinks otherwise to make that clear.
>
> 1. no one else (but me) has any great enthusiasm for making log levels
> internal to commons-logging. so we'll lose that idea.
>
> 2. commons-logging should not perform any configuration of the underlying
> logging system. therefore setLevel() should be removed.
>
> 3, getLevel cannot be used reliable for anything more than the basic
> levels (ie. debug, info, warn, error, fatal). the behaviour of
> commons-logging (from a component's point of view) should not depend on
> any feature of the logging system which the user chooses. therefore
> getLevel should be removed and isWarnEnabled, isErrorEnabled and
> isFatalEnabled methods added instead. any implementation which cannot
> reliable determine the log level should return true for each of these
> methods.
>
> - robert
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