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.
> 


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