ch.qos.logback.classic.sift

Class MDCBasedDiscriminator

java.lang.Object

<any>

ch.qos.logback.classic.sift.MDCBasedDiscriminator

public class MDCBasedDiscriminator
extends <any>

MDCBasedDiscriminator essentially returns the value mapped to an MDC key. If the said value is null, then a default value is returned.

Both Key and the DefaultValue are user specified properties.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MDCBasedDiscriminator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getDefaultValue()
java.lang.String	getDiscriminatingValue(ILoggingEvent event) Return the value associated with an MDC entry designated by the Key property.
java.lang.String	getKey()
void	setDefaultValue(java.lang.String defaultValue) The default MDC value in case the MDC is not set for mdcKey.
void	setKey(java.lang.String key)
void	start()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MDCBasedDiscriminator

public MDCBasedDiscriminator()

Method Detail

getDiscriminatingValue

public java.lang.String getDiscriminatingValue(ILoggingEvent event)

Return the value associated with an MDC entry designated by the Key property. If that value is null, then return the value assigned to the DefaultValue property.

start

public void start()

getKey

public java.lang.String getKey()

setKey

public void setKey(java.lang.String key)

getDefaultValue

public java.lang.String getDefaultValue()

Returns:

See Also:

setDefaultValue(String)

setDefaultValue

public void setDefaultValue(java.lang.String defaultValue)

The default MDC value in case the MDC is not set for mdcKey.

For example, if Key is set to the value "someKey", and the MDC is not set for "someKey", then this appender will use the default value, which you can set with the help of this method.

Parameters:

defaultValue -