On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:42 AM Sagara Gunathunga < sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Although this makes the life easier by eliminating the log4j.properties > modifications, still, one has to restart the server to see debug logs. It > would have been great to have a simple remote API to make these changes on > a running server. > Agreed. Having to restart could be problematic, especially in production environment. I will check how we can improve this further as the next step. Also, log4j.properties modification actually prints logs related to implementation of log-mediator along with synapse user log-mediator output. Provided fix eliminates these additional logs. > > BTW this is a useful improvement; but, you need to think about a better > name than "synapseDebug" to reflect the purpose of this setting. To me, > synapseDebug implies that the whole server will be in debug mode and can be > connected through an IDE. What about more descriptive and generic name > like this *-synapse.mediator.log.level.debug* that can be used to > change the log of the level of log mediator without limiting to debug > only? > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:06 PM shafreen anfar <anfar.shafr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am Shafreen and I've been working with Synapse for many years. With >> this mail I am sending a fix [1] to solve one of the issues I've been >> facing. >> >> At the moment, even though log-mediator has a category called DEBUG, >> there is no way to enable this category. Therefore, no logs are printed >> under this category. The only workaround we have for this problem is to >> enable debug logs for log-mediator class itself by configuring >> log4j.properties file. But I believe, this configuration is for people who >> implement log-mediator but not for synapse users. >> >> IMO, synapse users should be able to enable debug mode of the >> log-mediator without touching the log4j.properties file. As a solution, I >> have done a fix [1] in which synapse users can start the server as follows, >> >> sh synapse.sh -synapseDebug >> >> When the server is started with the above flag, all the logs of >> log-mediator under the category DEBUG is printed. For more information, >> please have a look at [1] and [2]. Also, please note that the provided fix >> is tested in both linux and windows. >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/synapse/pull/24 >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-1116 >> >> > > -- > Sagara Gunathunga > > Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com > Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/ > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara >
