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Jan Alsenz commented on LOG4J2-100:
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Hello!
Maybe I can help out with a use-case:
I was recently looking for an secure audit-logging facility for Java (something
like http://www.schneier.com/paper-secure-logs.html ) and didn't come up with
anything useful, so I am now considering building a Log4j 2 plugin to do it.
The requirements match the one mentioned here pretty closely: the message
MAC/Encryption must be done only once, or the hash chain breaks and it is
relatively expensive.
Since I want to be able to output both, encrypted and unencrypted log-entries,
both versions must be communicated to appenders (conversions) saving the logs.
I'm currently investigating using custom Message objects to do this, but am not
yet sure if it will work as expected.
> Allow Log4jLogEvent serialization with subclasses
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>
> Key: LOG4J2-100
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-100
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Appenders, Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0-beta2
> Reporter: Das Archive
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: patch
> Attachments: allow_log_event_subclass_serialization.patch,
> ClassChangingAppender.java
>
>
> Hello!
> I am working on an extension which requires adding content to log events. As
> the method of adding it to the mdc has quite some overhead and the data I
> want to add is not really context-related, I was looking for an alternative
> and thought about subclassing Log4jLogEvent.
> But as AsynchAppender uses the Log4jLogEvent serialize/deserialize methods
> this didn't work.
> So I extended the serialize/deserialize methods to also work with subclasses.
> I'll quickly explain the the changes in the patch (in order):
> Log4jLogEvent.java:
> - not related to the improvement: ndc is never written
> - added a clone constructor to allow easy creation of subclasses Events based
> on Log4jLogEvents
> - make "serialize" a dynamic method as we always have an Event to serialize
> and it allows overwriting the method in subclasses
> - make use of the existing "readResolve" method instead of rinventing the weel
> - LogEventProxy private -> protected to allow subclassing this inner class in
> subclasses
> - change all instance field from private to protected to make life easier in
> subclasses
> - I didn't see a reason why "readResolve" should return an Object instead of
> "Log4jLogEvent"
> AsynchAppender.java:
> - this is actually the only change necessary to make the changes work with
> the existing code-base
> The only instance where subclassing still doesn't work (i.e. the subclass is
> removed) is in the MapRewritePolicy, but I don't think this will be a big
> issue and apart from adding a function to allow changing the Map in
> Log4jLogEvent I couldn't think of a way to solve this.
> Please note, that I haven't had the time to actually test the modified code
> yet!
> Best Regards,
> Das
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