I am working on a new Appender and am noticing that the debug output is now far less useful than it used to be. I used to see the factory method being invoked with all of its parameters very nicely formatted. Now I see
2014-06-10 16:02:37,858 DEBUG No compatible method annotated with interface org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginBuilderFactory found in class class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender. 2014-06-10 16:02:37,858 DEBUG Found factory method class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender.public static org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender.createAppender(org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Layout,org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Filter,java.lang.String,java.lang.String). 2014-06-10 16:02:37,864 DEBUG Constructing plugin of type class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender 2014-06-10 16:02:37,864 DEBUG PatternLayout(%m%n) 2014-06-10 16:02:37,864 DEBUG Constructing plugin of type class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender 2014-06-10 16:02:37,865 DEBUG Constructing plugin of type class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender 2014-06-10 16:02:37,865 DEBUG Attribute(name="Servlet") 2014-06-10 16:02:37,865 DEBUG Constructing plugin of type class org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender 2014-06-10 16:02:37,865 DEBUG Null string given to convert. Using default [null]. 2014-06-10 16:02:37,866 DEBUG Attribute(ignoreExceptions="null") This is far more verbose, repetitive, and is nowhere near as clear as it used to be. Can you please get the logging output back to the old format? Also, can we change PatternLayout back to a factory and remove the message about no builder factory being present? Ralph
