[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-2604) IDEA/Eclipse development - Make it possible to log to log/eventlog

[Claus Ibsen (JIRA)]

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Claus Ibsen commented on FORGE-2604:
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I had a chat with gastaldi
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[13:10:32]  <gastaldi>	I agree with your logging idea. Right now we rely on JUL but that doesn't really work well inside the plugins (eg. Forge.log is not used).
[13:11:09]  <davsclaus>	yeah i found this
[13:11:09]  <davsclaus>	https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/util-rt/src/com/intellij/openapi/diagnostic/LoggerRt.java
[13:11:18]  <gastaldi>	Perhaps the UIOutput.error method could log to the event log?
[13:11:21]  <davsclaus>	but i couldnt get that to work initially
[13:11:25]  <davsclaus>	so i just wrote a poor man
[13:11:40]  <davsclaus>	yeah
[13:12:07]  <davsclaus>	so what i see is that often there is either 1 log line in event log 
[13:12:25]  <davsclaus>	if there was an error that would be  the exception message
[13:12:32]  <davsclaus>	very seldom i see a full stacktrace
[13:12:33]  <gastaldi>	We generally log exceptions in the Eclipse event log
[13:12:49]  <davsclaus>	yeah if you can figure out to get them in idea event log
[13:12:57]  <davsclaus>	also i have seen that
[13:13:00]  <davsclaus>	if i teturn
[13:13:05]  <davsclaus>	Results.fail("xxx")
[13:13:10]  <davsclaus>	then that is not shown either
[13:13:18]  <gastaldi>	Right
[13:13:20]  <davsclaus>	but it could be my command that is a wizard
[13:13:22]  <davsclaus>	so it has some steps
[13:13:27]  <gastaldi>	Oh
[13:13:34]  <davsclaus>	but the command sad "success"
[13:13:37]  <davsclaus>	when i ran 
[13:13:38]  <davsclaus>	it
[13:13:40]  <gastaldi>	Yeah. It returns as a CompositeResult
[13:13:50]  <gastaldi>	Hmm
[13:13:54]  <davsclaus>	so dont you check if any of those is a fail
[13:13:57]  <davsclaus>	and then show that 
[13:14:01]  <davsclaus>	over an success
[13:14:18]  <gastaldi>	We do, it might have a bug in it
[13:14:24]  <davsclaus>	also there is little confusion if you should return null or Results.success
[13:14:28]  <davsclaus>	when you have a wizard
[13:14:35]  <gastaldi>	That's indifferent
[13:14:51]  <gastaldi>	Forge considers success when null is returned
[13:14:54]  <davsclaus>	ah ok so a null is like a success
[13:15:08]  <gastaldi>	Yeap
[13:17:54]  <gastaldi>	Mind copying this chat log to the JIRA? My mobile app doesn't support it. Will move to my laptop in a few mins
[13:18:14]  <davsclaus>	k
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> IDEA/Eclipse development - Make it possible to log to log/eventlog
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>
>                 Key: FORGE-2604
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-2604
>             Project: Forge
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: UI - API
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0.CR1
>            Reporter: Claus Ibsen
>
> Developing forge addons is really painful when developing and testing for GUIs such as IDEA or Eclipse.
> There is no logging or visibility what happens. And logging on IDEA or Eclipse is different, and you as a forge addon developed dont really know where the log files of IDEA/Eclipse are stored and how to log to them. 
> Forge should have an easy API that you can use to
> - log in IDEA/Eclipse log
> - log to custom log file which you can easily configure
> - log to IDEA/Eclipse event log / console.



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