Review request for 6381464: "SimpleFormatter should use one single line format"

[Alan Bateman]

Mandy Chung wrote:
>
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> 6381464: SimpleFormatter should use one single line format
>
> This is a follow-up of the review for 7006814.   I came up with a better
> solution that allows a user to customize the output format for 
> SimpleFormatter.
> You can specify the format string using the java.util.Formatter syntax in
> a new property: "java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter" that you can 
> customize
> your own output format. See the javadoc for details:
>     
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk7/6381464/api/java/util/logging/SimpleFormatter.html 
>
>
> Webrev at:
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk7/6381464/webrev.00/
It definitely make sense to do this in conjunction with 7006814. I've 
gone through the webrev and it mostly looks good to me. A couple of 
small comments:

SimpleFormatter L144-146, you could use a StringBuilder to build it up 
when the source file is known.

SimpleFormatter L156, I assume this should be %n rather than \n. Same 
thing in PlatformLogger.

SimpleFormatter L161, this pre-dates your changes but I don't see why it 
catch Exception here. Same thing in PlatformLogger.

In logging.properties it might be good to extend the comment to mention 
that the example generate one-line log messages.

The new test has a copyright date of 2010, I assume this should be 2011.

In the test would it be better to use a temporary file rather than a 
file in the working directory.

-Alan.