Reg:printing log contents

Question

Hello all iam creating a debug log file for my program.. debug will be based on the level set which will be taken as a input from the user ..when i try to print the contents to a file gen.out i could not print anything ..file is empty..can some one pls help me ..there is no error thrown by the program
// my main propram
public class ff {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    PrintStream out = System.out;
    int dbgLevel = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
    String path ="gen.out";
    debug.setLevel(dbgLevel);
    try {
        debug.setLogFile(path);
    catch(Exception e1) {
      e1.printStackTrace();
debug.msg(0, "Printing contents to a file  ");
if (Debug.allowed(0)) {
                Debug.msg(0, "1.printing th econtents );
//debug class
public class debug {
  private static int ourLevel = 0;
  private static FileWriter c_writer;
  private static final String k_nl = System.getProperty("line.separator");
    public static void msg(int reqLevel, String debugMessage) {
    if (reqLevel <= ourLevel) {
      String s = "DBG(" + reqLevel + ") " + getTS() + " " + debugMessage + k_nl;
      if (c_writer == null) {
        System.out.println("writer is null "+c_writer.toString());
        System.err.println(s);
        System.err.flush();
      else {
          System.out.println("writer is not null "+c_writer.toString());
          try {
                     c_writer.write(s);
        catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
      } // if (c_writer...) else ...
    } // if (reqLevel...
  } // msg()
public static void setLogFile(String path) throws IOException {
    c_writer = new FileWriter(path);
public static void setLevel(int l) {
    ourLevel = l;
    public static boolean allowed(int reqLevel) {
    return reqLevel <= ourLevel;
  } file is getting created but its empty ..wat am i doing wrong here .?

Answer 1

Where are you writing to the file? I think you are not including important code.