Oh that explains it, thanks for the info!
On 22 September 2016 at 10:21, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
wrote:
> PatternLayout defaults to implicitly add %ex or one of its variations to
> your pattern if you don’t specify it. To disable exception logging you have
> to use %noex.
>
> Ralph
>
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 6:55 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I usually don't even include %exception in my pattern layouts for some
> reason, probably because of the double logging. So I'd go with (1) as well.
>
> On 22 September 2016 at 02:59, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The method
>> org.apache.logging.log4j.web.appender.ServletAppender.append(LogEvent)
>> is defined as:
>>
>> @Override
>> public void append(final LogEvent event) {
>> servletContext.log(((AbstractStringLayout)
>> getLayout()).toSerializable(event));
>> }
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> @Override
>> public void append(final LogEvent event) {
>> servletContext.log(((AbstractStringLayout)
>> getLayout()).toSerializable(event)*, event.getThrown()*);
>> }
>>
>> Which does not give the best information we have to the servlet context
>> logging.
>>
>> The tricky part is that to avoid logging the exception twice like in our
>> test org.apache.logging.log4j.web.ServletAppenderTest. To avoid the
>> double logging, we could (1) document not using a %exception in the pattern
>> layout.
>>
>> That or (yikes) (2) provide a variation of the toSerializable(event) like
>> toSerializable(event, false), where the boolean is an ignoreException
>> parameter. It seems there are plenty of places where exceptions are treated
>> specially already, this would be another.
>>
>> I like (1) better because it is simpler.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Gary
>>
>>
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