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Robert Schaft commented on LOG4J2-435:
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Based on my other post I could come up with one solution:
# All the {{<IfFileName>}}, {{<IfFileSize>}} and accumulators are regarded as
conditions. But please don't use the {{If}} prefix, because they are boolean
conditions instead of void expressions (like the java {{if}}).
# Additionally you provide two or three combining conditions:
## An {{<Or>}} element (you could call it {{<AnyOf>}} if there are class name
clashes). It contains one or more conditions. All of them are evaluated (no
shortcut operation).
## An {{<And>}} element (you could call it {{<AllOf>}} if there are class name
clashes). It contains one or more conditions. All of them are evaluated (no
shortcut operation).
## A {{<Not>}} element (I can't find usecases for it).
# You need one {{<ThenIf>}}, which is the shortcut operator.
# You require below the {{<Delete>}}, {{<ThenIf>}} and {{<Not>}} exactly one
condition (which could be the combining condition). This avoids confusion how
the conditions are combined.
# You allow below the {{<Delete>}} or {{<ThenIf>}} at most one {{<ThenIf>}}.
Only if no {{<ThenIf>}} is provided, all files matching the condition are
deleted. This ensures, that there is only one logical position for the implicit
{{delete()}} per {{<Delete>}} element.
The result would be for my 3rd case:
{code:xml}
<Delete>
<And>
<FileName glob="debug-*.log" />
<LastModified age="30d" />
</And>
<ThenIf>
<Or>
<AccumulatedFileSize exceeds="100 mb" />
<AccumulatedFileCount exceeds="10" />
</Or>
</ThenIf>
</Delete>
{code}
Funnily, there is only one solution for the more complex example with combined
accumulators. This is a good indication, that the definition is not redundant:
{code:xml}
<Delete baseDir="logs">
<Or>
<And>
<LastModified age="90d"/>
<FileSize exceeds="100M" />
</And>
<And>
<FileName glob="**/*.log.gz" />
<LastModified age="7dT1h" />
</And>
<And>
<FileName pattern="\d+-\d{2}/app-[/]*-\d+\.log.gz" />
<LastModified age="7d" />
</And>
<LastModified age="180d" />
</Or>
</Delete>
<Delete baseDir="logs">
<Or>
<FileName pattern="\d+-\d{2}/app-[/]*-\d+\.log.gz" />
<And>
<FileName glob="**" />
<LastModified age="30d" />
</And>
</Or>
<ThenIf>
<Or>
<AccumulatedFileCount exceeds="100" />
<AccumulatedFileSize exceeds="10gb" />
<And>
<AccumulatedFileCount count="90" />
<AccumulatedFileSize exceeds="9gb" />
</And>
</Or>
</ThenIf>
</Delete>
{code}
How do you like that?
> Feature request: auto-delete older log files
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LOG4J2-435
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-435
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Arkin Yetis
> Assignee: Remko Popma
> Labels: Rollover
> Fix For: 2.5
>
> Attachments: LimitingRolloverStrategy.java, SizeParser.java
>
>
> Original description:
> {quote}
> DefaultRolloverStrategy max attribute only applies if you have a %i in the
> file pattern. This request is to enhance DefaultRolloverStrategy or another
> appropriate component to allow a max number of files limit to apply across
> days/months/years when a filePattern includes a date pattern.
> {quote}
> ----
> One of the most requested features is to add the ability to Log4j to "clean
> up" older log files. This usually means deleting these files, although it
> could also mean moving them to a different location, or some combination of
> these.
> Users have different requirements for selecting the files to clean up. A
> common request is the ability to keep the last X number of log files. This
> works well if rollover is only date based but may give undesired results with
> size based rollover.
> Another factor to consider is that the directory containing the log files may
> contain the log files for multiple appenders, or even files unrelated to
> logging.
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