Pass in all appender parameters to the Hook constructor so a port can be specified

README.md

@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ This was mainly created for [cluster](https://github.com/LearnBoost/cluster), bu
       .use(cluster.pidfiles('run/pids'))
       .listen(3000);
 </pre>
+log4js-master/worker.json hookio appender parameters will be passed into the Hook constructor directly, so you can specify hook-port, hook-host etc.
 *NOTE* hook.io appender will currently (and probably indefinitely) explode if you enable hook.io debug because of the way log4js overrides console.log
 
 ## author (of this node version)

lib/appenders/hookio.js

@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ function deserializeLoggingEvent(loggingEvent) {
   };
 }
 
-function createAppender(hookioOptions, actualAppender) {
+function createAppender(hookioOptions) {
   var loggerHook;
   if (hookioOptions.mode === 'master') {
     // Start the master hook, handling the actual logging
-    loggerHook = new Logger({ name: hookioOptions.name, debug: hookioOptions.debug, actualAppender: actualAppender });
+    loggerHook = new Logger(hookioOptions);
   } else {
     // Start a worker, just emitting events for a master
-    loggerHook = new Hook({ name: hookioOptions.name, debug: hookioOptions.debug });
+    loggerHook = new Hook(hookioOptions);
   }
   loggerHook.start();
 
@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@ function configure(config) {
   if (config.appender && config.mode === 'master') {
     log4js.loadAppender(config.appender.type);
     actualAppender = log4js.appenderMakers[config.appender.type](config.appender);
+    config.actualAppender = actualAppender;
   }
-  delete config.appender;
-  delete config.type;
-  return createAppender(config, actualAppender);
+  return createAppender(config);
 }
 
 exports.name = 'hookio';

test/hookioAppender.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ var assert = require('assert');
 var sandbox = require('sandboxed-module');
 
 function fancyResultingHookioAppender(opts) {
-  var result = { ons: {}, emissions: {}, logged: [] };
+  var result = { ons: {}, emissions: {}, logged: [], configs: [] };
 
   var fakeLog4Js = {
     appenderMakers: {}
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ function fancyResultingHookioAppender(opts) {
     };
   };
 
-  var fakeHookIo = { Hook: function() { } };
+  var fakeHookIo = { Hook: function(config) { result.configs.push(config); } };
   fakeHookIo.Hook.prototype.start = function () {
     result.startCalled = true;
   };
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ vows.describe('log4js hookioAppender').addBatch({
   'master': {
     topic: function() {
       var fancy = fancyResultingHookioAppender();
-      var logger = fancy.theModule.configure({ name: 'ohno', mode: 'master', appender: { type: 'file' } });
+      var logger = fancy.theModule.configure({ name: 'ohno', mode: 'master', 'hook-port': 5001, appender: { type: 'file' } });
       logger({ level: { levelStr: 'INFO' }, data: "ALRIGHTY THEN", startTime: '2011-10-27T03:53:16.031Z' });
       logger({ level: { levelStr: 'DEBUG' }, data: "OH WOW", startTime: '2011-10-27T04:53:16.031Z'});
       return fancy.theResult;
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ vows.describe('log4js hookioAppender').addBatch({
 
     'should write to the actual appender': function (result) {
       assert.isTrue(result.startCalled);
+      assert.equal(result.configs.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(result.configs[0]['hook-port'], 5001);
       assert.equal(result.logged.length, 2);
       assert.equal(result.emissions['ohno::log'].length, 2);
       assert.equal(result.ons['*::ohno::log'].callingCount, 2);