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Re: SimpleFormatter Question

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Novice <novice@example..com> wrote in news:XnsA011F1BB1A949jpnasty@
94.75.214.39:

> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in
> news:4f5ab90d$0$289$14726298@news.sunsite.dk: 
> 
>> On 3/9/2012 8:40 PM, Novice wrote:
>>> I'm experimenting with java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter and I've run
>>> into a problem.
>>>
>>> The API
>>> 
(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/logging/SimpleForm
>>> att er.html) says that you can control the format of a simple log via
>>> the java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format property; a bunch of
>>> variables are available as the value of the property. I put this
>>> value, copied right out of the API, in my logging.properties:
>>>
>>> java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format="%4$s: %5$s [%1$tc]%n"
>>>
>>> This is supposed to yield a message that looks like this:
>>>
>>> WARNING: warning message [Tue Mar 22 13:11:31 PDT 2011]
>>>
>>> When I run my program though, the output looks like this:
>>>
>>> 9-Mar-2012 6:09:32 PM com.novice.common.LocalizationUtils
>>> getResources SEVERE: The base name cannot be null.
>>>
>>> In other words, the format I've specified is completely ignored.
>>>
>>> What's the trick to make the program use the format I've specified?
>>> I'm confident that the logging.properties file I've specified in my
>>> VM argument is being used because it is naming my log file correctly.
>>> I'm having trouble thinking of any other reason why this isn't
>>> working. Here is my config file with all the comments stripped out.
>>>
>>> 
======================================================================
>>> == handlers= java.util.logging.FileHandler,
>>> java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler .level= ALL
>>> java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = %h/Foo%u.log
>>> java.util.logging.FileHandler.limit = 50000
>>> java.util.logging.FileHandler.count = 1
>>> java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter =
>>> java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
>>> java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format = "%4$s: %5$s [%1$tc]%n"
>>> java.util.logging.FileHandler.level = ALL
>>>
>>> java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = INFO
>>> java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter =
>>> java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
>>>
>>> com.novice.foo.level = ALL
>>> java.level = WARNING
>>> sun.level = WARNING
>>> javax.level = WARNING
>>> 
======================================================================
>>> == 
>>>
>>> I can't see anything in the API that explains this and Google may be
>>> my friend but it isn't helping me sort this out.
>> 
>> Are you using Java 7?
>> 
>> The docs are for Java 7 and that property does not seem to
>> work for Java 6.
>> 
> I think you've solved it!
> 
> I have both Java 6 and 7 in Eclipse but this particular project is 
using 
> Java 6. I've just started using the Java 7 API though. I just assumed 
> that what I was seeing in the Java 7 API had been there for the last 
few 
> versions of Java but I didn't verify that. It seems I've stumbled on a 
> feature new to Java 7....
> 
> In that case, my problem is easily solved: just point the project to 
the 
> Java 7 compiler. 
> 
> Thanks Arne! I don't think I would have found that problem on my own 
any 
> time soon!
> 
> 

One followup question. When I tried this in my logging.properties:

java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format = "%4$s: %5$s [%1$tc]%n"

The log messages included quotes that weren't found in the result 
predicted by the SimpleFormatter documentation. When I removed the quotes 
from the line I've just quoted, the messages came out the way they were 
supposed to. 

In other words, it appears that the quotes shown in the Javadoc don't 
belong there. Should I be filing a Bugzilla for that so that Oracle can 
fix the documentation? Or is there a different procedure to follow?

Of course, someone may have already filed a report for this small error; 
I haven't checked yet. And maybe this error is so small and obvious that 
anyone would figure it out as quickly as I did.

-- 
Novice

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