Can custom appender override the log4j.xml configuration

[Aneez Backer]

Hi

I am writing a custom JDBC appender for log4j for my application. I want 
this custom appender NOT to be affected in any way by the loggign levels / 
appenders in the application log4j.xml file.

The custom Logger instance has only the one appender (the custom JDBC 
appender which I wrote). It has no console appender etc. But, when logging 
happens, log statements get printed on the server console and also in the 
application log files. I should mention that the application log4j.xml file 
does have the console and file appender.

I initialise the Logger instance as follows:



   Logger customLogger = Logger.getLogger("myCustomLogger");

   / / remove all appenders associated with customLogger
   customLogger.removeAllAppenders();

   // add JDBCAppenderService to customLogger
   customLogger .addAppender(new JDBCAppenderService(ds));  //ds is the 
datasource name

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Now, I use customLogger to log the information as follows:


customLogger.info(logObject)  //logObject contains the data to be logged
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I want customLogger to remained unaffected by the settings in the log4j.xml 
file. So, if the logging level in log4j.xml is set to OFF, I still want the 
JDBC appneder to work i.e log data in the database.

Please let me know if there any way to achieve this ?? Or does the log4j.xml 
configuration overrides the settings in the class files ??

Thanks and Regards,

Aneez Backer


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