That worked. This is an incredibly useful add-on. Thanks for your help.
-Robin
--- James Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try something like Level.error or Level.ERROR.
>
> On 2/23/07, Robin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Looking online, I found this neat bit of code and am trying to use it to
> > send
> STDERR
> > to log4j so we can log all System.err using log4j. Trouble is, it requires
> > both
> a
> > Logger and Level to be passed into the constructor and I'm a bit confused
> > with
> > regards to the "Level".
> >
> > #1 - I'm not clear on what this could represent besides logger.getLevel(),
> > so it
> > seems redundant to me. Granted, I am not an experienced log4j user.
> >
> > #2 - If I do pass in logger.getLevel(), this code snippet errors out because
> level
> > appears to be set to null.
> >
> > #3 - Instantiating a new org.apache.log4j.Level() object doesn't seem
> > feasible
> for
> > reasons that I don't quite understand but probably are apparent to the more
> > experienced.
> >
> > Below is the code snippet. Does anyone have any ideas, or other experiences
> trying
> > to accomplish this sort of thing?
> >
> > Much thanks,
> >
> > -Robin
> >
> > import java.io.IOException;
> > import java.io.OutputStream;
> > import java.io.PrintStream;
> >
> > import org.apache.log4j.Level;
> > import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
> >
> > /**
> > * An OutputStream that flushes out to a Category.
> > *
> > * Note that no data is written out to the Category until the stream is
> > * flushed or closed.
> > *
> > * Example:
> > * // make sure everything sent to System.err is logged
> > * System.setErr(new PrintStream(new
> > * JscLoggingOutputStream(Category.getRoot(),
> > * Priority.WARN), true));
> > *
> > * // make sure everything sent to System.out is also logged
> > * System.setOut(new PrintStream(new
> > * JscLoggingOutputStream(Category.getRoot(),
> > * Priority.INFO), true));
> > *
> > *
> > * @author mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jim Moore
> > * @see Category
> > */
> >
> > //
> > public class JscLoggingOutputStream extends OutputStream {
> >
> > static Logger myLogger =
> Logger.getLogger(JscLoggingOutputStream.class.getName());
> >
> > /**
> > * Used to maintain the contract of [EMAIL PROTECTED] #close()}.
> > */
> > protected boolean hasBeenClosed = false;
> >
> > /**
> > * The internal buffer where data is stored.
> > */
> > protected byte[] buf;
> >
> > /**
> > * The number of valid bytes in the buffer. This value is always
> > * in the range 0 through buf.length; elements
> > * buf[0] through buf[count-1] contain valid
> > * byte data.
> > */
> > protected int count;
> >
> > /**
> > * Remembers the size of the buffer for speed.
> > */
> > private int bufLength;
> >
> > /**
> > * The default number of bytes in the buffer. =2048
> > */
> > public static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH = 2048;
> >
> >
> > /**
> > * The category to write to.
> > */
> > protected Logger logger;
> >
> > /**
> > * The priority to use when writing to the Category.
> > */
> > protected Level level;
> >
> >
> > private JscLoggingOutputStream() {
> >// illegal
> > }
> >
> >
> > /**
> > * Creates the JscLoggingOutputStream to flush to the given Category.
> > *
> > * @param log the Logger to write to
> > * @param level the Level to use when writing to the Logger
> > * @throws IllegalArgumentException if cat == null or priority ==
> > * null
> > */
> > public JscLoggingOutputStream(Logger log, Level level)
> > throws IllegalArgumentException {
> >
> > System.out.println("we're in here...");
> > System.out.println("we're in here...");
> > System.out.println("we're in here...");
> > System.out.println("we're in here...");
> > System.out.println("we're in here...");
> >
> >if (log == null) {
> > System.out.println("error 1");
> >
> > throw new IllegalArgumentException("cat == null");
> >}
> >if (level == null) {
> >System.out.println("error 2");
> > throw new IllegalArgumentException("priority == null");
> >}
> >
> > this.level = level;
> >
> >logger = log;
> >bufLength = DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH;
> >buf = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH];
> >count = 0;
> > }
> >
> >
> > /**
> > * Closes this output stream and releases any system resources
> > * associated with this stream. The general contract of
> > * close
> > * is that it closes the output stream. A closed stream cannot
> > * perform
> > * output operations and cannot be reopened.
> > */
> > public void close() {
> >flush();
> >hasBeenClosed = true;
> > }
> >
> >
> > /**
> > * Writes the specified byte to this output stream. The general
> > * contract for write is that one byte is written
> > * to the output stream. The byte to be written is the eight
> > * low-order bits of the argument b. The 24
> > * high-order bits of b a
