All seem to be good ideas. IMHO it would be sufficient to make 'name' referenceable via "tab identifier" (option 2). I'm not too familiar with the codebase, but it already seems to be defined in PluginSkeleton.
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Deboy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:42 PM To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: chainsaw - tab labels for LogFilePatternReceiver There are a few options (maybe more, these are the ones off the top of my head): - We could support truncation in the 'tab identifier' mechanism (using conventions similar to sprintf or patternlayout)... - We could have the receiver add the receiver name as a 'name' event property, similar to how the receiver defines 'application' and 'hostname' properties - We could add 'hostname' and 'application' as bean params (the same as what you're doing now, but without the need to use 'path') Scott -----Original Message----- From: Evans, Jess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:13 AM To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org Subject: chainsaw - tab labels for LogFilePatternReceiver I'm setting up chainsaw to tail log files from several environments. The tab names for these receivers are defaulting to "file - <filepath>". In my case, the path is pretty long and makes the tab name undescriptive. Is there an easy way to override the names for these tabs? I tried to change the "tab identifier" value to PROP.name, but that doesn't seem valid. The only way I've found to date is to make the host and path attributes of the LogFilePatternReceiver class true bean attributes, so that I can set them in my log4j configuration e.g. <plugin name="LogFileReceiver" class="org.apache.log4j.varia.LogFilePatternReceiver"> <param name="host" value="Foo"/> <param name="path" value="Bar"/> ... </plugin> This solution leaves me feeling kind of dirty, like I'm addressing the symptom instead of the cause. Is there some blatantly simple way of labeling these tabs that I'm overlooking? I don't want the tab names dependent upon the content of my log files. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
