[Hawkular-dev] What should be the replacement for printlns in tests?

[Peter Palaga]

On 2016-01-27 15:32, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:
>
> Yes, of course, that's the usefulness of loggers, but that doesn't mean
> system println is worse than INFO logging in test code.

Yes, println is worse than INFO logging because there e.g. is no way how 
you can pointedly turn printlns off for a given class.

> Meaning, to the
> point of adding checkstyle misery.

@Matt perhaps wants to say something ? :)

Checkstyle or not, I found myself adding printlns because I have not 
seen a better alternative.

So there is nobody here who knows how to config the test logging with 
jboss.logging?

-- P

> On 1/27/2016 9:13 AM, Peter Palaga wrote:
>> Loggers unlike printlns offer some control over topics to log and their
>> individual verbosities. In other words it is possible to turn on
>> detailed logging for a test that makes problems, and turn off all
>> others. -- P
>>
>> On 2016-01-27 15:05, Thomas Segismont wrote:
>>> I don't know the motivation of the JIRA, but as far as I'm concerned, I
>>> prefer usage of loggers so that I can have tests verbose in CI but quiet
>>> locally.
>>>
>>> Le 27/01/2016 14:58, Juraci Paixão Kröhling a écrit :
>>>> Good question. In general, I quite like when tests write some debugging
>>>> information to stdout/stderr , so that tools like Jenkins can record the
>>>> output that each specific test had.
>>>>
>>>> - Juca.
>>>>
>>>> On 27.01.2016 14:55, Jay Shaughnessy wrote:
>>>>> Just out of curiosity, i'm not against a change, but what is the reason
>>>>> to not have printlns, the jira just says "should not have" and doesn't
>>>>> state the misfortune that befalls their use.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/27/2016 4:44 AM, Peter Palaga wrote:
>>>>>> Hi *,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Short version: How to configure the log levels for individual
>>>>>> jboss.logging loggers in tests run by maven outside the container?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Long version:
>>>>>> I was recently assignedhttps://issues.jboss.org/browse/HAWKULAR-264  Add
>>>>>> println checks to the checkstyle. It says that "Tests shouldn't be
>>>>>> allowed to have printlns, we should enforce this via the checkstyle plugin."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I fully agree for tests being run on the server side - those can use
>>>>>> JBoss Logging in the very same manner as the server code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, what is the best replacement for println()s in tests that are
>>>>>> run outside the server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried using JBoss Logging there too but I failed completely to find a
>>>>>> way to configure the log levels for individual loggers. Does anybody
>>>>>> know how to do that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To get my work done without using printlns, I started to use
>>>>>> java.util.logging configured via logging.properties :
>>>>>> https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-agent/blob/master/hawkular-wildfly-agent-itest-parent/hawkular-wildfly-agent-itest/src/test/resources/logging.properties
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So what should be the replacement for printlns in tests?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter
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