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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-486:
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Joe, I'm beginning to think there is some sort of communication problem here. I
mentioned XMLLayout, etc to illustrate that we know using the header and footer
works properly to do what you are trying to accomplish, not to tell you that
you should use one of those layouts. If you wanted to add custom info after
the begin XML tag that the existing header generates then you would want to
override the XMLLayout, but you have only mentioned your desire to use the
PatternLayout so that is what I am suggesting needs to be customized to meet
your needs.
Gary, Being able to supply a header and footer file is a good idea, although
it wouldn't allow for dynamic content unless the data in the file is
interpolated (which I think should be done).
> RollingFile Appender - add custom info at the start of each logfile
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LOG4J2-486
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-486
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: Appenders
> Affects Versions: 2.0-beta9
> Environment: Java 1.7, Linux
> Reporter: Joe Merten
> Attachments: MyRolloverStrategy.java, log4j2.xml
>
>
> I post this question here because of a hint of Remko Popma.
> See also:
> *
> http://apache-logging.6191.n7.nabble.com/log4j2-getting-started-amp-rolling-files-tt8406.html#a42402
> *
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20819376/log4j2-rollingfile-appender-add-custom-info-at-the-start-of-each-logfile
> I want to add some custom info at the top of each logfile, like the version
> string of my application, the application uptime and the system uptime. And
> even writing some »bye, bye / eof« to the bottom of the just closed logfile
> would also be fine.
> Because there is no appropriate hook or callback to get notified when the
> RollingFileAppander is creating / has created a new file, so that I can put
> my things at first into these new logfile, I tried to extend
> DefaultRolloverStrategy. But currently, I stuck at some points.
> Seems that I have to deal with {{@Plugin}} and {{@PluginFactory}}. My try
> with the attached log4j2.xml and MyRolloverStrategy.java compiles without
> errors and warnings. But when I start the application, I get this error
> message:
> {{2014-01-05 23:22:05,876 ERROR RollingFile contains an invalid element or
> attribute "MyRolloverStrategy"}}
> And then the next step would be: "how to write to the logfiles within my
> rollover method?"
> log4j2.xml :
> {code}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Configuration>
> <Properties>
> <Property name="projectPrefix">Tts</Property>
> <Property name="rawPattern">%d %-5p [%t] %C{2} (%F:%L) - %m%n</Property>
> <Property name="coloredPattern">%d %highlight{%-5p}{FATAL=bright red,
> ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=cyan, DEBUG=green, TRACE=bright blue}
> %style{[%t] %C{2} (%F:%L) -}{bright,black} %m%n</Property>
> <Property name="coloredShortPattern">%d %highlight{%-5p}{FATAL=bright
> red, ERROR=red, WARN=yellow, INFO=cyan, DEBUG=green, TRACE=bright blue}
> %style{[%t] -}{bright,black} %m%n</Property>
> <Property name="fileName">Log/${projectPrefix}.log</Property>
> <Property name="filePattern">Log/${projectPrefix}-%i.log</Property>
> </Properties>
> <Appenders>
> <Console name="Stdout" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
> <PatternLayout pattern="${coloredPattern}"/>
> </Console>
> <RollingFile name="Logfile" fileName="${fileName}"
> filePattern="${filePattern}">
> <PatternLayout pattern="${rawPattern}"/>
> <Policies>
> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="16 MB"/>
> </Policies>
> <eeo.toolbox.MyRolloverStrategy fileIndex="min" max="16"/>
> </RollingFile>
> </Appenders>
> <Loggers>
> <Root level="info">
> <AppenderRef ref="Stdout"/>
> <AppenderRef ref="Logfile"/>
> </Root>
> </Loggers>
> </Configuration>
> {code}
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