Eclipse console timestamp plugin? - eclipse

I was wondering if anyone's aware of a plugin for eclipse which will just put a simple timestamp on each line of console output.
I've had a look around at some other questions which have answers detailing how to enable timestamps on the output through the code itself, but it'd be nice to just have a print of the current system time for each line of output for any application I decide to run without requiring code edits.
Surely it's a pretty simple feature? Am I missing something blindingly obvious?
Edited to add: I'm using Eclipse Kepler.

The way I see it , you have two possibilities.
Possibility One
Make user of any of the logging frameworks out there. Like slf4j, log4j and logback .
Possibility Two
You won't be able to achieve it via the System.out.println(), but you can write up a custom printer function that does the job for you. Something like
//Set any date format you would like here
private static DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy MMM dd HH:mm:ss");
//Make calls to the method with the message that you want to print
private static void customDisplay(String message){
System.out.println("["+dateFormat.format(new Date())+"] " + message);
}
So now instead of making a call to System.out.println(), make a call to your method
customDisplay("Some message that will be displayed with timestamp")
Edit
As far I know, we can not configure much about the eclipse's console output except for setting up the scheme and some colour look and feel.

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Printing to console in VDM++?

How do I print text or values to the console to validate that my model is working correctly?
I would like to do something like this:
class Main
operations
public Run: () ==> ()
Run() ==
print "Text"
print mon.Func()
end Main
It seems to be possible, but I just cant figure out how to do it.
You need to use the VDM IO library. There are a couple of operations that do what you want - println (for printing fixed values) and printf, which has parameter substitution. So you would call IO`println("hello"), for example.
In the latest release of Overture and VDMJ, you can also use a VDM annotation to print values without adding anything to the "content" of the specification itself. Annotations are rather added as comments. See #Printf.
Nick Battle answered my question but for other beginners to VDM, there is missing a detail to his answer, how to include libraries.
Before one can use the IO library, you first have to include it.
I am using Overture and to include libraries into your project, you have to right-click on the project in the side menu and press New > Add VDM Library.
You can then choose which libraries you want to include in a menu that pops up.
Here you choose IO.
After this you should be able to print out values using the IO`println(val) function.

How to debug long scripts in Chrome?

I have a page which has a script tag. The script inside that tag is very long, but I would like to debug it. Unfortunately, I cannot scroll to the relevant place in the Console, because after a certain length the script is simply not displayed, see the attachment:
As you can see, it ends with
return !filt...
The actual function looks like this:
this.validate = function(filters) {
for (var filter in filters) {
if (!innerValidation(filters[filter].filterType, filters[filter].evaluatedValue, data[filters[filter].key])) {
return filters[filter].isOr;
}
}
return !filters[filter].isOr;
};
Question: Why does Chrome truncate my script and how could that be changed?
Note, that I know I could load it from an external file, but I am actually interested to know the cause of this behavior.
The display of the script is truncated but it still parses and runs the code correctly. You should be able to view the full code in the Sources tab under the relevant host and put breakpoints in there.
If you have a long script, it is best to make that into its own file instead. This will provide you with the best debugging experience.
The Elements panel truncates large scripts to help keep things fast and there is no way to undo this. Therefore, you would need to use some external debugging tools to try and get at this, but even then most of them work best with external script files as well.
Inline scripts should be very short if ever used. For any decent sized chunks of scripting, allocate that into its own file.

problems with prefs.get and set ImageJ Macro

I'm trying to write a macro to save preferences and read them after closing and reopening ImageJ.
The saving works, but the macro isn't reading the file. Moreover when I try to use one of these two lines an error occurs that the variable "Prefs" is unknown.
int myNumber = Prefs.get("my.persistent.number", 0);
Prefs.savePreferences();
What am I doing wrong? please help me :-)
The ImageJ macro language itself does not support storing custom preferences. (Only the set of built-in options (accessible via Edit > Options in the menu) can be saved, restored and adjusted.) You need to resort to calling the Java class via call("ij.Prefs.get", "my.persistent.number", "0");.
The following ImageJ macro works in an up-to-date Fiji/ImageJ installation:
myNumber = call("ij.Prefs.get", "my.persistent.number", "0");
print(myNumber);
call("ij.Prefs.set", "my.persistent.number", 3);
In the first run, it prints 0; every following run will print 3; after restarting Fiji, it will print 3 again. In case it does not work for you even after updating to the newest version, please report a bug via Help > Report a bug, which will also submit essential information about your installation to the developers to help them fix the issue.
Using one of the many scripting languages however, you can access the ij.Prefs java class directly, as you are trying to do it. Just do not forget to import the class before using it. This is an example Javascript:
importClass(Packages.ij.Prefs);
myNumber = Prefs.get("my.persistent.number", 0);
Prefs.set("my.persistent.number", myNumber);
Hope that helps.

