Annotation processing is a standard feature of the JDK compiler. I don't
know about Eclipse's compiler, but I'd imagine that should support them,
too.


On 1 June 2014 08:12, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:

> Or have eclipse call our annotation processor on demand or on a compile...
> There must be a way to do that...
>
> Gary
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Remko Popma
> Date:06/01/2014 03:00 (GMT-05:00)
> To: Log4J Developers List
> Subject: Re: NPE in RandomAccessFileAppenderTests
>
> I've just set up a recent version of Eclipse and if you make a project a
> Maven project it is possible to run the Maven build from Eclipse. I haven't
> explored this in depth yet. By default Eclipse just compiles the modified
> classes when you save them and does not run a full build, maven or
> otherwise.
>
> It is possible of course to use remote debugging which has the benefit of
> giving you an environment that is closer to what end users see. I also see
> Gary's point of wanting the convenience of being able to quickly run JUnit
> tests from the IDE without going through an 5-8 minute build for every
> minor code change...
>
> I still think configuring the "packages" attribute in the test config
> files gives you the best of both worlds...
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm confused. I thought the changes made to use an annotation processor
>> at compile time meant that the plugins.dat file would be generated then, so
>> the file should be available on the classpath.  Unless, of course, Eclipse
>> is not actually using maven to compile.
>>
>> To be honest I have no idea if this problem exists in IntelliJ as I
>> always compile and test from the command line and use remote debugging. As
>> far as I am concerned that is the only supported configuration.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 31, 2014, at 9:57 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> But isn't that the trade off that was made with the plugin mechanism?
>> Log4j2 will search for plugins in plugins.dat or in configured packages,
>> but for performance reasons it won't search the entire classpath.
>>
>> The plugins.dat file is generated automatically during the build, so when
>> run from the IDE there is no plugins.dat file yet.
>>
>> I see three options (there may be more):
>> 1. We can change the plugin mechanism to facilitate testing from IDEs. No
>> ideas on how, though. (Whatever change we make obviously shouldn't impact
>> external users.)
>> 2. We can manually maintain a plugins.dat file (for the tests?)
>> 3. We can specify "packages" in the test configs.
>>
>> I don't think that last option is that unreasonable, actually.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2014/06/01, at 12:01, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Updating all configuration files to fix IDE development seems wrong. It
>> feels like we have a bug in our test infrastructure.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Remko Popma
>> Date:05/31/2014 21:40 (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Log4J Developers List
>> Subject: Re: NPE in RandomAccessFileAppenderTests
>>
>> Specifying "packages" in config will work in both maven and Eclipse, I
>> think (unless I'm missing something).
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2014/06/01, at 8:33, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> No, but the test should run from Eclipse and Maven just the same. So...
>> now what?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried specifying "packages" in the config file of the test?
>>> Then no plugins.dat is necessary.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 2014/06/01, at 2:44, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> So Eclipse cannot find the plugin dat file then?
>>>
>>> Adding the jar is not going to help if what I am doing is developing
>>> plugins... :-(
>>>
>>> I think there is some odd ball case where Maven copies the plugin dat
>>> file some place and then you do a refresh in Eclipse to pick it up. I've
>>> not found a reliable way to get this to work though.
>>>
>>> This is frustrating...
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see the NullPointerException also when I run the test in Eclipse.
>>>>
>>>> If I revert back to the previous version of
>>>> RandomAccessFileAppenderTest (before conversion to RuleChains) I don't see
>>>> these NPEs.
>>>>
>>>> (However in the previous version the test still fails: [0], [1] and [3]
>>>> cannot find the resulting log file, [2] finds a different log file).
>>>> This last issue has to do with plugins not being found when running
>>>> JUnit tests from Eclipse.
>>>> A simple hack to fix this is to temporarily
>>>> add log4j-core-2.0-rc2-SNAPSHOT.jar to the (end of the) classpath.
>>>> This allows Eclipse to find the plugins and the tests pass.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I said from eclipse: right click on the class, run as, junit test.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original message --------
>>>>> From: Remko Popma
>>>>> Date:05/31/2014 09:30 (GMT-05:00)
>>>>> To: Log4J Developers List
>>>>> Subject: Re: NPE in RandomAccessFileAppenderTests
>>>>>
>>>>> I just updated and ran mvn eclipse package and I did not have any
>>>>> issues. Build success.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll take a look later today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2014/05/31, at 15:40, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I run RandomAccessFileAppenderTests from Eclipse, I get an NPE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone else see this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>
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