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`setCategory` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `<ball_loggermanager.h>`

Return or create the category named `categoryName`.


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xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category] const*
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Return or create the category and optionally link a holder.


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xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category] const*
xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerManager/setCategory-03.adoc[setCategory](
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/CategoryHolder.adoc[CategoryHolder]* categoryHolder,
    char const* categoryName);
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Create or update a category with the specified threshold levels.


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xref:BloombergLP/ball/Category.adoc[Category]*
xref:BloombergLP/ball/LoggerManager/setCategory-07e.adoc[setCategory](
    char const* categoryName,
    int recordLevel,
    int passLevel,
    int triggerLevel,
    int triggerAllLevel);
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== Return Value

* address of the category named `categoryName`, or of the _Default_ _Category_
* address of the category if created or thresholds reset, and 0 otherwise

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *categoryName*
| name of the category to return or create
| *categoryHolder*
| optional holder to link to the returned category
| *recordLevel*
| record threshold level
| *passLevel*
| pass threshold level
| *triggerLevel*
| trigger threshold level
| *triggerAllLevel*
| trigger‐all threshold level
|===


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