If you've got some instructions on how to even get an Android project up and running, getting some test code to play with would certainly help. Long ago when I tried debugging some Android issues with Log4j, I couldn't even get that far. :/
On 8 July 2017 at 17:31, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick follow up to note that with 2.8.2, using log4j-api does not cause > problems but then adding log4j-core causes the app to fail to start. So I > definitively see an Android epic for 2.10. Maybe this is when we want to > split up log4j-core. > > Gary > > On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > So here I am with my family our of town on a weekend, and I thought I'd > > give Log4j on Android a try. > > > > The first thing I run into is: > > > > FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. > > > > * What went wrong: > > Execution failed for task ':Application:transformResourcesWithMergeJav > > aResForDebug'. > > > com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: > > com.android.builder.packaging.DuplicateFileException: Duplicate files > > copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE > > File1: C:\Users\ggregory\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\ > > org.apache.logging.log4j\log4j-core\2.8.2\979fc0cf8460302e4ffbfe38c1b66a > > 99450b0bb7\log4j-core-2.8.2.jar > > File2: C:\Users\ggregory\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\ > > org.apache.logging.log4j\log4j-api\2.8.2\e590eeb783348ce8ddef205b82127f > > 9084d82bf3\log4j-api-2.8.2.jar > > > > > > * Try: > > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or > > --debug option to get more log output. > > > > BUILD FAILED > > > > Total time: 1.995 secs > > > > which is solved by: > > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37586800/android- > > gradle-duplicate-files-copied-in-apk-meta-inf-license-txt > > > > Which means I have to add this to my build: > > > > packagingOptions { > > exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES' > > exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' > > } > > > > I wonder if we should generate these files pretending we are in an uber > jar, either: > > > > - with the project name in the name like META-INF/log4j2.LICENSE > > > > - with maven AID in the name like META-INF/log4j-api.LICENSE > > > > - with maven coords in the name like META-INF/org.apache.logging. > log4j-log4j-api.LICENSE > > > > As an aside files like LICENSE and NOTICE do not have .txt extensions > which is lame IMO. > > > > Ignore and do nothing? Thoughts? > > > > Gary > > > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