Perl parsing a log4j log [duplicate]

We have several applications that use log4j for logging. I need to get a log4j parser working so we can combine multiple log files and run automated analysis on them. I'm not looking to reinvent the wheel, so can someone point me to a decent pre-existing parser? I do have the log4j conversion pattern if that helps.
If not, I'll have to roll our own.
I didn't realize that Log4J ships with an XML appender.
Solution was: specify an XML appender in the logging configuration file, include that output XML file as an entity into a well formed XML file, then parse the XML using your favorite technique.
The other methods had the following limitations:
Apache Chainsaw - not automated enough
jdbc - poor performance in a high performance distributed app
You can use OtrosLogViewer with batch processing. You have to:
Define you log format, you can use Log4j pattern layout parser or Log4j XmlLayout
Create java class that implements LogDataParsedListener. Method public void logDataParsed(LogData data, BatchProcessingContext context) will be called on every parsed log event.
Create jar
Run OtrosLogViewer with specifying your log processing jar, LogDataParsedListener implementation and log files.
What you are looking for is called SawMill, or something like it.
Log4j log files aren't really suitable for parsing, they're too complex and unstructured. There are third party tools that can do it, I believe (e.g. Sawmill).
If you need to perform automated, custom analysis of the logs, you should consider logging to a database, and analysing that. JDBC ships with the JdbcAppender which appends all messages to a database of your choice, but it has performance implications, and it's a bit flaky. There are other, similar, alternatives on the interweb, though (like this one).
You -can- use Log4j's Chainsaw V2 to process the various log files and collect them into one table, and either output those events as xml or use Chainsaw's built-in expression-based filtering, searching & colorizing support to slice & dice the logs.
Steps:
- Start Chainsaw V2
- Create a chainsaw configuration file by copying the example configuration file available from the Welcome tab - define one LogFilePatternReceiver 'plugin' entry for each log file that you want to process
- Start Chainsaw with that configuration
- Each log file will end up as a separate tab in the UI
- Pause the chainsaw-log tab and clear the events from that tab
- Create a new tab which aggregates the events from the various tabs by going to the 'view, crate custom expression logpanel' menu item and enter 'level >= DEBUG' in the box. It will create a new tab containing events from all of the tabs with level >= debug (which is why you cleared the chainsaw-log tab).
You can get an overview of the expression syntax used to filter, colorize and search from the tutorial (available from the Help menu).
If you don't want to use Chainsaw, you can do something similar - start a simple app that doesn't log but loads a log4j.xml config file with the 'plugin' entries you defined for the Chainsaw configuration, but also define a FileAppender with an xmllayout - all of the events received by the 'receivers' will be sent to the single appender.

Query with toLocalizedTime in Plone

I'm using toLocalizedTime to output a date, as below
<span tal:content="python:here.toLocalisedTime(date.get('start_date'))"/>
This outputs eg. 2007/08/02, I'm just curious as to how one would alter the output so that it reads 02/08/2007
I'm not having much luck finding much info on toLocalizedTime, would someone point me in the right direction?
This depends on whether you have English selected as the site language (Site Setup >> Language). If so, then the default settings are used. You can change the defaults by dropping down into the ZMI, then into 'portal_properties', then 'site_properties'. The fields to change are either 'localTimeFormat' or 'localLongTimeFormat' depending on whether you pass in 'long_format=1' to the toLocalisedTime function.
If on the other hand, you have translations set up, the format may instead be pulled from the translation file for the locale selected. I'm not sure what is the easy way to change the format in this case (other than switching the site back to English). I guess you can register your own translation file but I've never needed to do that so you're going to have to look up the details.
Date string formatting follows the Python rules (http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime).
Perhaps even more detail than you need:
here.toLocalizedTime()
is defined in the plone browser view at...
CMFPlone/browser/ploneview.py
which looks up the 'translation_service' utility, to call its 'ulocalized_time' function, defined at...
CMFPlone/TranslationServiceTool.py
which itself calls the 'ulocalized_time' function defined at...
CMFPlone/i18nl10n.py
As always, you can learn interesting things by grepping the source code ;-)
For an up to date answer for Plone 4.3 (after going through the source code)
These fields are now in the registry found at:
http://localhost:8080/yoursite/portal_registry
Then filter on "i18nl10n", which should give you the 4 fields you need to change.