[Issue2281] The core.Logger#setLevel method should work like Configurator#setLevel() (#2289)

* [Issue2281]  The core.Logger#setLevel method should work like
Configurator#setLevel #2281

Do for this module what we did for log4j-1.2-api

* Update log4j-jul/src/test/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/jul/test/CoreLoggerTest.java

Co-authored-by: Piotr P. Karwasz <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Piotr P. Karwasz <[email protected]>

Author: garydgregory

log4j-jul/src/main/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/jul/CoreLogger.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator;
 
 /**
  * Log4j Core implementation of the JUL {@link Logger} class. <strong>Note that this implementation does
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ public class CoreLogger extends ApiLogger {
     @Override
     public void setLevel(final Level level) throws SecurityException {
         super.doSetLevel(level); // checks permissions
-        logger.setLevel(LevelTranslator.toLevel(level));
+        Configurator.setLevel(logger, LevelTranslator.toLevel(level));
     }
 
     /**

log4j-jul/src/test/java/org/apache/logging/log4j/jul/test/CoreLoggerTest.java

@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
 
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ public static void tearDownClass() {
 
     @Before
     public void setUp() throws Exception {
+        LogManager.getLogManager().reset();
         logger = Logger.getLogger(LOGGER_NAME);
         logger.setFilter(null);
         assertThat(logger.getLevel(), equalTo(Level.FINE));
@@ -100,6 +103,38 @@ public void testSetLevel() throws Exception {
         assertThat(childLogger.isLoggable(Level.ALL), is(false));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testSetLevelIssue2281() {
+        final Logger a = Logger.getLogger("a");
+        final Logger a_b = Logger.getLogger("a.b");
+        final Logger a_b_c = Logger.getLogger("a.b.c");
+        // test default for this test
+        assertEquals(Level.INFO, a.getLevel());
+        assertEquals(Level.INFO, a_b.getLevel());
+        assertEquals(Level.INFO, a_b_c.getLevel());
+        // all levels
+        final Level[] levels = new Level[] {
+            Level.OFF,
+            Level.SEVERE,
+            Level.WARNING,
+            Level.INFO,
+            Level.CONFIG,
+            Level.FINE,
+            Level.FINER,
+            Level.FINEST,
+            Level.ALL
+        };
+        for (int i = 0; i < levels.length - 1; i++) {
+            final Level level = levels[i];
+            final Level nextLevel = levels[i + 1];
+            a.setLevel(level);
+            assertEquals(level, a.getLevel());
+            assertTrue(a.isLoggable(level) && !a.isLoggable(nextLevel));
+            assertTrue(a_b.isLoggable(level) && !a.isLoggable(nextLevel));
+            assertTrue(a_b_c.isLoggable(level) && !a.isLoggable(nextLevel));
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testSetLevelToNull() throws Exception {
         final Logger childLogger = Logger.getLogger(LOGGER_NAME + ".NullChild");

src/changelog/.2.x.x/2282_fix_jul_set_level.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.2.xsd"
+       type="fixed">
+  <issue id="2282" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/issues/2282"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">
+    Fix the behavior of `CoreLogger#setLevel` in the log4j-jul module.
+  </description>
+</entry>