Not really I guess? Layout already extends Encoder<LogEvent>, and the only reasonable return value now is String since byte[] is already covered by another method, and ByteBuffer is covered by the Encoder interface. That could further simplify things! — Matt Sicker
> On Jan 11, 2023, at 14:50, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is the generic needed at all? > > Gary > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 12:19 Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote: > >> I’ve opened https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/1199 to handle >> this issue. The vast majority of the changes are from replacing `Layout<? >> extends Serializable` with just `Layout<?>`. Please take a look and provide >> any feedback.
