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Scott Deboy updated LOG4J2-155: ------------------------------- Summary: add getFormat to Layout (was: Re-add getContentType, add getFormat to Layout) > add getFormat to Layout > ----------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-155 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-155 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Scott Deboy > > The different Layout implementations don't expose the contentType previously > available in log4j. HTMLLayout has a 'dead' contentType field, but that's it. > It would be useful to expose the content type (text/plain, text/html, > text/xml) along with a information about the format. > If the content type is text/plain, exposing the layout format as a conversion > pattern would work fine. > If the content type is text/html or text/xml we could expose something else > (or null). > My primary interest is adding the ability to 'discover' the file-based > logging configurations in order to support them via Chainsaw and multicast > DNS. > If all Layouts supporting text/plain content types exposed their format as a > conversion pattern, and the file-based appenders (optionally) provided the > ability to advertise their configuration, the files could be remotely tailed > without the far endpoint even knowing anything about the file configuration. > For an example, see how multicast appenders are exposed via > zeroconf/multicast dns in log4j 1.x in activateOptions - something very > similar could be done with contenttype and format properties in a > fileappender with a layout. > if (advertiseViaMulticastDNS) { > Map properties = new HashMap(); > properties.put("multicastAddress", remoteHost); > zeroConf = new ZeroConfSupport(ZONE, port, getName(), properties); > zeroConf.advertise(); > } -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org