KafkaLog4jAppender with custom layout

[David Arthur]

I'm having trouble getting the KafkaLog4JAppender to honor my custom Log4J 
layout. Here is a snippet form my log4j.xml


  <appender class="kafka.producer.KafkaLog4jAppender" name="kafka">
    <param name="Host" value="localhost"/>
    <param name="Port" value="9092"/>
    <param name="Topic" value="my-topic"/>
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param value="%d{ISO8601} %p %c{2} - %m%n" name="ConversionPattern"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <logger name="my.package">
    <level value="INFO"/>
    <appender-ref ref="kafka"/>
  </logger>

I get the log messages in Kafka, but not with the property formatting. I 
checked out the Scala source and I see where it's checking for a layout:

 override def append(event: LoggingEvent)  {
    val message : String = if( this.layout == null) {
      event.getRenderedMessage
    }
    else this.layout.format(event)
    LogLog.debug("[" + new Date(event.getTimeStamp).toString + "]" + message)
    val messageData : ProducerData[String, String] =
      new ProducerData[String, String](topic, message)
    producer.send(messageData);
  }

I wonder if maybe it should be calling this.getLayout() instead just 
this.layout (maybe log4j is lazy loading things?) N.B., I've also tried the 
same config with a properties file to no avail.

Any help is appreciated. 

-David