void parseCategory()

in src/main/java/org/apache/log4j/PropertyConfigurator.java [723:773]
35 lines of code
11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  void parseCategory(Properties props, Logger logger, String optionKey,
		     String loggerName, String value) {

    LogLog.debug("Parsing for [" +loggerName +"] with value=[" + value+"].");
    // We must skip over ',' but not white space
    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(value, ",");

    // If value is not in the form ", appender.." or "", then we should set
    // the level of the loggeregory.

    if(!(value.startsWith(",") || value.equals(""))) {

      // just to be on the safe side...
      if(!st.hasMoreTokens())
	return;

      String levelStr = st.nextToken();
      LogLog.debug("Level token is [" + levelStr + "].");

      // If the level value is inherited, set category level value to
      // null. We also check that the user has not specified inherited for the
      // root category.
      if(INHERITED.equalsIgnoreCase(levelStr) || 
 	                                  NULL.equalsIgnoreCase(levelStr)) {
	if(loggerName.equals(INTERNAL_ROOT_NAME)) {
	  LogLog.warn("The root logger cannot be set to null.");
	} else {
	  logger.setLevel(null);
	}
      } else {
	logger.setLevel(OptionConverter.toLevel(levelStr, (Level) Level.DEBUG));
      }
      LogLog.debug("Category " + loggerName + " set to " + logger.getLevel());
    }

    // Begin by removing all existing appenders.
    logger.removeAllAppenders();

    Appender appender;
    String appenderName;
    while(st.hasMoreTokens()) {
      appenderName = st.nextToken().trim();
      if(appenderName == null || appenderName.equals(","))
	continue;
      LogLog.debug("Parsing appender named \"" + appenderName +"\".");
      appender = parseAppender(props, appenderName);
      if(appender != null) {
	logger.addAppender(appender);
      }
    }
  }