@Log (and friends)

Captain's Log, stardate 24435.7: "What was that line again?"

Overview

NEW in lombok 0.10: You can annotate any class with a log annotation to let lombok generate a logger field.
The logger is named log and the field's type depends on which logger you have selected.

There are six choices available:

@CommonsLog: Creates private static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log log = org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogExample.class);
@Log: Creates private static final java.util.logging.Logger log = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(LogExample.class.getName());
@Log4j: Creates private static final org.apache.log4j.Logger log = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(LogExample.class);
@Log4j2: Creates private static final org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger log = org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogExample.class);
@Slf4j: Creates private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LogExample.class);
@XSlf4j: Creates private static final org.slf4j.ext.XLogger log = org.slf4j.ext.XLoggerFactory.getXLogger(LogExample.class);

By default, the topic (or name) of the logger will be the class name of the class annotated with the @Log annotation. This can be customised by specifying the topic parameter. For example: @XSlf4j(topic="reporting").

With Lombok

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Vanilla Java

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Small print

If a field called log already exists, a warning will be emitted and no code will be generated.

A future feature of lombok's diverse log annotations is to find calls to the logger field and, if the chosen logging framework supports it and the log level can be compile-time determined from the log call, guard it with an if statement. This way if the log statement ends up being ignored, the potentially expensive calculation of the log string is avoided entirely. This does mean that you should NOT put any side-effects in the expression that you log.