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| * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
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| * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
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| * |
| * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
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| */ |
| package org.apache.logging.log4j.spi; |
| |
| import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger; |
| |
| /** |
| * Anchor point for logging implementations. |
| */ |
| public interface LoggerContext { |
| |
| /** |
| * Return a Logger. |
| * @param name The name of the Logger to return. |
| * @return The logger with the specified name. |
| */ |
| Logger getLogger(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * Detect if a Logger with the specified name exists. |
| * @param name The Logger name to search for. |
| * @return true if the Logger exists, false otherwise. |
| */ |
| boolean hasLogger(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * An anchor for some other context, such as a ServletContext. |
| * @return The external context. |
| */ |
| Object getExternalContext(); |
| } |