Slf4j is a no brainer to me.  Let’s do it.

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:31 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote:

> The point here is that the current logging implementation provides a simple
> way to associate codes with each user-facing log message and exception.
> This is helpful to those who may want to monitor logs for certain codes
> (e.g. for alerting purposes), filter some codes out, etc. In this way the
> logging is part of a contract with the users much like an API is a contract
> with developers. The codes stay consistent across versions but the content
> of the message may change (e.g. to provide more information, correct
> spelling errors, typos, etc.). This kind of facade also opens the door for
> fairly simple internationalization.
>
> The goals here as I see them:
>  - Maintain the aforementioned functionality.
>  - Ditch the dependence on JBoss Log Manager and JBoss Logging.
>
> Having a simple implementation of our own is an easy way to do this. If we
> decide to go this route then (and only then) we will need to decide on the
> underlying logging facade and implementation.
>
>
> Justin
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 3:17 PM Christopher Shannon <
> christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Using SL4J makes sense to me as that is what almost everyone else uses so
> > it's pretty standard and easy to swap implementations
> >
> > On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 1:26 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I think this looks great, Clebert. The code is straightforward, and I
> > like
> > > the idea of reducing our dependencies.
> > >
> > > This is a +1 from me.
> > >
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 3:43 PM Clebert Suconic <
> > clebert.suco...@gmail.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > For a while, I thought it would be nice to remove jboss-logging from
> > > > artemis and use a generic logger. (SLF4J, Log4j, commons.. whatever..
> > > > it's all orthogonal and transparent to this discussion, we can decide
> > > > that at a later point).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > One of the issues we had while making the move would be the generated
> > > > error codes out of the Log Processor.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So, I put together a prototype here that would generate code based on
> > > > an interface and that could use whatever logger we choose. I will try
> > > > to never remove the branch for future reference:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/clebertsuconic/activemq-artemis/tree/prototype-log-processor
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > the Log processor would read the annotations and generate the code:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/clebertsuconic/activemq-artemis/blob/prototype-log-processor/artemis-log-processor/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/logprocessor/processor/LogProcessor.java
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > A testcase here would show how such processing would work:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/clebertsuconic/activemq-artemis/blob/prototype-log-processor/artemis-log-processor/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/i18n/test/SimpleBundleTest.java
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have added some code on the artemis-server, trying to simulate what
> > > > we would do in "real life":
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/clebertsuconic/activemq-artemis/blob/prototype-log-processor/artemis-server/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/server/ActiveMQServerNewLogger.java
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This test here is making a call to the NewLogger, just to show how
> > > > processing would work. Everything would work just like it would now:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/clebertsuconic/activemq-artemis/blob/prototype-log-processor/artemis-server/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/TestSample.java
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I would appreciate some feedback if this is a good way forward or
> > not...
> > > >
> > > > (please let's not diverge on what logging framework we are choosing
> > > > now... that's a separate discussion).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Clebert Suconic
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
-- 
Clebert Suconic

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