How can I configure logback conditionally based on context name?
In case this helps anyone else, this is how I set up conditional logback configuration with a property that can contain multiple appenders:
<root level="${logback.loglevel}">
<if condition='isDefined("logback.appenders")'>
<then>
<if condition='property("logback.appenders").contains("CONSOLE")'>
<then>
<appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
</then>
</if>
<if condition='property("logback.appenders").contains("FILE")'>
<then>
<appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
</then>
</if>
<if condition='property("logback.appenders").contains("GELF")'>
<then>
<appender-ref ref="GELF"/>
</then>
</if>
</then>
<else>
<appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
</else>
</if>
</root>
The documentation is a bit spare for advanced configuration, but I found that you can use the logback context name as a variable with conditional logging. So for each project I define a custom context name in the projects logback.xml file:
<contextName>project1</contextName>
etc...
Then in my ~/loggingConfig.xml file I can do this:
<property name="appender" value="file" />
<!--if condition='property("CONTEXT_NAME").equalsIgnoreCase("project1")'>
<then>
<property name="appender" value="file" />
</then>
</if-->
<if condition='property("CONTEXT_NAME").equalsIgnoreCase("project2")'>
<then>
<property name="appender" value="console" />
</then>
</if>
<if condition='property("CONTEXT_NAME").equalsIgnoreCase("project3")'>
<then>
<property name="appender" value="file" />
</then>
</if>
This can get a bit clunky, but in reality I am using this solution to configure properties used by a single appender for different projects, while still having a graceful fallback to a default value for projects that don't have their own conditional block.