Mingliang Liu created HDFS-9130:
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             Summary: Use GenericTestUtils#setLogLevel to set log4j or slf4j 
logger's level in unit tests
                 Key: HDFS-9130
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9130
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Task
            Reporter: Mingliang Liu
            Assignee: Mingliang Liu


Currently we use both commons-logging and slf4j in {{hadoop-hdfs}}. To change 
the change the logger level for dumping verbose debug information, there are 
many unit tests that just cast the LOG object to a {{Log4JLogger}} and call 
{{setLevel}} on that. e.g.
{code}
((Log4JLogger)LOG).getLogger().setLevel(Level.ALL);
{code}
One problem of this hard-coded approach is that we need to update the casting 
code in test if we replace the log4j logger with slf4j. For example, as we're 
creating a separate jar for hdfs-client (see [HDFS-6200]) which uses only 
slf4j, we need to replace the log4j logger with slf4j logger, and to update the 
casting for changing logger's level in unit tests as well.

Instead, we can use the {{GenericTestUtils#setLogLevel}} (brought in 
[HADOOP-11430]) method for both types of logger. This method internally figures 
out the right thing to do based on the log / logger type. e.g.
{code}
GenericTestUtils.setLogLevel(LOG, Level.ALL);
{code}



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