Hi,
I'm trying to write my own appender. The initial idea is to link into
various other systems and tie up all of the systemlogging into a single
system (Log4J).
I wrote a class that extended AppenderSkeleton, but I'm getting some strange
errors from DomConfigurator when trying it out.
What I get is:
C:\Projects\bin>test
log4j: Threshold ="null".
log4j: Level value for root is [DEBUG].
log4j: root level set to DEBUG
log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [[%-5p] [%d{DATE}] [%C.%M:%L]
- %m%n].
log4j: Adding appender named [CONSOLE] to category [root].
log4j: Class name: [com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender]
log4j:ERROR Could not create an Appender. Reported error follows.
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator
can not access a member of class com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender with
modifiers ""
at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:57)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:300)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:259)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseAppender(DOMConfigurator.java:164)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByName(DOMConfigurator.java
:140)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByReference(DOMConfigurator
.java:153)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseChildrenOfLoggerElement(DOMConfigu
rator.java:415)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseRoot(DOMConfigurator.java:384)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parse(DOMConfigurator.java:790)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:673)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:616)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:602)
at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.
java:460)
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:113)
at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:94)
at com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender.main(TestAppender.java:40)
log4j:ERROR Could not parse input source [org.xml.sax.InputSource@ef5502].
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:389)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByName(DOMConfigurator.java
:141)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.findAppenderByReference(DOMConfigurator
.java:153)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseChildrenOfLoggerElement(DOMConfigu
rator.java:415)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parseRoot(DOMConfigurator.java:384)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.parse(DOMConfigurator.java:790)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:673)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:616)
at
org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java:602)
at
org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.
java:460)
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:113)
at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:94)
at com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender.main(TestAppender.java:40)
[DEBUG] [06 Feb 2003 14:35:51,868]
[com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender.main:41] - Debug Test Message
[DEBUG] [06 Feb 2003 14:35:51,888]
[com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender.main:42] - Debug Test Message
[DEBUG] [06 Feb 2003 14:35:51,919]
[com.syntegra.logging.TestAppender.main:43] - Debug Test Message
Press any key to continue . . .
Someone must have seen this in the process of writing their own appender (or
extending an appender). Do you know what causes it?
The only thing I can think of is that my custom appender is seperate from
the log4j jar, and there might be a security issue (with ClassLoaders
loading across jars).
I will continue to investigate, but in the mean time, if anyone knows
anything then it would be really appreciated.
Regards
Peter
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