From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-11-26T00:58:37+09:00
Subject: Re: set logger.progname on a per thread basis

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Kassym Dorsel <k.dorsel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I should have specified.
>
> In each thread I'm creating a new instance of Mechanize and login with a
> different user. I send get requests from each user and I'm using the
> built-in Mechanize logger. On DEBUG mode the log can generate up to 20
> lines of log per request. Since there can be multiple requests going at
> once I want a way to differentiate between them.
>
> The easiest way I thought of doing this was to change the progname on a
> per thread basis, but for that to be thread safe I need to synchronize
> the whole method that uses Mechanize (Browse).

I'd check whether you can insert a thread local into the log.  Java's
log4j has such a feature and I guess the logger you are using might
have as well.  Way better than to synchronize the whole call.

Kind regards

robert


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