3.6. Custom Log
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## 3.6. Custom Log

If none of available logging systems meet your needs, you can configure the logging system with a custom logger. You might use custom logging to integrate with a proprietary logging framework used by some applications servers, or for logging to a graphical component for GUI applications.

A custom logging framework must include an implementation of the `com.solarmetric.log.LogFactory` interface. We present a custom `LogFactory` below.

Example 3.6. Custom Logging Class

    package com.xyz;

    import com.solarmetric.log.*;

    public class CustomLogFactory
        implements LogFactory
    {
        private String _prefix = "CUSTOM LOG";

        public void setPrefix (String prefix)
        {
            _prefix = prefix;
        }

        public Log getLog (String channel)
        {
            // Return a simple extension of AbstractLog that will log
            // everything to the System.err stream. Note that this is
            // roughly equivalent to Kodo's default logging behavior.
            return new AbstractLog ()
            {
                protected boolean isEnabled (short logLevel)
                {
                    // log all levels
                    return true;
                }

                protected void log (short type, String message, Throwable t)
                {
                    // just send everything to System.err
                    System.err.println (_prefix + ": " + type + ": "
                        + message + ": " + t);
                }
            };
        }
    }

To make Kodo use your custom log factory, set the `kodo.Log` configuration property to your factory's full class name. Because this property is a plugin property (see Section 2.5, “Plugin Configuration”), you can also pass parameters to your factory. For example, to use the example factory above and set its prefix to "LOG MSG", you would set the `kodo.Log` property to the following string:

    com.xyz.CustomLogFactory(Prefix="LOG MSG")

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