How to change root logging level programmatically for logback

Question

I have the following logback.xml file:

Answer 1

using logback 1.1.3 I had to do the following (Scala code):

import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory    
...
val root: Logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(org.slf4j.Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME).asInstanceOf[Logger]