[1.8.9][Logger] Configuring personal logger through logging.properties

[Major Squirrel]

Good morning,

 

I would like to configure my own logger so that I can display some color into my console. I managed to get a Logger according to the FMLPreInitializationEvent :

 

    /**
     * Get a logger instance configured to write to the FML Log as a parent, identified by modid. Handy for mod logging!
     * Configurations can be applied through the <code>config/logging.properties</code> file, specifying logging levels
     * for your ModID. Use this!
     *
     * @return A logger
     */
    public Logger getModLog()
    {
        Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(modContainer.getModId());
        return log;
    }

 

The doc tells us to configure through a logging.properties file. However, it seems that it doesn't take the file into account. This is the logging.properties file.

 

Have you ever done this ? If yes, could you show me the way ?

 

EDIT : sorry, forgot to tell --> using Windows & Intellij IDEA 15.0.3. I'm aware that IDEA console is independent, which requires a lil' plugin to work with colors. I'm just trying to do this on windows console.

[Choonster]

I'm pretty sure that doc comment is outdated, the method that loads logging configuration files was removed when Minecraft and Forge/FML switched to log4j from Java's Logging API.

[Major Squirrel]

I'm pretty sure that doc comment is outdated, the method that loads logging configuration files was removed when Minecraft and Forge/FML switched to log4j from Java's Logging API.

 

Hello Choonster,

 

Does this mean that we can't configure our own Logger anymore?

[Choonster]

Hello Choonster,

 

Does this mean that we can't configure our own Logger anymore?

 

I'm not an expert on log4j, but I don't think it's possible to configure an individual

Logger

. You can include a log4j config file in your mod, but this overwrites the existing configuration provided by Forge.

[Major Squirrel]

Hello Choonster,

 

Does this mean that we can't configure our own Logger anymore?

 

I'm not an expert on log4j, but I don't think it's possible to configure an individual

Logger

. You can include a log4j config file in your mod, but this overwrites the existing configuration provided by Forge.

 

That's right ! For about 1 hour I did some tests : if you put a config file into the classpath (ex. the resources folder), the config is loaded automatically at start.

 

Apparently, the version provided for FML is log4j 2.x which means that the config file must be called "log4j2". Sadly, I couldn't make it so that the config I provided does not overwrite Forge's config and goes on my own Logger ... (I work on console, not files)

 

If someone succeeded on this task, I would be grateful to share the answer.

[Elix_x]

Interesting: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/logging-log4j-user/200203.mbox/%3CD054B0637615D611967000D0B78059CB025500@IBM3000%3E