Grails: Is there a debug flag I can check?

Question

I have a few log.debugs() that I don't want to process (since they are heavy) unless the app is currently in debug mode (not production).

Is there a way to check if the grails app is currently in debug mode/development mode?

Answer 1

in the config.groovy the environments are defined.

you can specify what you want the log configuration to be based on the environment the application in running in

environments {
    development {
        log4j = {
          // determine what appenders are logging in development...
        }
    }
    production {
        log4j = {
          // determine what appenders are logging in production...
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

You can test if the current environment is dev (for example) using the following:

import grails.util.Environment

if (Environment.currentEnvironment == Environment.DEVELOPMENT ) {
    // Do your dev logging here
}