As I am experiencing now in a different stack, too much is better than too little ;-)
Are you thinking that the stack traces make it overwhelming? Or the messages not clear enough? Gary On May 3, 2017 3:23 AM, "Mikael Ståldal" <[email protected]> wrote: What is an appender supposed to do when it cannot be created due to the supplied configuration being invalid? I tried to throw IllegalArgumentException and ConfigurationException, but in both cases I get a bit too much error logging: 2017-05-03 12:17:36,757 main ERROR Unable to inject fields into builder class for plugin type class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpAppender, element Http. org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationException: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: htt at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpManager.<init>( HttpManager.java:44) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpAppender$Builder. build(HttpAppender.java:61) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpAppender$Builder. build(HttpAppender.java:46) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build( PluginBuilder.java:122) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:952) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:892) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:884) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure( AbstractConfiguration.java:508) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize( AbstractConfiguration.java:232) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. start(AbstractConfiguration.java:244) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration( LoggerContext.java:545) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:261) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext( Log4jContextFactory.java:239) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:158) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:131) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:101) Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: htt at java.base/java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:634) at java.base/java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:523) at java.base/java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:470) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpManager.<init>( HttpManager.java:42) ... 31 more 2017-05-03 12:17:36,764 main ERROR Unable to invoke factory method in class class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpAppender for element Http. java.lang.IllegalStateException: No factory method found for class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.HttpAppender at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder. findFactoryMethod(PluginBuilder.java:224) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build( PluginBuilder.java:130) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:952) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:892) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:884) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure( AbstractConfiguration.java:508) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize( AbstractConfiguration.java:232) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration. start(AbstractConfiguration.java:244) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration( LoggerContext.java:545) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:261) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext( Log4jContextFactory.java:239) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:158) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:131) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator. initialize(Configurator.java:101) -- [image: MagineTV] *Mikael Ståldal* Senior software developer *Magine TV* [email protected] Grev Turegatan 3 | 114 46 Stockholm, Sweden | www.magine.com Privileged and/or Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such a person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email.
