Close the file associated with this Appender
Set the conduit
Return the conduit
Interface for all logging layout instances
Return the mask used to identify this Appender. The mask is used to figure out whether an appender has already been invoked for a particular logger.
Return the name of this Appender.
Append a message to the output.
Return the current Level setting
Return the current Level setting
Static method to return a mask for identifying the Appender. Each Appender class should have a unique fingerprint so that we can figure out which ones have been invoked for a given event. A bitmask is a simple an efficient way to do that.
Set the current layout to be that of the argument, or the generic layout where the argument is null
Return the current Layout
Attach another appender to this one
Return the next appender in the list
Close this appender. This would be used for file, sockets, and such like.
Base class for file appenders