Unrelated to Kotlin itself so maybe OT, but I'm trying to integrate logging into a custom Gradle Plu...

# gradle

[Edoardo Luppi]

Unrelated to Kotlin itself so maybe OT, but I'm trying to integrate logging into a custom Gradle Plugin and it is proving to be difficult.
I can get a logger using the LoggerFactory, but when executing a task, the output I see in the console is SLF4J complaining it can't find an implementation (e.g., SLF4J-Simple).

Is there a plugin I can look at to understand how to properly setup logging?

[Vampire]

You are right, it is off-topic. 🙂
But Gradle should catch all the major logging frameworks, so unless you need a Gradle specific log level just using SLF4J for example should usually be fine.

[Vampire]

But maybe you use a bad version of it. The mechanism of how to catch it changed and maybe Gradle does only support one not both, I don't know.

[Vampire]

But within a task you can also just get a logger from logging or what it was

[Edoardo Luppi]

Thanks! When implementing a custom plugin project (like, a standalone project), should I explicitly require an implementation of SLF4J?

[Edoardo Luppi]

I didn't see anything on the docs. They just tell you to use LoggerFactory.

[Edoardo Luppi]

Ah, a maybe important detail: the logging is done inside of a spawned worker (through the worker API)

[Vampire]

Ah, so not in a task, then yes, just using SLF4J should work as intended afair.

[Vampire]

Either as implementation or maybe better as compileOnly as it should be provided by the runtime already.