On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote:
> If your examples included loggers I think it would show these added > verbose entries would be another logger at INFO but not a separate severity. > > I think of levels in terms of relative numeric severity. DEBUG < INFO > <WARN <ERROR etc. Chainsaw supports this kind of logic in filtering > colorizing and searching for events. > > Where would verbose go? I would put it below DEBUG myself. > I should not have proposed a name for this level since 'verbose' means different things to different people. As I stated in my original message, this new level would be between INFO and DEBUG. Gary > Btw this advice to use another logger in most cases doesn't mean there > aren't cases where additional levels aren't useful. > > Just something to think about. > > Scott > On Oct 7, 2013 7:30 PM, "Gary Gregory" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> I've just come across the need for distinguishing log entries somewhat >> between what INFO and DEBUG provide. >> >> I think of the DEBUG level as a watermark where data is provided for >> developers and support to do deep debugging. INFO is for users. But I see >> the need now for providing an easy way to give user more information (hence >> VERBOSE or another word) which is not at the DEBUG level of detail. >> >> Ideally, I'd like this in INFO mode: >> >> INFO Reading configuration >> INFO Running server >> >> Then in a new VERBOSE mode: >> >> INFO Reading configuration >> VERBOSE Reading accounts >> VERBOSE Reading this config data >> VERBOSE Reading that config data >> VERBOSE Reading other config data >> INFO Running server >> >> The in DEBUG mode, you'd get all the things that are real debug >> information like >> >> DEBUG Configuration location was not provided on the command line. >> DEBUG Searching classpath for configuration: cp entries >> DEBUG Searching user home for configuration: c:\users\... >> DEBUG Found configuration at location xzy, last modified date: ... >> INFO Reading configuration >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second >> Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
