RFR 2: JDK-8005263: Logging APIs takes Supplier<String> for message

[Jason Mehrens]

Brian,
 
It's on my list too for lambdafying I just disagree with current implementation.  I understand and agree that having to create a guard should not be required.  It's awful to have to do.  The point is that patch is still way too eager because you don't want to evaluate a message until the LogRecord arrives at a formatter inside of a handler.  I don't want force anyone to use catalogs.  I want to force everyone to use message parameterized logging (with or without a catalog) because it is powerful, lazy, and doesn't taste like a vegetable.  If your concern is sugary sweets then, add overloaded methods that make message parameterized logging easy for the caller.  If patch was rewritten like I proposed, it would be as terse as your example bellow.  The difference is it would actually be lazy and would be useful when you need to create a custom filter to find some ghost in a production machine.  Relevant or not, my patch would also enable lambdas and message catalogs.  That is something that will never happen under the current patch.
Jason
 
> I think a significant fraction of the community would disagree with you. 
>   We ran a survey where we collected suggestions for lambdafying API 
> methods, and this one came in top of the list.
> There is a significant fraction of the developer community that uses the 
> logging API and doesn't care at all about localization, but does care 
> about logging performance.  One doesn't have to look very far to see 
> that it is common practice to surround logging calls with
> 
>    if (logger.isLogging(level))
>      logger.log(level, msgExpr)
> 
> to work around the eager evaluation.  And such a practice is brittle, 
> because it's easy to forget to do it in one place, and lose the benefit.
> Now, your answer might be "force all users to use message catalogs." 
> But that's pretty mean.  A lot of users really, really don't want to use 
> message catalogs.  They want to do:
> 
>    logger.log(level, () -> String.format(...));
> 
> You're basically saying we should force-feed those users some 
> message-catalog vegetables, because it's good for them.