working, except for tests which expect log levels to persist across getLogger calls

lib/log4js.js

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
  * @static
  * Website: http://log4js.berlios.de
  */
-var debug = require('./debug')('log4js-core')
+var debug = require('./debug')('core')
 , fs = require('fs')
 , path = require('path')
 , util = require('util')
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ function getLogger (categoryName) {
 
   debug("getLogger(" + categoryName + ")");
 
-  return new Logger(categoryName, levels.toLevel(categoryLevels[categoryName]) || null);
+  return new Logger(categoryName, categoryLevels[categoryName] || null, dispatch);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -152,17 +152,21 @@ function getDefaultLogger () {
  */
 function dispatch(event) {
   debug("event is " + util.inspect(event));
-  if (appenders[event.category]) {
+  debug("appenders is " + util.inspect(appenders));
-    dispatchToCategory(event.category, event);
+  if (appenders[event.categoryName]) {
+    debug("appender defined for " + event.categoryName);
+    dispatchToCategory(event.categoryName, event);
   }
 
   if (appenders[ALL_CATEGORIES]) {
+    debug("appender defined for " + ALL_CATEGORIES);
     dispatchToCategory(ALL_CATEGORIES, event);
   }
 }
 
 function dispatchToCategory(category, event) {
   appenders[category].forEach(function(appender) {
+    debug("Sending " + util.inspect(event) + " to appender " + appender);
     appender(event);
   });
 }

lib/logger.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 "use strict";
-var levels = require('./levels')
+var debug = require('./debug')('logger')
+, levels = require('./levels')
 , util = require('util')
-, log4js = require('./log4js')
 , DEFAULT_CATEGORY = '[default]';
 
 /**
@@ -26,17 +26,20 @@ function LoggingEvent (categoryName, level, data) {
  * @param name name of category to log to
  * @author Stephan Strittmatter
  */
-function Logger (name, level) {
+function Logger (name, level, dispatch) {
   this.category = name || DEFAULT_CATEGORY;
   
   if (level) {
     this.setLevel(level);
   }
+
+  this.dispatch = dispatch;
 }
 Logger.DEFAULT_CATEGORY = DEFAULT_CATEGORY;
 Logger.prototype.level = levels.TRACE;
 
 Logger.prototype.setLevel = function(level) {
+  debug("setting level to " + level);
   this.level = levels.toLevel(level, this.level || levels.TRACE);
 };
 
@@ -48,8 +51,8 @@ Logger.prototype.log = function() {
   var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)
   , logLevel = args.shift()
   , loggingEvent = new LoggingEvent(this.category, logLevel, args);
-
+  debug("Logging event " + loggingEvent + " to dispatch = " + util.inspect(this.dispatch));
-  log4js.dispatch(loggingEvent);
+  this.dispatch(loggingEvent);
 };
 
 Logger.prototype.isLevelEnabled = function(otherLevel) {

test/logger-test.js

@@ -57,16 +57,13 @@ vows.describe('../lib/logger').addBatch({
   },
 
   'log': {
-    topic: new Logger('testing'),
+    topic: function() {
-    'should send log events to log4js': function(logger) {
+      var evt
-      var evt, original = log4js.dispatch;
+      , logger = new Logger('testing', null, function(event) { evt = event; });
-      log4js.dispatch = function(event) {
-        evt = event;
-      };
-
       logger.log(levels.DEBUG, "cheese");
-      log4js.dispatch = original;
+      return evt;
-
+    },
+    'should send log events to log4js': function(evt) {
       assert.equal(evt.categoryName, 'testing');
       assert.equal(evt.level, levels.DEBUG);
       assert.equal(evt.data[0], "cheese");

test/logging-test.js

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ vows.describe('log4js').addBatch({
     'log events' : {
       topic: function(logger) {
         var events = [];
+        var log4js = require('../lib/log4js');
         log4js.addAppender(function (logEvent) { events.push(logEvent); }, "tests");
         logger.debug("Debug event");
         logger.trace("Trace event 1");