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Bruce Brouwer commented on LOG4J2-555:
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Would it be crazy to use a Java Proxy to proxy the loggers and have the proxy 
figure out the call stack? This should work fine when you're just dealing with 
the Logger interface. I don't know exactly what kind of performance impact this 
would create. Maybe there would be a way to detect if a logger is using a 
location pattern layout like %C and only proxy it if necessary. 

This wouldn't help for the extended loggers unless they implemented an 
interface. For those it could fall back to using cglib (most likely would be an 
optional dependency)

I don't know if this is worth exploring, but I thought I would throw it out as 
an idea. 

> Location-based functionality broken in AbstractLoggerWrapper subclasses
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-555
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-555
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: API, Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-rc1
>            Reporter: Remko Popma
>            Assignee: Remko Popma
>             Fix For: 2.0-rc2
>
>
> *How to reproduce*
> * Create a custom logger that extends {{AbstractLoggerWrapper}} (or generate 
> one with the tool attached to LOG4J2-519)
> * In the custom logger provide a public method that invokes the {{log(Level, 
> String)}} method
> * Configure a pattern layout that uses location, like %C for the logger FQCN
> * From a sample app, call the public method on your custom logger.
> * The output will show the class name of the custom logger instead of the 
> class name of the calling class in the sample application.
> *Cause*
> {{AbstractLogger}}'s FQCN field is {{static final}} and initialized to 
> {{AbstractLogger.class.getName()}}. Then, in 
> {{Log4jLogEvent#calcLocation()}}, when walking over the stack trace elements, 
> the element _following_ the FQCN is returned. So only loggers that directly 
> subclass from {{AbstractLogger}} will work correctly. Loggers that inherit 
> from {{AbstractLoggerWrapper}} are two levels removed from {{AbstractLogger}} 
> and the {{calcLocation()}} method will not work correctly.
> *Solution*
> I think {{AbstractLogger}}'s FQCN field should be made non-static, and 
> initialized to {{getClass().getName()}} in the constructor of 
> {{AbstractLogger}}. {{Log4jLogEvent#calcLocation()}} can then be modified to 
> return the {{StackElement}} whose class name matches the FQCN, instead of the 
> next element. Location-based functionality should then work for arbitrarily 
> deep subclass hierarchies of AbstractLogger.



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