+1 to making the change and updating the docs to reflect only the new log
levels.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:45 AM Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> Geode, before using log4j for logging has implemented its own LogWriters
> and logLevels. Geode log levels has values like "finest, finer, fine,
> config, info, warning, error, severe".  We've moved away from using these
> log writers to favor using log4j logging. So, mostly, geode logs have log4j
> log statements with levels like "fatal, error, warn, info, debug".
>
> But by examining our existing commands that has log-level options,
> specifically "start server", "start locator", "alter runtime", "change
> log-level", these commands are still accepting log-levels with geode log
> levels, and under the cover, it has a mapping to the log4j levels. Since we
> are moving away from geode's own logging, I would like to propose changing
> these commands to use log4j log levels explicitly.
>
> To avoid breaking existing commands, we can provide a mapping to the log4j
> levels after user provides an "old" log level, but at least I would like to
> have the auto complete start showing the log4j levels instead of the geode
> log levels and move towards getting rid of these old levels completely.
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jinmei
>

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