Name: rmT116609 Date: 02/25/2003


DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The Logger class lacks convenience methods with the name of the standard levels and that also take an exception as parameter. Acording to the javadoc, these methods only exists with a simple parameter:

 Finally, there are a set of convenience methods for use in the very simplest cases, when a developer simply wants to log a simple string at a given log level. These methods are named after the standard Level names ("severe", "warning", "info", etc.) and take a single argument, a message string.


It would be really helpful though if they were overriden to receive an exception too.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
expected: methods

severe( String msg, Throwable t )
warning( String msg, Throwable t )
info( String msg, Throwable t )
fine( String msg, Throwable t )
finer( String msg, Throwable t )
finest( String msg, Throwable t )
config( String msg, Throwable t )

CUSTOMER WORKAROUND :
The work around is to use the normal log method, which is not useful. For instance, instead of:

logger.warning( "database error", exc );


it is necessary to code:

logger.log( java.util.logging.Level.WARNING, "database error", exc );

I know there is a throwing method that does something similar, but that's not the same, as this method will always use the level FINER.
(Review ID: 181775)
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