The LogRecord
class wraps the messages logged to a Logger
. You can either log a LogRecord
directly to aLogger
, or have the Logger
wrap what is logged in a LogRecord
. That is, all logging methods on the Logger
that do not take a LogRecord
will wrap the parameters passed to the log method in a LogRecord
object.
Once a LogRecord
is passed to, or produced internally by the Logger
, it can be passed to a Filter
(if a filter is set), to Handler
‘s, and to Logger
‘s further op the Logger hierarchy.
The LogRecord
contains the following getter methods, which can be used in e.g. a Filter
to determine if theLogRecord
should be logged or not:
getLevel() getLoggerName() getMessage() getMillis() getParameters() getResourceBundle() getResourceBundleName() getSequenceNumber() getSourceClassName() getSourceMethodName() getThreadID() getThrown()
Each of these getter methods have a corresponding setter method too, but unless you create LogRecord
instances yourself, you won‘t need the setter methods. Here is a brief explanation of the getter methods.
The getLevel()
method returns the log level the message represented by this LogRecord
was logged with.
The getLoggerName()
method returns the name of the Logger
that logged this LogRecord
.
The getMessage()
method returns the message logged.
The getMillis()
method returns the time in milliseconds this LogRecord
was recorded.
The getParameters()
method returns the parameters to be inserted into the message of this LogRecord
.
The getResourceBundle()
method returns the ResourceBundle
(if any) used to localize the message of thisLogRecord
. If no ResourceBundle
is used, this method returns null.
The getResourceBundleName()
method returns the name of the ResourceBundle
(if any) used to localize the message of this LogRecord
. If no ResourceBundle
is used, null is returned.
The getSequenceNumber()
method returns a sequence number generated internally in the LogRecord
constructor when the LogRecord
is created.
The getSourceClassName()
returns the class name of the class logging the message represented by thisLogRecord
. Keep in mind though, that this name may not be entirely correct for various reasons. See the JavaDoc for more details.
The getSourceMethodName()
returns the method name of the method logging the message represented by this LogRecord
. Keep in mind though, that this name may not be entirely correct for various reasons. See the JavaDoc for more details.
The getThreadID()
method returns the ID of the thread logging the message represented by this LogRecord
.
The getThrown()
method returns the Throwable
that was marked thrown when logging the message represented by this LogRecord
. This Throwable
is either passed as parameter to a Logger
log method, or set directly on a LogRecord
which is then passed to a Logger
. This Throwable
is typically what caused the log message to be logged.