Option to exclude "current-date" from FileWriter.daily

[andreak]

Using FileWriter.daily, the current ("today") logfile's date is part of the filename.
It would be nice to make an option for excluding the date from the current-file. This would make it easier to make existing monitoring-jobs (which today monitors log4j/slf4j files) to continue monitoring the logfiles, without needing to change them.

[darkfrog26]

You mean having the current daily log have a consistent filename and at the conclusion of the day it gets renamed to the date stamp?

[andreak]

Yes, this makes it consistent with how log4j's DailyRollingFileAppender behaves.

[darkfrog26]

I need to spend a little more time with the path functionality anyway. This is a good idea. I'll get it added to the current release.

Thanks @andreak

[andreak]

Great!

[darkfrog26]

@andreak take a look at the re-working of FileWriter. I need to write some tests to make sure everything is happy with the rolling logging, but it offers a much more flexible path and hopefully fulfills all of your needs.

[andreak]

Ok, so instead of using .daily() I must use apply() supplying my own instance of FormattedFileLoggingManager, which takes a custom fileName func where I simply control whether or not to use the millis-value as part of the filename or not?
Works for me.

[darkfrog26]

Actually, you can just use rolling if you're doing simple daily rolling files.

[darkfrog26]

https://github.com/outr/scribe/blob/master/core/jvm/src/main/scala/scribe/writer/FileWriter.scala#L38

[andreak]

Aha, right.

[darkfrog26]

@andreak can you close this ticket once you've confirmed it fulfills your needs?

[andreak]

It looks like it'll fulfill my needs, but I have to test with actual rollover, which happens in about 35 min. :-)
I'll close it if all goes well.

[andreak]

Works, closing.