Logging Configuration

[Robert Fischer]

Can someone please share with me the magic chanting I need in order to do debug-level logging for
all my artefacts? It's something along the lines of grails.app="debug,stdout", but if I put that
before grails="error", the grails="error" eats it, and if I put it after, I get yelled at for trying
to call "app" on a string. Quoting "app" results in being able to run the code, but still not
getting any logging statements.

~~ Robert.

[Jesse O'Neill-Oine]

Here's my current config.  Don't ask me to explain it, though, cause I don't get it.  Easily one of the worst decisions the Grails team has made.  I do believe there is a way to go back to the xml, but I always seem to manage to limp through what I need so I've never looked into it.

log4j {

    appender.stdout = "org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender"

    appender.'stdout.layout'="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"

    appender.'stdout.layout.ConversionPattern'='[%r] %c{2} %m%n'

    appender.errors = "org.apache.log4j.FileAppender"

    appender.'errors.layout'="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"

    appender.'errors.layout.ConversionPattern'='[%r] %c{2} %m%n'

    appender.'errors.File'="stacktrace.log"

    rootLogger="error,stdout"

    logger {

        grails="error"

grails {

                        // This is the important bit for getting artefact logging

app="info"

app {

controller="debug"

service="debug"

domain="debug"

taglib="debug"

task="debug"

}

}

        StackTrace="error,errors"

        org {

            codehaus.groovy.grails.web.servlet="error"  //  controllers

            codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages="error" //  GSP

            codehaus.groovy.grails.web.sitemesh="error" //  layouts

            codehaus.groovy.grails."web.mapping.filter"="error" // URL mapping

            codehaus.groovy.grails."web.mapping"="error" // URL mapping

            codehaus.groovy.grails.commons="info" // core / classloading

            codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins="error" // plugins

            codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate="error" // hibernate integration

            springframework="off"

            hibernate="off"

        }

    }

    additivity.StackTrace=false

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[Robert Fischer]

Forget the XML. I'll take the straight properties list. Copy/pasting "log4j." isn't really that
painful...

~~ Robert.