[dna-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (DNA-581) Alter logging to use categories and message codes

[Randall Hauch (JIRA)]

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Randall Hauch commented on DNA-581:
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One way to do this is to change the I18n class to have, in addition to the localized message, a locale-independent and immutable "event code".  Thus, the I18n framework could not only find in a bundle the localized messages for a given local but also to look up the code in another resource file (one that doesn't change with locale).  Basically, this can have the same property-file format as the localization files, except that the value should be the code.  To match other JBoss.org projects, the code should be of the form "<SYSTEM>-<EVENT_CODE>", where "<SYSTEM>" is a unique name of the system that is at most 6 characters (e.g., "MODES" for ModeShape) and "<EVENT_CODE>" is a 5-digit, leading zero-padded unique number for the message (e.g., "00001").  I would recommend breaking the 100K-1 range of event codes into ranges for each of our subsystems, so "01XXXX" might apply to our graph subproject, "02XXXX" might apply to the JCR implementation, "11XXXX" might apply to a particular connector (and "1XXXXX" would apply to all connectors), etc.

> Alter logging to use categories and message codes 
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>                 Key: DNA-581
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/DNA-581
>             Project: DNA
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Common
>    Affects Versions: 0.7
>            Reporter: Randall Hauch
>             Fix For: 1.1
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> Our logging facility should use message codes that can be used to cross-reference more information about the message and possible actions to alter the behavior.  The logging should also use categories rather than just using class names.
> Ideally this can be done such that the only changes are to the logging class and the I18n library, and that all other code remains untouched.  (Though we'll have to record for each subproject the message codes in a file so they're durable and documented.)

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