Actually this gives me an idea for a future feature. What if we made it so changing settings while a configureAndWatch is active updated the settings file itself? We could make it an option to configureAndWatch. Anybody else like that idea? Should I open a feature request in Jira?
On Feb 20, 2014, at 9:18 PM, Nandan S <nandan.shantha...@hp.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> i use DOMConfigurator::configureAndWatch(configFile,delay) method to
> check for any configuration changes and reload the configuration. But facing
> the following issue
>
> after calling configurationAndWatch(), i use the
> appender->setFile(logFileNameL); appender->activateOptions(p); to change the
> file name to which the log messages will be appended. Later, if i change
> anything in configFile, configuration file is reloaded and messages will be
> logged to file specified in configuration file where in i want to log
> messages to be logged to logFileNameL set programtically.
>
> Is there anyway the values set in program can be retained after
> reloading the configuration file by configureAndWatch() method.
>
> to make it more specific
> in configuration file
>
>
> in application, i set
> appender->setFile("c:\temp\testApp_logFile.log");
>
> later in configuration file, i change the threshold level, so
> configureAndWatch() method will reload the configuration file and starts
> logging to "c:\temp\logFile.log". wherein i want to continue logging to
> "c:\temp\testApp_logFile.log" with changed logging level.
>
> Is it possible to achieve this ? if yes, do let me know more details.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Nandan
>
>
>
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