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module com { module sun { module star { module logging {


/** provides possibilities to send LogRecords to an arbitrary output
    channel.

    @see XLogger

    @since OOo 2.3
 */
interface XLogHandler
{
    /** allows life time control for the handler

        <p>Disposing the handler effectively means closing the channel
        to which the handler forwards the log records.
    */
    interface ::com::sun::star::lang::XComponent;

    /** specifies MIME charset name for the encoding to be used by this handler

        <p>It depends on the concrete handler implementation whether or not this
        parameter is needed.<p>

        @see http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
    */
    [attribute] string Encoding;

    /** specifies the formatter to be used by this handler.
    */
    [attribute] XLogFormatter   Formatter;

    /** specifies the log level of this handler

        <p>Different handlers can have different log levels, which again might be
        different from the log level of the XLogger for which the handlers
        are used.</p>
    */
    [attribute] long    Level;

    /** flushes all buffered output of the handler

        <p>Log handlers are allowed to buffer their output. Upon <code>flush</code>
        being called, they must flush all their buffers.</p>
    */
    void    flush();

    /** publish the given log record at the handler's output channel.

        @return
            `TRUE` if and only if the record was actually published. A handler
            will not publish a record if its log level doesn't meet the handler's
            log level, if the record is filtered, or if any other handler-specified
            restrictions apply.
    */
    boolean publish( [in] LogRecord Record );
};


}; }; }; };


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