[LOG4J2-179] Add Logger interface APIs to log at given levels

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta4
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta5
• Labels: level logger
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Joern Huxhorn
• Created: 21/Mar/13 13:00
• Updated: 13/Feb/16 05:35
• Resolved: 20/Apr/13 20:32

Description

The interface org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger contains the method boolean "isEnabled(Level level)" which is very nice.

I would have expected it to also contain the following methods:

boolean isEnabled(Level level, Marker marker);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, Message msg);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, Message msg, Throwable t);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, Object message);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, Object message, Throwable t);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, String message);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, String message, Object... params);
void log(Level level, Marker marker, String message, Throwable t);
void log(Level level, Message msg);
void log(Level level, Message msg, Throwable t);
void log(Level level, Object message);
void log(Level level, Object message, Throwable t);
void log(Level level, String message);
void log(Level level, String message, Object... params);
void log(Level level, String message, Throwable t);
(i.e. every method defined for an explicit level but just with an Level as the first argument)

That way it would be easier to log at a variable level in cases where the level to be used can only be determined at runtime.