Daisuke Baba created LOG4J2-462: ----------------------------------- Summary: LevelPatternConverter.format may throw NPE Key: LOG4J2-462 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-462 Project: Log4j 2 Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 2.0-beta9 Environment: java version "1.6.0_65" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)
Reporter: Daisuke Baba I found an issue when enabling asynchronous appenders with `-DLog4jContextSelector=org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerContextSelector` and I also got a workaround to fix it. Note that I invoke LogContext.setConfigLocation() then LogContext.reconfigure() in order to apply log4j2.xml programatically. 1. Stacktrace ... See the bottom of the Description as it is a large portion. 2. Workaround Just to get rid of toString() at line 123 from the following snippet: {code:title=2.0-beta-9.org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.LevelPatternConverter.java|borderStyle=solid} 122 public void format(final LogEvent event, final StringBuilder output) { 123 output.append(levelMap == null ? event.getLevel().toString() : levelMap.get(event.getLevel())); 124 } {code} The workaround is as follows: {code:title=MyWorkaround|borderStyle=solid} 122 public void format(final LogEvent event, final StringBuilder output) { 123 output.append(levelMap == null ? event.getLevel() : levelMap.get(event.getLevel())); 124 } {code} 3. Log4j2.xml {code:title=log4j2.xml snip|borderStyle=solid} <RollingRandomAccessFile name="MySizeRollingLog" fileName="foo.log" filePattern="foo-%d{MM-dd-yyyy}-%i.log.gz"> <PatternLayout pattern="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS z} %-5p [%t] (%F:%L) - [server($${sys:something})]-[%X{Something}]-%m%n" /> <Policies> <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true" /> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="1000KB" /> </Policies> <DefaultRolloverStrategy max="3" /> </RollingRandomAccessFile> {code} I'm not sure why event.getLevel() was null but the workaround works for me. ---- Full stacktrace: 2013-12-05 09:36:58,947 ERROR An exception occurred processing Appender MySizeRollingLog java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.LevelPatternConverter.format(LevelPatternConverter.java:122) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.pattern.PatternFormatter.format(PatternFormatter.java:36) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.toSerializable(PatternLayout.java:167) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.PatternLayout.toSerializable(PatternLayout.java:52) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.AbstractStringLayout.toByteArray(AbstractStringLayout.java:45) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.append(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:111) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.append(RollingRandomAccessFileAppender.java:96) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender(AppenderControl.java:99) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.callAppenders(LoggerConfig.java:425) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerConfig.asyncCallAppenders(AsyncLoggerConfig.java:116) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerConfigHelper$Log4jEventWrapperHandler.onEvent(AsyncLoggerConfigHelper.java:218) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.async.AsyncLoggerConfigHelper$Log4jEventWrapperHandler.onEvent(AsyncLoggerConfigHelper.java:203) at com.lmax.disruptor.BatchEventProcessor.run(BatchEventProcessor.java:133) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:695) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org