src/main/java/org/apache/sling/engine/RequestLog.java

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package org.apache.sling.engine;

import org.osgi.annotation.versioning.ConsumerType;

/**
 * The <code>RequestLog</code> interface defines the API to be implemented by
 * providers of destinations for request log information. To be able to any
 * request log service writing to output type <i>RequestLog Service</i> the
 * respective services must be registered with the OSGi service registry.
 *
 * @deprecated Use the request progress tracker instead.
 */
@Deprecated
@ConsumerType
public interface RequestLog {

    /**
     * The name of the service property which is compared to the name of the
     * RequestLog service to be used to write the log messages (value is
     * "requestlog.name").
     */
    static final String REQUEST_LOG_NAME = "requestlog.name";

    /**
     * Writes the given <code>message</code> to the output destination. For
     * example a file based implementation might write the message into a log
     * file while an implementation supporting Unix <code>syslogd</code> might
     * send the message to a <code>syslogd</code> server.
     *
     * @param message The message to be logged.
     */
    void write(String message);

    /**
     * Closes this request log. This method is called by the request logging
     * infrastructure, when this instance is not used anymore. Hence, this
     * method allows for any cleanup work to be done.
     */
    void close();
}