Adding, Editing, and Removing Log
Formatters
Use
This procedure describes how you can manage log formatters using the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
Prerequisites
● An installed and running SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
● An already created EAR project. For more information about how you can create an EAR project, see Creating Enterprise Application Projects.
Procedure
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1. In the J2EE Explorer tab, choose your EAR project.
2. From the context menu, choose New → SAP logging configuration.
The log-configuration.xml appears in the project tree.
3. Choose the Log Formatter tab from the right-hand pane.
Adding a New Formatter
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1. Choose the Log Formatters folder.
2. Choose Add. The new formatter appears in the Log Formatters tree.
3. Choose the newly created log formatter.
Several fields appear on the right-hand side of the Log Formatter tab. Use them to specify the parameters of the new formatter.
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a. In the Log Formatter Name field, specify the formatter name.
b. In the Log Formatter Pattern field, configure this formatter with a custom pattern.
The pattern enables you to specify the message data fields with placeholders of the form %[[-]<width>[-]]<type>.
c. Select the formatter type using the Reference target type drop-down list:
i. ListFormatter – formats a log record, which is ready to be transferred to and processed further by another application.
ii. TraceFormatter – formats logs with no need to specify a pattern.
iii. XMLFormatter – formats log records as XML elements.
4. Choose Save.
Editing a Fomatter
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1. Select the formatter you want to edit.
2. Use the fields in the right of the Log Formatter tab to edit the content.
3. Choose Save.
Removing a Formatter
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1. Select the formatter you want to remove.
2. Choose Remove.
3. Choose Save.