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Paul Benedict edited comment on LOG4J2-86 at 9/19/12 2:53 AM:
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I am very concerned this will lead to unexpected behavior when upgrading. The
single-arg method info(Object o) is meant to print the toString() method of the
object; the method info(Object, Throwable) is meant to print toString() and a
stack trace. People who are already passing a Throwable to info(Object o) know
they will only get the exception's message, but the new overloaded version will
now silently take precedence at compile time and give them a stack trace too.
was (Author: paul4christ79):
I am very concerned this will lead to unexpected behavior when upgrading.
The single-arg method info(Object o) is meant to print the toString() method of
the object; the method info(String, Throwable) is meant to print a message and
a stack trace. People who are already passing a Throwable to info(Object o)
know they will only get a message, but the new overloaded version will now
silently take precedence at compile time and give them a stack trace.
> Provide a logging methods with only a Throwable object as parameters
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>
> Key: LOG4J2-86
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-86
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: API
> Reporter: Ivan Anev
> Fix For: 2.0-beta1
>
>
> Provide logging methods with only a Throwable object as a single parameter:
> info(Throwable e)
> error(Throwable e)
> ...
> The throwable objects contain a message themself and a stacktrace. So most of
> the times its pointless to log additional message. So in order to log them
> now you have to log an empty message and the throwable object:
> logger.error("", e);
> Which is obviously ugly and pointless when there is no reason not to have
> method like:
> logger.error(e);
> that should log both the message and the stacktrace.
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