au.com.forward.logging
Class RobustFormatter

java.lang.Object
  java.util.logging.Formatter
      au.com.forward.logging.RobustFormatter

Direct Known Subclasses:

LoggingSimpleFormatter, LoggingXMLFormatter

public abstract class RobustFormatter
extends java.util.logging.Formatter

A Robust formatter for LogRecords.

Author:

Matthew Ford

Constructor Summary

RobustFormatter()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	formatMessage(java.util.logging.LogRecord record) Format the message using resource bundle if available catch all possible errors and handle them here return the most information we can.
protected abstract java.lang.String	newLineString() Returns the newLine setting for this class
static java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.Object obj) Return toString of object handling null inputs if obj is a Throwable returns the stack trace as a String.

Methods inherited from class java.util.logging.Formatter

format, getHead, getTail

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RobustFormatter

public RobustFormatter()

Method Detail

newLineString

protected abstract java.lang.String newLineString()

Returns the newLine setting for this class

Returns:

the string to use for new lines.

toString

public static java.lang.String toString(java.lang.Object obj)

Return toString of object handling null inputs if obj is a Throwable returns the stack trace as a String.

Parameters:

obj - the Object to convert to a String.

Returns:

"null" if obj is null, else the contents of stack trace if obj is a Throwable else obj.toString() If obj.toString() throws an exception then that exception and its stack trace are returned

formatMessage

public java.lang.String formatMessage(java.util.logging.LogRecord record)

Format the message using resource bundle if available catch all possible errors and handle them here return the most information we can.

Overrides:

formatMessage in class java.util.logging.Formatter

Parameters:

record - the log record to be formatted

Returns:

the string to log