Type: Boolean
Availability: Read or write at any time
The formatOutput property of the JadeLog class specifies whether the date, time, process-thread identifier, and selector are output with each message to the log file.
By default, the date, time, process identifier, and thread identifier are output with each message; that is, this property is set to true. The date is output in yyyy/MM/dd format (for example, 2007/05/26) and the time in HH:mm:ss format including milliseconds (for example, 15:01:31.985).
As the date and time formats are fixed, you cannot change either format.
The following example shows messages output to a log file when this property is set to the default value of true.
2007/05/26 05:01:31.985 00f58-b3c MyLogging: starting up 2007/05/26 05:01:31.985 00f58-b3c MyLogging: tracing about to start on a client 2007/05/26 05:01:31.985 00f58-b3c MyLogging: start time: 26 May 2007, 05:01:31 2007/05/26 05:01:34.281 00f58-b3c MyLogging: all done
In the first line of the above example, 00f58 is the operating system process (that is, the JADE node) and b3c is the thread (that is, the JADE process).
The following example shows the same log file data when only messages are output; that is, this property is set to false.
starting up tracing about to start on a client start time: 26 May 2007, 05:01:31 all done