[FIXED] How to use tinylog in Eclipse plugin

Issue

I am writing an Eclipse plugin and want to use tinylog in my plugin code. I tried this:

1). modified Eclipse config file (eclipse.ini) to add this line: -Dtinylog.configuration=C:\eclipse-cpp-2018-09-win32-x86_64\eclipse\tinylog.properties

2). content of tinylog.properties:

writer          = file
writer.level    = debug              
writer.file     = C:\eclipse-cpp-2018-09-win32-x86_64\eclipse\log.txt
writer.charset  = UTF-8             
writer.append   = true 
writer.buffered = true

After launching Eclipse and run my plugin, I couldn't see log.txt

BTW, my tinylog version is of 1.3.6

Solution

You are using tinylog 1 with a configuration for tinylog 2. The correct configuration for tinylog 1.3.6 would be:

tinylog.writer          = file
tinylog.writer.level    = debug  
tinylog.writer.filename = C:\eclipse-cpp-2018-09-win32-x86_64\eclipse\log.txt
tinylog.writer.buffered = true
tinylog.writer.append   = true

In tinylog 1.3.6, the charset cannot be defined in the configuration. Instead, tinylog 1 will use the default charset for your system. The manual for tinylog 1 can be found here: https://tinylog.org/v1/configuration

Update: I just uploaded a working minimal example project on GitHub: https://github.com/pmwmedia/tinylog-eclipse-plugin-example. It contains an Eclipse plug-in that uses tinylog 1.3.6 as logging framework.

Answered By - Martin
Answer Checked By - David Marino (JavaFixing Volunteer)