+++ /dev/null
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * 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.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.log4j.varia;
-
-import org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton;
-import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent;
-
-/**
- * A NullAppender merely exists, it never outputs a message to any
- * device.
- * @author Ceki Gülc¨
- */
-public class NullAppender extends AppenderSkeleton {
-
- private static NullAppender instance = new NullAppender();
-
- public NullAppender() {
- }
-
- /**
- * There are no options to acticate.
- * */
- public void activateOptions() {
- }
-
- /**
- * Whenever you can, use this method to retreive an instance instead
- * of instantiating a new one with <code>new</code>.
- * @deprecated Use getNullAppender instead. getInstance should have been static.
- * */
- public NullAppender getInstance() {
- return instance;
- }
-
- /**
- * Whenever you can, use this method to retreive an instance instead
- * of instantiating a new one with <code>new</code>.
- * */
- public static NullAppender getNullAppender() {
- return instance;
- }
-
- public void close() {
- }
-
- /**
- * Does not do anything.
- * */
- public void doAppend(LoggingEvent event) {
- }
-
- /**
- * Does not do anything.
- * */
- protected void append(LoggingEvent event) {
- }
-
- /**
- * NullAppenders do not need a layout.
- * */
- public boolean requiresLayout() {
- return false;
- }
-}