RollingFileAppender extends log4cxx::FileAppender to backup the log files depending on RollingPolicy and TriggeringPolicy. More...

Inheritance diagram for RollingFileAppender:

Public Member Functions
	RollingFileAppender ()

Public Member Functions inherited from RollingFileAppenderSkeleton
	RollingFileAppenderSkeleton ()
	The default constructor simply calls its parents constructor. More...

void	activateOptions (log4cxx::helpers::Pool &)

bool	rollover (log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	Implements the usual roll over behaviour. More...

void	close ()
	Close appender. More...

size_t	getFileLength () const
	Get byte length of current active log file. More...

void	incrementFileLength (size_t increment)
	Increments estimated byte length of current active log file. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from FileAppender
	FileAppender ()
	The default constructor does not do anything. More...

	FileAppender (const LayoutPtr &layout, const LogString &filename, bool append, bool bufferedIO, int bufferSize)
	Instantiate a `FileAppender` and open the file designated by `filename`. More...

	FileAppender (const LayoutPtr &layout, const LogString &filename, bool append)
	Instantiate a FileAppender and open the file designated by `filename`. More...

	FileAppender (const LayoutPtr &layout, const LogString &filename)
	Instantiate a FileAppender and open the file designated by `filename`. More...

	~FileAppender ()

virtual void	setFile (const LogString &file)
	The File property takes a string value which should be the name of the file to append to. More...

virtual void	setFile (const LogString &file, bool append, bool bufferedIO, size_t bufferSize, log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	Sets and opens the file where the log output will go. More...

bool	getAppend () const
	Returns the value of the Append option. More...

LogString	getFile () const
	Returns the value of the File option. More...

void	setOption (const LogString &option, const LogString &value)
	Set `option` to `value`. More...

bool	getBufferedIO () const
	Get the value of the BufferedIO option. More...

int	getBufferSize () const
	Get the size of the IO buffer. More...

void	setAppend (bool fileAppend1)
	The Append option takes a boolean value. More...

void	setBufferedIO (bool bufferedIO)
	The BufferedIO option takes a boolean value. More...

void	setBufferSize (int bufferSize1)
	Set the size of the IO buffer. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from WriterAppender
	WriterAppender ()
	This default constructor does nothing. More...

	~WriterAppender ()

void	setImmediateFlush (bool value)
	If the ImmediateFlush option is set to `true`, the appender will flush at the end of each write. More...

bool	getImmediateFlush () const
	Returns value of the ImmediateFlush option. More...

virtual void	append (const spi::LoggingEventPtr &event, log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	This method is called by the AppenderSkeleton::doAppend method. More...

LogString	getEncoding () const

void	setEncoding (const LogString &value)

void	setOption (const LogString &option, const LogString &value)
	Set `option` to `value`. More...

void	setWriter (const log4cxx::helpers::WriterPtr &writer)

virtual bool	requiresLayout () const
	Configurators call this method to determine if the appender requires a layout. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from AppenderSkeleton
	AppenderSkeleton ()

	AppenderSkeleton (const LayoutPtr &layout)

void	addRef () const

void	releaseRef () const

void	finalize ()
	Finalize this appender by calling the derived class' `close` method. More...

void	addFilter (const spi::FilterPtr &newFilter)
	Add a filter to end of the filter list. More...

void	clearFilters ()
	Clear the filters chain. More...

const spi::ErrorHandlerPtr &	getErrorHandler () const
	Return the currently set spi::ErrorHandler for this Appender. More...

spi::FilterPtr	getFilter () const
	Returns the head Filter. More...

const spi::FilterPtr &	getFirstFilter () const
	Return the first filter in the filter chain for this Appender. More...

LayoutPtr	getLayout () const
	Returns the layout of this appender. More...

LogString	getName () const
	Returns the name of this Appender. More...

const LevelPtr &	getThreshold () const
	Returns this appenders threshold level. More...

bool	isAsSevereAsThreshold (const LevelPtr &level) const
	Check whether the message level is below the appender's threshold. More...

virtual void	doAppend (const spi::LoggingEventPtr &event, log4cxx::helpers::Pool &pool)
	This method performs threshold checks and invokes filters before delegating actual logging to the subclasses specific AppenderSkeleton::append method. More...

void	setErrorHandler (const spi::ErrorHandlerPtr &eh)
	Set the ErrorHandler for this Appender. More...

void	setLayout (const LayoutPtr &layout1)
	Set the layout for this appender. More...

void	setName (const LogString &name1)
	Set the name of this Appender. More...

void	setThreshold (const LevelPtr &threshold)
	Set the threshold level. More...

