what do you guys think of creating a kotlin-logging package that depends on log4j2 and has a useful ...

# kotlin-logging

[christophsturm]

what do you guys think of creating a kotlin-logging package that depends on log4j2 and has a useful default config?

[oshai]

not sure what you mean. can you explain?

[christophsturm]

in my build file i have this lines corresponding to logging:

implementation("io.github.microutils:kotlin-logging:2.0.4")
    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:$log4j2Version")
    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:$log4j2Version")
    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-jul:$log4j2Version")
    implementation("org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j18-impl:$log4j2Version")

[christophsturm]

its pretty hard to get right.

[christophsturm]

i think it would be great to have an opinionated gradle dependency that is sufficient to get decent logging without many pitfalls

[oshai]

ok, but you still need the xml. Maybe an example (in a blogpost or wiki) is enough?

[christophsturm]

You could do without the xml and configure via Kotlin code. And even offer an Kotlin api that makes configuration easy. But I never got configuration via Kotlin code working.