org.apache.log.output.io.rotate

Class RevolvingFileStrategy

Implemented Interfaces:
FileStrategy

public class RevolvingFileStrategy
extends java.lang.Object
implements FileStrategy

strategy for naming log files based on appending revolving suffix. If the initial rotation is not specified then the class will attempt to calculate the rotation number via the following algorithm. It will search for the file with the highest number in the rotation. It will then increment its rotation number and use that number. If all files in rotation are present then it will then set the initial rotation to the next rotation after the most recently created file.
Authors:
Avalon Development Team
Bernhard Huber
Peter Donald
David Gray

Constructor Summary

RevolvingFileStrategy(File baseFile, int maxRotations)
Creation of a new instane ofthe revolving file strategy.
RevolvingFileStrategy(File baseFile, int initialRotation, int maxRotations)
Creation of a new instane ofthe revolving file strategy.

Method Summary

int
getCurrentRotation()
Retrieve the current rotation number.
File
nextFile()
Calculate the real file name from the base filename.

Constructor Details

RevolvingFileStrategy

public RevolvingFileStrategy(File baseFile,
                             int maxRotations)
Creation of a new instane ofthe revolving file strategy.
Parameters:
baseFile - the base file
maxRotations - the maximum number of rotations ??

RevolvingFileStrategy

public RevolvingFileStrategy(File baseFile,
                             int initialRotation,
                             int maxRotations)
Creation of a new instane ofthe revolving file strategy.
Parameters:
baseFile - the base file
initialRotation - the number of initial rotations ??
maxRotations - the maximum number of rotations??

Method Details

getCurrentRotation

public int getCurrentRotation()
Retrieve the current rotation number.
Returns:
the current rotation number.

nextFile

public File nextFile()
Calculate the real file name from the base filename.
Specified by:
nextFile in interface FileStrategy
Returns:
File the calculated file name