Public Member Functions inherited from Appender
virtual	~Appender ()

Public Member Functions inherited from OptionHandler
virtual	~OptionHandler ()

Public Member Functions inherited from Object
virtual const helpers::Class &	getClass () const

virtual	~Object ()

virtual bool	instanceof (const Class &clazz) const =0

virtual const void *	cast (const Class &clazz) const =0

Public Member Functions inherited from ObjectImpl
	ObjectImpl ()

virtual	~ObjectImpl ()

void	addRef () const

void	releaseRef () const

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from FileAppender
static LogString	stripDuplicateBackslashes (const LogString &name)
	Replaces double backslashes with single backslashes for compatibility with paths from earlier XML configurations files. More...

Static Public Member Functions inherited from Object
static const helpers::Class &	getStaticClass ()

static const log4cxx::helpers::ClassRegistration &	registerClass ()

Protected Member Functions inherited from RollingFileAppenderSkeleton
virtual void	subAppend (const spi::LoggingEventPtr &event, log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	Actual writing occurs here. More...

RollingPolicyPtr	getRollingPolicy () const

TriggeringPolicyPtr	getTriggeringPolicy () const

void	setRollingPolicy (const RollingPolicyPtr &policy)
	Sets the rolling policy. More...

void	setTriggeringPolicy (const TriggeringPolicyPtr &policy)

log4cxx::helpers::WriterPtr	createWriter (log4cxx::helpers::OutputStreamPtr &os)
	Returns an OutputStreamWriter when passed an OutputStream. More...

Protected Member Functions inherited from WriterAppender
	WriterAppender (const LayoutPtr &layout, log4cxx::helpers::WriterPtr &writer)

	WriterAppender (const LayoutPtr &layout)

virtual bool	checkEntryConditions () const
	This method determines if there is a sense in attempting to append. More...

void	closeWriter ()
	Close the underlying log4cxx::helpers::Writer. More...

virtual void	writeFooter (log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	Write a footer as produced by the embedded layout's Layout::appendFooter method. More...

virtual void	writeHeader (log4cxx::helpers::Pool &p)
	Write a header as produced by the embedded layout's Layout::appendHeader method. More...

Protected Member Functions inherited from AppenderSkeleton
void	doAppendImpl (const spi::LoggingEventPtr &event, log4cxx::helpers::Pool &pool)

Protected Attributes inherited from FileAppender
bool	fileAppend
	Append to or truncate the file? The default value for this variable is `true`, meaning that by default a `FileAppender` will append to an existing file and not truncate it. More...

LogString	fileName
	The name of the log file. More...

bool	bufferedIO
	Do we do bufferedIO? More...

int	bufferSize
	How big should the IO buffer be? Default is 8K. More...

Protected Attributes inherited from AppenderSkeleton
LayoutPtr	layout
	The layout variable does not need to be set if the appender implementation has its own layout. More...

LogString	name
	Appenders are named. More...

LevelPtr	threshold
	There is no level threshold filtering by default. More...

spi::ErrorHandlerPtr	errorHandler
	It is assumed and enforced that errorHandler is never null. More...

spi::FilterPtr	headFilter
	The first filter in the filter chain. More...

spi::FilterPtr	tailFilter
	The last filter in the filter chain. More...

bool	closed
	Is this appender closed? More...

log4cxx::helpers::Pool	pool

SHARED_MUTEX	mutex

Protected Attributes inherited from ObjectImpl
unsigned int volatile	ref

Detailed Description

RollingFileAppender extends log4cxx::FileAppender to backup the log files depending on RollingPolicy and TriggeringPolicy.

To be of any use, a RollingFileAppender instance must have both a RollingPolicy and a TriggeringPolicy set up. However, if its RollingPolicy also implements the TriggeringPolicy interface, then only the former needs to be set up. For example, TimeBasedRollingPolicy acts both as a RollingPolicy and a TriggeringPolicy.

RollingFileAppender can be configured programattically or using log4cxx::xml::DOMConfigurator. Here is a sample configration file:

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

<log4j:configuration debug="true">

  <appender name="ROLL" class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
    <rollingPolicy class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
      <param name="FileNamePattern" value="/wombat/foo.%d{yyyy-MM}.gz"/>
    </rollingPolicy>

    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%c{1} - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <root">
    &lt;appender-ref ref="ROLL"/>
  </root>

</log4j:configuration>

This configuration file specifies a monthly rollover schedule including automatic compression of the archived files. See TimeBasedRollingPolicy for more details.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

RollingFileAppender ( )

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

rolling/rollingfileappender.h

Public Member Functions

Additional Inherited Members

Detailed Description

Constructor & Destructor Documentation