001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the license. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.logging.log4j.spi; 018 019 import java.net.URI; 020 021 /** 022 * Implemented by factories that create {@link LoggerContext} objects. 023 */ 024 public interface LoggerContextFactory { 025 026 /** 027 * Creates a {@link LoggerContext}. 028 * 029 * @param fqcn The fully qualified class name of the caller. 030 * @param loader The ClassLoader to use or null. 031 * @param currentContext If true returns the current Context, if false returns the Context appropriate 032 * for the caller if a more appropriate Context can be determined. 033 * @return The LoggerContext. 034 */ 035 LoggerContext getContext(String fqcn, ClassLoader loader, boolean currentContext); 036 037 /** 038 * Creates a {@link LoggerContext}. 039 * 040 * @param fqcn The fully qualified class name of the caller. 041 * @param loader The ClassLoader to use or null. 042 * @param currentContext If true returns the current Context, if false returns the Context appropriate 043 * for the caller if a more appropriate Context can be determined. 044 * @param configLocation The location of the configuration for the LoggerContext. 045 * @return The LoggerContext. 046 */ 047 LoggerContext getContext(String fqcn, ClassLoader loader, boolean currentContext, URI configLocation); 048 }