/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.log4j.spi; import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggerRepository; import java.net.URL; /** Implemented by classes capable of configuring log4j using a URL. @since 1.0 @author Anders Kristensen */ public interface Configurator { /** Special level value signifying inherited behaviour. The current value of this string constant is inherited. {@link #NULL} is a synonym. */ public static final String INHERITED = "inherited"; /** Special level signifying inherited behaviour, same as {@link #INHERITED}. The current value of this string constant is null. */ public static final String NULL = "null"; /** Interpret a resource pointed by a URL and set up log4j accordingly. The configuration is done relative to the hierarchy parameter. @param url The URL to parse @param repository The hierarchy to operation upon. */ void doConfigure(URL url, LoggerRepository repository); }