Is it possible to modify those Layouts to use yours instead? I’d prefer not to break existing applications.
Ralph > On Jun 15, 2020, at 11:36 AM, Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I want to go forward and delete log4j-layout-jackson-* modules from > the master. This will effectively remove JsonLayout, XmlLayout, and > YamlLayout. Given these changes break backward compatibility, shall I > introduce these changes to a new release-3.x branch? Maybe this is a > good moment to discuss how we think about maintaining these modules in > the future. > > For the records, I think Jackson serialized LogEvent layouts are not > really practical due to a severe behaviour: stack traces are > serialized as nested documents. Eventually these layouts need to be > persisted somewhere and none of the document stores that I know of > support such deeply nested schemas. > > Kind regards. >
