The original design was to have the status logger capture messages in a ring buffer. Then when a listener became available it could print the queued messages. I know it has been tweaked recently so I am not 100% sure if it is still working that way, but that is why it is a bit more complicated than you might expect.
Ralph On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Marco Cosentino <cosentino...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get log4j 2.0 debug information printed out in the console but > I couldn't manage to get them. > In log4j 1.x you would set the system property "log4j.debug". > > I thought that the mechanism was similar in log4j 2.x and apparently it > should be by setting > log4j2.StatusLogger.level=DEBUG > > Still nothing, so I dug a little bit in the code and found that the > StatusLogger logs its messages either to the listeners (if there's at least > one) or to a SimpleLogger (logger) which is initialized in the constructor > (method StatusLogger#logMessage()). > > I found that there was a JMX listener registered so I disabled JMX beans with > log4j2.disable.jmx=true > but still no luck: the messages don't appear in the console. > > I noticed though that the constructor might be the source of the problem: > > private StatusLogger() { > this.logger = new SimpleLogger("StatusLogger", Level.ERROR, false, > true, false, false, Strings.EMPTY, null, PROPS, > System.err); > this.listenersLevel = Level.toLevel(DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL, > Level.WARN).intLevel(); > } > > The SimpleLogger is initialized using level ERROR therefore the isEnabled > implementation in StatusLogger returns the logging level of this.logger which > is always ERROR even if I wanted DEBUG. > > Would it make sense to use DEFAULT_STATUS_LEVEL to actually set the level > into the SimpleLogger constructor? > Why is it so hard to get debug messages showing up in the console (I mean > disable JMX and set the property to DEBUG)? > > Best, > Marco Cosentino > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org