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NeuronRobotics / nrjavaserial

A Java Serial Port system. This is a fork of the RXTX project that uses in jar loading of the native code.
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Replace System.out/System.err printing with SLF4J #193

Open MrDOS opened 4 years ago

MrDOS commented 4 years ago

There are a number of places where the library blasts some output directly to stdout or stderr, which is quite impolite for a library. And there are other places where it might be nice to have more debugging statements, but it is impractical to add them given the current inability of end users to suppress their output. @madhephaestus, any objection to me adding a dependency on the SLF4J API and replacing all the current direct output calls with proper logging?

madhephaestus commented 4 years ago

great idea. Something to concider, is there a way to allow the C code to print to Java through the logger? the C level prints were never a good idea

MrDOS commented 4 years ago

I think that's possible. It's certainly possible to call back into Java from JNI code, so as long as the logger can be accessed consistently (e.g., a static log field on the class, as is idiomatic anyway), I think I can rework the existing report_verbose/report_error/report_warning/report functions to call SLF4J.

As I mentioned in #189, I think it's probably more important/I'm more interested in tackling the problem of port locking and its portability. But this will be rattling around in the back of my mind.