Yes, and them immediately committed it.  I am -1 on this commit until I get an 
explanation as to why what we currently do isn’t better.

Ralph

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1608 
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1608>
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:boa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Oh that explains it, thanks for the info!
> 
> On 22 September 2016 at 10:21, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com 
> <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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 
>> <mailto: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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