Question:

I wrote a custom appender JTableAppender which implements ILoggingEvent. This appender have a public setter-method setModel(..) to assign a table model into the appender, so I can manipulate the model in doAppend().

The JTableAppender is configurated in an XML-File, where I named it TABLE:

<appender name="TABLE" class="blabla.jgwf.test.logger.JTableAppender"> <!-- encoders are by default assigned the type ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder --> <encoder> <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n </pattern> </encoder> </appender>

To be able to use the setter-method from the outside, i tried to get the appender using

Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger("blabal"); JTableAppender<ILoggingEvent> appender = (JTableAppender<ILoggingEvent>)logger.getAppender("TABLE");

When I tried to set a model using

appender.setModel(...);

I get a NullPointerException for exactly this line. The getAppender() didn't work as I wish it would.

<strong>SOLVED</strong>: Use Logger.getRootLogger() instead your local variable 'logger'.

(<em>example</em>)

SMTPAppender emailAppender = (SMTPAppender)Logger.getRootLogger().getAppender("SMTPAppender");

doing this, you wont get NullException, and to <strong>APPLY</strong> changes on your appender then you have to write this: emailAppender.activateOptions();

using logback 1.1.3 I had to:

import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory ... val root: Logger = val root: Logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(org.slf4j.Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME).asInstanceOf[Logger] val myAppender = root.getAppender("MyAppenderName")