[stringtemplate-interest] Logging framework?

[Terence Parr]

Hi Barrie. Did java -v help? Guess that only helps with loading classes not other things via the class path. What information ended up being helpful to you?

Ter
On Apr 14, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Barrie Treloar wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Sam Harwell
> <sharwell at pixelminegames.com> wrote:
>> Ter is going to have to answer this fully, but from what I've seen these
>> messages are generally in place for the development of ST itself. Currently
>> you can provide a custom implementation of STErrorListener or ErrorManager
>> to handle compilation and runtime messages for ST users.
> 
> Got one of those :)
> 
> My main problem was that moving from ST 3 to ST 4 wasn't a simple
> "flick the switch" and I ran into problems that were not easily
> diagnosable without access to the code.
> 
> Perhaps its the idiotic way I'm invoking ST, ala Maven -> Ant ->
> Javascript and where input attributes are in a single JSON file and
> templates are located on the classpath and which template to invoke is
> passed to Javascript via Ant parameters.
> I'll swear, with hand on heart, that what I am doing is sane.
> 
> But because of this, I found that templates weren't being located.
> Even with STGroup.verbose = true I didn't get enough information to
> find the answer.
> 
> In the end I think it was a simple problem, something like I was
> asking it to load the template "MyTemplate.st" when I shouldn't have
> been including the .st suffix.
> 
> If I can contribute to the code so that this sort of problem is better
> diagnosed and this save someone else (or even me when I come back to
> this project six months from now) I will be a happy man.
> 
> I have a personal aversion to things like STGroup.verbose for
> debugging, but I'll swallow that if that's what Ter wants.
> If I can get some guidance on how these extra debug/info statements
> can be incorporated then I can do it in the "blessed way"
> 
> Cheers.
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