Java/CSSDK - logging question

Adam Stoller

I'm trying to figure out how to correctly configure the log4j.xml file in association with how to correctly reference it from within my code.

I have a java class that I created for a URL/External Task - the code basically works, but I want to add diagnostic logging for it and preferably put it into my own file (instead of servletd_out.log).

An excerpt of the java code:

...
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
...
public class MyClassName implements CSURLExternalTask {
    ...
    public void execute(CSClient client, CSExternalTask task, Hashtable hash) throws CSException {
        Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("MyClassName");

        CSWorkflow job = task.getWorkflow();
        logger.debug("=========== STARTING ===========");
        ...
    }
    ...
}

My log4j.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" 
                     debug="false">

  <appender name="CUSTOM" class="org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender">
    <param name="File" value="${log100.iwlogs}/output.log"/>
    <param name="MaxFileSize" value="100MB"/>
    <param name="MaxBackupIndex" value="10"/>
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p > %c (%x) - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <logger name="MyClassName" additivity="false">
    <level value="debug"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CUSTOM"/>
  </logger>
</log4j:configuration>

The results are such that right now - I still see output in servletd_out.log

...
=========== STARTING ===========
...

but nothing is getting put into my custom "output.log".

So - what am I doing wrong here?

Crsb

what you have seems right. your output is going to servlet_out.log because the task couldn't get the logger specified, so it uses the root or ancestor logger.

does the file output.log exist? was it created manually or by the workflow?
try hard-coding the path of output.log /iw-home/local/logs/output.log