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Mikael Ståldal commented on LOG4J2-1531:
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I think that this is a misuse of the {{@Plugin}} mechanism, it is designed for
configuration files rather than programmatic configuration.
If we want rich programmatic configuration, I think we should bypass the
reflection based {{@Plugin}} mechanism altogether.
What about overloading the add methods in {{ConfigurationBuilder}} to also take
a programmaticly constructed Filter, Layout, Appender instances? You can then
create ad-hoc Filters, Layouts, Appenders only for this purpose, and they
should not need to have any annotations.
We can also create some Single Abstract Method abstract Filters, Layouts,
Appenders for this purpuse to make it possible to use Java 8 lambdas
conveniently.
> Change attribute and component values from String to Object
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LOG4J2-1531
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1531
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.6.2
> Reporter: Roger Kapsi
> Attachments: log4j2-1531-1.0.patch
>
>
> I was looking into creating a ConfigurationFactory/Builder that is backed by
> a Clojure DSL. It works rather beautifully until I tried to create a filter
> that is backed by a Clojure function. There is literally no way to pass
> arbitrary objects into a PluginFactory. All component values and attributes
> are assumed to be Strings.
> {code:java}
> (configuration
> (appender "stdout" "CONSOLE"
> (layout "PatternLayout"
> (attribute "pattern" "%d [%t] %-5level: %msg%n"))
> (filter "ClojureFilter"
> ;; This LoC doesn't work: addAttribute(key, value)
> ;; will store the toString() of the value. Bummer.
> ;; I'd the so easy and beautiful if it didn't.
> (attribute "fn" (fn [logger & more] (println logger)))))
>
> (logger "TestLogger" Level/INFO
> (appender-ref "rolling")
> (attribute "additivity" false))
> (root-logger Level/DEBUG
> (appender-ref "rolling")))
> {code}
> {code:java}
> @Plugin(name = "ClojureFilter", category = Node.CATEGORY, elementType =
> Filter.ELEMENT_TYPE, printObject = true)
> class ClojureFilter extends AbstractFilter {
> @PluginFactory
> public static ClojureFilter createFilter(
> @PluginAttribute("fn") IFn fn, ...) {
> return new ClojureFilter(fn, ...);
> }
> }
> {code}
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