Ho about creating a Logger in ThreadLocal with a unique name that is based
on the thread name?
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Kaspar Fischer <fisch...@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a way to create a log file per thread (actually, per
> Quartz job that gets run).
>
> I've googled quite a bit and found a few approaches, in particular
> KeyFileAppender [1]. All I have seen seem to rely on the MDC and
> KeyFileAppender seems to have a resource leak [2].
>
> I am wondering whether there is a simply way to programmatically create, at
> the beginning of my thread, a logger with a given name and closing it at the
> end of the thread. Has anybody accomplished something like this?
>
> public void run()
> {
> String id = ...; // thread name or whatever
> Logger logger = ...; // Create a logger with a basename and the id
> try
> {
> // ...
> }
> finally
> {
> logger.close(); // Something like this is needed to make sure
> // old logs do not keep hanging around
> }
> }
>
> Many thanks,
> Kaspar
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19597
> [2]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/log4j-user@logging.apache.org/msg07295.html
>
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