I think MessageLayout is a special case as it only returns the message portion of the LogEvent. Most Layouts return all of the LogEvent attributes. Even so, you could have AbstractLayout<LogEventProxy> if you wanted the serialized version of the LogEvent. It can also be anything else that implements Serializable.
Ralph > On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:06 AM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doesn't that depend on the generic type T of the Layout<T>? > For example, MessageLayout extends AbstractLayout<Message> returns a > Message instance. > You could return a ByteBuffer, but generally for an efficient binary layout > I would look at the encode method instead. > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How is a binary layout (extending AbstractLayout) supposed to implement >> the toSerializable method in the Layout interface? >> >> Why is that method there? >> >>
