RFR: 8024525 - Make Logger log methods call isLoggable()

[Daniel Fuchs]

Hi,

New changeset incorporating Alan's feedback:

<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8024525/webrev.01/>

How/why the test works should now appear more clearly :-)

-- daniel



On 9/12/13 10:40 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 11/09/2013 18:59, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please find below a changeset for a small logging RFE:
>>
>> 8024525 - Make Logger log methods call isLoggable()
>>
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8024525/webrev.00/>
>>
>> This change makes the various Logger logging method call isLoggable()
>> instead of simply inlining the checks.
>> This should make the life easier for subclasses of Logger which
>> want to control when messages should be logged.
>>
>> The test is a bit obscure but it calls all the methods
>> that have been modified and checks that they log when isLoggable()
>> is true and don't log when isLoggable() is false.
> The update to Logger looks okay to me.
>
> I think the test could benefit from a comment to more fully explain why
> it checks that isLoggable has been called (as you say, the test is a bit
> obscure). A minor comment is that "levels" should probably be in
> uppercase. Also I assume the commented-out debug message in publish
> isn't needed.
>
> -Alan.