Re: fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern

There is a plan to release it.  I think it's been waiting on Chainsaw 2 (or
vice-versa).  The extras are meant to work with Log4j 1.2.  Haven't tried to build
it in a quite a while.  I might have a crack at it tonight.

Jake

Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
> Well, that was a good try
> 
> The extras do not come with a jar file and trying to build the
> distribution fails.
> 
> I would prefer it if someone would just add this functionality to the
> 1.2 stream, at least that's a properly maintained release.
> 
> - Eric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:hoju <at> visi.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:29 AM
> To: Log4J Users List
> Subject: Re: fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern
> 
> See the rolling package in the Log4j "extras" companion...
> 
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/companions/extras/index.html
> 
> Jake
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:04:49 -0700
>   "Eric Kolotyluk" <eric.kolotyluk <at> kodak.com> wrote:
>> One of the nice features I like in log4j 1.3 is
>> FixedWindowRollingPolicy#setFileNamePattern();
>>
>> The log4j default rolling pattern looks like mylog.log1, mylog.log2,
> ...
>> This makes it difficult for desktops to associate the file-type with
>> application used for opening the log file for viewing so I like to use
>>
>> FixedWindowRollingPolicy fixedWindowRollingPolicy = new
>> FixedWindowRollingPolicy();
>> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setFileNamePattern("mylog%i.log");
>> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setMaxIndex(9);
>> fixedWindowRollingPolicy.setMinIndex(0);
>>
>> This way I only have to associate the file suffix '.log' once, with my
>> favorite log file editor, and not for each of '.log1' '.log2' etc.
>>
>> It would be really nice to do this in log4j 1.2. Are there any plans
> to
>> add this to the 1.2 stream?
>>
>> Cheers, Eric
>>
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