org.openorb.util.logger
Interface LoggerTeam

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger

All Known Implementing Classes:

NullLoggerTeam, AbstractLoggerTeam

public interface LoggerTeam

extends org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger

An extension to the Logger interface to allow a team of supplementary loggers to associated with a main logger. It is the main logger which handles the standard logger requests.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 2003/05/02 14:23:57 $

Author:

Richard G Clark

Inner Class Summary

static interface

LoggerTeam.StandardTags The current set of standard tags used to identify member loggers.

Method Summary

LoggerTeam	createChildLoggerTeam(String name) Creates a new child LoggerTeam with the specified name.
LoggerTeam	createPrefixingLoggerTeam() Creates a prefixing version of this LoggerTeam.
org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger	getMember(Object tag) Returns the memeber logger associated with the tag.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger

debug, debug, error, error, fatalError, fatalError, getChildLogger, info, info, isDebugEnabled, isErrorEnabled, isFatalErrorEnabled, isInfoEnabled, isWarnEnabled, warn, warn

Method Detail

getMember

public org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger getMember(Object tag)

Returns the memeber logger associated with the tag. This operation will always return a logger as an undefined tag is implicitly associated with a NullLogger.

Parameters:

tag - the logger's tag

Returns:

a logger

createChildLoggerTeam

public LoggerTeam createChildLoggerTeam(String name)

Creates a new child LoggerTeam with the specified name. This operation has the same function as the getChildLogger operation, but avoids the need to cast to LoggerTeam.

Parameters:

name - the new child's name

Returns:

the new logger

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if name is an empty string

See Also:

Logger.getChildLogger(String)

createPrefixingLoggerTeam

public LoggerTeam createPrefixingLoggerTeam()

Creates a prefixing version of this LoggerTeam.

Returns:

the new logger