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Remko Popma commented on LOG4J2-763:
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My conclusions:
In this particular case the problem seems to be with the test case. Logging
messages with parameters (like {{logger.info("some {} message",
someParameter);}} ) is thread-safe even if the {{someParameter}} object changes
after the logger call.
Other messages can be improved. Especially logging an object directly (like
{{logger.info(someParameter); }} can give unexpected results if the parameter
object changes before the async background thread has written the log message.
Similarly for some other message implementations mentioned above. (We should
also review which fields should be marked {{transient}} on the message classes.)
Apart from that, are there any documentation improvements we can make?
Any tips for using parameterized messages with async logging? I think it should
"just work", but are there any scenarios that fall through the cracks that we
should mention in documentation?
> Async loggers convert message parameters toString at log record writing not
> at log statement execution
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LOG4J2-763
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-763
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.0
> Reporter: Stephen Connolly
>
> http://javaadventure.blogspot.com/2014/07/log4j-20-async-loggers-and-immutability.html
> When using parameterized messages, the toString() method of the log messages
> is not called when the log message is enqueued, rather after the log message
> has been dequeued for writing. If any of the message parameters are mutable,
> they can thus have changed state before the log message is written, thus
> resulting in the logged message content being incorrect.
> From the blog post, code that demonstrates the problem:
> {code}
> import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
> import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
> import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
> public class App {
> private static final AtomicLong value = new AtomicLong();
> public String toString() {
> return Long.toString(value.get());
> }
> public long next() {
> return value.incrementAndGet();
> }
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
> new Thread() {
> final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(App.class);
> final App instance = new App();
> @Override
> public void run() {
> for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
> logger.warn("{} == {}", instance.next(), instance);
> }
> }
> }.start();
> }
> }
> }
> {code}
> Here is the first few lines of logging output
> {code}
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-13] 13 == 13
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,730 WARN t.App [Thread-29] 29 == 29
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-15] 15 == 15
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-6] 6 == 6
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,730 WARN t.App [Thread-30] 30 == 30
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-20] 20 == 20
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-8] 8 == 8
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,730 WARN t.App [Thread-28] 28 == 28
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-19] 19 == 19
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-18] 18 == 18
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,729 WARN t.App [Thread-5] 5 == 6
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,731 WARN t.App [Thread-13] 33 == 37
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,731 WARN t.App [Thread-8] 39 == 39
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,731 WARN t.App [Thread-28] 40 == 41
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,731 WARN t.App [Thread-18] 42 == 43
> 2014-07-28 15:59:45,731 WARN t.App [Thread-5] 43 == 43
> {code}
> To make my previous code work with Asynchronous loggers (other than by fixing
> the mutable state) I would need to log like this:
> {code}
> if (logger.isWarnEnabled()) {
> logger.warn("{} == {}", instance.next(), instance.toString());
> }
> {code}
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