Custom log levels weren’t added to Log4j 2 until version 2.1, so if the version
you are using is older than that it is no surprise that it isn’t working.
Ralph
> On Aug 26, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
>
> While I work on figuring out how to get a newer version of log4j2 installed
> I'm wondering whether there is some additional investigation I can do with
> the version I have. For instance, I was hoping with the level of logging I
> have enabled, that log4j would be indicating some issue it had with the
> custom level. However, I don't see such an issue. The only thing I see is
> an issue with the custom level, which I'm guessing is when I'm using it in
> the filter. I've attached the warning in the log below.
>
> Is there some additional logging I can turn on such that log4j will produce
> more info which might indicate why my custom levels aren't working? Here is
> my current log4j2 configuration.
>
> log4j2.xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Configuration status="trace" verbose="true">
> <CustomLevels>
> <CustomLevel name="INFOM1" intLevel="399"/>
> <CustomLevel name="INFOP1" intLevel="401"/>
> </CustomLevels>
> <Appenders>
> <File name="info" fileName="info.log">
> <PatternLayout>
> <Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
> </PatternLayout>
> <Filters>
> <ThresholdFilter level="INFOM1" onMatch="DENY" onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/>
> <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
> </Filters>
> </File>
> </Appenders>
> <Loggers>
> <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
> <AppenderRef ref="info"/>
> </Logger>
> <Root>
> </Root>
> </Loggers>
> </Configuration>
>
> snippet of console output:
>
> 2015-08-26 14:26:21,070 WARN Error while converting string [INFOM1] to type
> [class org.apache.logging.log4j.Level]. Using default value [null].
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown level constant [INFOM1].
> at org.apache.logging.log4j.Level.valueOf(Level.java:281)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters$LevelConverter.convert(TypeConverters.java:240)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters$LevelConverter.convert(TypeConverters.java:237)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.TypeConverters.convert(TypeConverters.java:343)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.visitors.AbstractPluginVisitor.convert(AbstractPluginVisitor.java:130)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.visitors.PluginAttributeVisitor.visit(PluginAttributeVisitor.java:44)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.generateParameters(PluginBuilder.java:233)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:131)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:748)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:683)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:349)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:150)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:358)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:416)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:146)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:75)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:37)
> at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:473)
> at HelloWorld.<clinit>(HelloWorld.java:7)
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:36:40 -0700
>> Subject: Re: custom levels via configuration
>> From: garydgreg...@gmail.com
>> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
>>
>> We've never released a version "2.0-1.fc21" so it must be a Fedora build,
>> presumably based on 2.0 or some fork of it.
>>
>> You need to test with version 2.3 or a 2.4-SNAPSHOT. I'll leave you to
>> Google how to install 2.3 on Fedora ;-)
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> First off let me admit that I'm a noob at both Linux and java, and log4j
>>> for that matter.
>>>
>>> I don't know how to package anything so my class that you see is a simple
>>> java class which I compiled using javac. I then run it using 'java
>>> HelloWorld'. I'm running fedora 21. When I do a 'yum list log4j' it says
>>> I have 2.0-1.fc21.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:46:51 -0700
>>>> Subject: Re: custom levels via configuration
>>>> From: garydgreg...@gmail.com
>>>> To: log4j-user@logging.apache.org
>>>>
>>>> This:
>>>>
>>>> <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
>>>>
>>>> is only going to match:
>>>>
>>>> static Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(HelloWorld.class.getName());
>>>>
>>>> if the class in unpackaged, which it looks it is based on this paste but
>>> I
>>>> want to double check that you did not omit anything from the example.
>>>>
>>>> Are you using the latest version (2.3)?.
>>>>
>>>> I just added this test the other day to Git master:
>>>>
>>>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.CustomLevelsTest
>>>>
>>>> And it shows that we can configure custom levels from a file and see them
>>>> in code.
>>>>
>>>> So I am puzzled here.
>>>>
>>>> You could try the latest from Git master as well but I do not recall any
>>>> fixes in this area.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if the Appenders are processed by the configuration _before_ the
>>>> custom levels...
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On to my next problem. I'm trying to define a custom level in
>>>>> configuration. Not sure if it's working or not. However, when I
>>> attempt
>>>>> to get the level for that custom level I get back null, which I wasn't
>>>>> expecting. Here is the log4j2.xml config file:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>>> <Configuration status="trace" verbose="true">
>>>>> <CustomLevels>
>>>>> <CustomLevel name="INFOM1" intLevel="399"/>
>>>>> <CustomLevel name="INFOP1" intLevel="401"/>
>>>>> </CustomLevels>
>>>>> <Appenders>
>>>>> <File name="info" fileName="info.log">
>>>>> <PatternLayout>
>>>>> <Pattern>%d %p %c{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern>
>>>>> </PatternLayout>
>>>>> <Filters>
>>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFOM1" onMatch="DENY"
>>> onMismatch="NEUTRAL"/>
>>>>> <ThresholdFilter level="INFO" onMatch="ACCEPT" onMismatch="DENY"/>
>>>>> </Filters>
>>>>> </File>
>>>>> </Appenders>
>>>>> <Loggers>
>>>>> <Logger name="HelloWorld" level="ALL">
>>>>> <AppenderRef ref="info"/>
>>>>> </Logger>
>>>>> <Root>
>>>>> </Root>
>>>>> </Loggers>
>>>>> </Configuration>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is my code:
>>>>>
>>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
>>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
>>>>> import org.apache.logging.log4j.Level;
>>>>>
>>>>> public class HelloWorld
>>>>> {
>>>>> static Logger log =
>>> LogManager.getLogger(HelloWorld.class.getName());
>>>>>
>>>>> public static void main(String[] args)
>>>>> {
>>>>> System.out.println("Hello, World");
>>>>> log.info("hello this is an INFO message");
>>>>> log.warn("hello this is a WARN message");
>>>>> log.debug("hello this is a DEBUG message");
>>>>> Level level = Level.getLevel("INFOM1");
>>>>> if (level == null)
>>>>> System.out.println("Didn't find level INFOM1");
>>>>> else
>>>>> log.log(level, "hello this is an INFOM1 message");
>>>>> level = Level.getLevel("INFOP1");
>>>>> if (level == null)
>>>>> System.out.println("Didn't find level INFOP1");
>>>>> else
>>>>> log.log(level, "hello this is an INFOP1 message");
>>>>> }
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas? I obviously don't want to use Level.forName() as that will
>>>>> create the level if it doesn't exist and I want to ensure I'm pulling
>>> the
>>>>> value from the configuration.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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