I would like to see support for Android, all in our one code base, for now.
Gary On Sep 13, 2017 08:02, "Ralph Goers" <[email protected]> wrote: > We are getting Jira issues about getting log4j to work in Android. At > first, all I thought was required was getting the API to function on top of > Android’s logging system. However, it seems that there are some who want to > use the RollingFileAppender or perhaps other appenders. The issue I have is > that I am pretty sure there are other things inside core that won’t work in > Android, which was why my first attempt was to just get the API working > there. > > Right now there are 8 open issues that mention Android. LOG4J2-1915, > LOG4J2-1920 LOG4J2-1921 all say that 2.8.2 doesn’t work, which was before > the Java 9 support was added. LOG4J2-2042 says 2.9 doesn’t work because of > a dependency on java.lang.management classes. LOG4J2-1920 says it has an > error because the ScriptEngineManager is not available. > > I am not sure how to solve this. We could just say Android is not > supported although that would likely cause problems for a lot of people. We > could only support API integration, as I first tried to do, We could put > in a bunch of code to try to detect android and disable stuff that doesn’t > work there, but that is quite a bit of work and as far as I can tell none > of the committers work with Android. Finally, we could create a > log4j-android that contains the API combined with a minimal version of core. > > Any thoughts on this? > > Ralph >
