Adding Appenders

The first thing you need to do in your config object is add appenders. Each appender is added via the appender() method.

public void appender( string name, string class, [struct properties={},] [string layout,] [levelMin=0,] [levelMax=4] )

Parameters:

Name

Description

name

A unique name for the appender to register. Only unique names can be registered per instance.

class

The appender's class to register. We will create, init it and register it for you.

properties

The structure of properties to configure this appender with. (OPTIONAL)

layout

The layout class path to use in this appender for custom message rendering. (OPTIONAL)

levelMin

The numerical or English word of the minimal logging level (OPTIONAL, defaults to 0 [FATAL].)

levelMax

The numerical or English word of the maximum logging level (OPTIONAL, defaults to 4 [DEBUG].)

Examples

config.appender(
    name="CFConsole",
    class="coldbox.system.logging.appenders.ConsoleAppender"
);

config.appender(
    name="MyCF",
    class="coldbox.system.logging.appenders.CFAppender"
);

config.appender(
    name="SocketBaby",
    class="coldbox.system.logging.appenders.SocketAppender",
    properties={ host="localhost", port="444", timeout="3", persistConnection=false }
);

config.appender(
    name='Fileapp',
    class="coldbox.system.logging.appenders.FileAppender",
    properties={ filePath="/logs", fileName="Test" },
    layout="model.logging.MyFileLayout"
);

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