I am trying to extend RollingFileAppender so that it will rotate even when no messages are coming into the logging system. Normally the rollOver method is called when a message arrives and a time check is done to trigger the rotate.
My Version of RollingFileAppender will call rollOver every x seconds so that I am guaranteed a rotate even when no messages arrive.
Now my problem is that RollingFileAppender rollOver has an Access level modifier of no modifier. Thus I can't call it every x seconds like I wish to.
/**
Rollover the current file to a new file.
*/
void rollOver() throws IOException {
Now looking at the code I can't figure out why it requires no modifer and I have decided to bring the class into my packages and call rollOver.
Now this feels dirty do I have any other alternatives if I want to call rollOver?
You can of course do it using reflection.
Source code extracted from the trunk or from tag 1.2.15 : svn at apache
public // synchronization not necessary since doAppend is alreasy synched
void rollOver() {
File target;
...
Do we speak about the same thing : log4j-1.2.15 ?