1 /* 2 * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 3 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 4 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 5 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 6 * 7 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 8 * 9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 10 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 11 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 12 * implied. 13 * 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 package org.apache.log.output.io.rotate; 18 19 import java.io.File; 20 21 /** 22 * Strategy for naming log files. 23 * For a given base file name an implementation calculates 24 * the real file name. 25 * 26 * @author <a HREF="mailto:bh22351@i-one.at">Bernhard Huber</a> 27 * @author Peter Donald 28 */ 29 public interface FileStrategy 30 { 31 /** 32 * Get the next log file to rotate to. 33 * 34 * @return the file to rotate to 35 */ 36 File nextFile(); 37 } 38 39 40