[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (LOGMGR-45) Have loggers inherit filters

Have loggers inherit filters ---------------------------- Key: LOGMGR-45 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-45 Project: JBoss Log Manager Issue Type: Feature Request Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Reporter: Kelly Dolan Assignee: David Lloyd I had the need to log a specific INFO message and only that message. This message was logged from a class whose category is org.jboss.as.server. To get the message to even ask itself to be logged, I had to add the following to the log configuration (my STATUS handler was a simple console-handler). Given this, I saw a lot of INFO+ messages for the org.jboss.as.server category as well as other subcategories (e.g., org.jboss.as.server.deployment). <logger category="org.jboss.as.server"> <level name="INFO"/> <handlers> <handler name="STATUS"/> </handlers> </logger> Next, I tried to restrict it by adding the <filter> element to the <logger>. <filter> <match pattern="JBAS018559"/> </filter> This did not appear to work...it made no impact on what was logged. So I moved it to the <console-handler> which only logged what I wanted it to log. In the forum post, it was determined the <filter> on the <logger> is not inherited. As a result, the <filter> is only applied to the specified category, not any of its subcategories. This request is to change the <logger> such that its <filter> is applied to all categories it applies itself to. From my point of view (and I realize it may be a limited view at this time), this keeps it consistent (e.g., <level> applies to all categories, <handler> applies to all categories). W/ no documentation on this feature, inheritance was assumed. Also, given it currently does not apply to all categories, does it make log configurations more complicated? In my case, I was able to easily move it to my handler but no one else was referencing it. If it had been in use by someone else, would I have had to create a new handler to be referenced only by the logger? Or would the filter have been able to be written in more complexity to allow logging of all it currently logs + one message - everything the new logger lets pass through? Or could one create additional loggers for sub-categories to set level=ERROR? (All rhetorical questions.)