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Frank Conover commented on LOG4J2-741:
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I am experiencing this issue with 2.6.3 and I tried 2.3. I have a custom plugin
in a jar file. Works fine from eclipse, or a non-jar java app but not as a jar
project. I have packages="... attribute filled out in my log4j2.xml. I added it
to get the custom appender found while running from eclipse. As a non-maven
program using jars which are on the classpath the appender is not found. Is
there another way I should be doing this? Is packages still fixed / or still an
available feature?
Note: If I extract my jars and run, the appender is found.
The stack overflow link in the description sounds like my issue. Do I need to
compile with a certain flag turned on? Generate my jar a certain way?
> Reinstate the package attribute for discovering custom plugins
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>
> Key: LOG4J2-741
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-741
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0-rc2, 2.0
> Reporter: Remko Popma
> Assignee: Remko Popma
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 2.0.1
>
> Attachments: LOG4J2-741-patch.txt
>
>
> Several people reported problems with their custom plugins no longer being
> recognized by log4j2. See LOG4J2-673 and [this StackOverflow
> question|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24918810/log4j2-configuration-will-not-load-custom-pattern-converter].
> Plugins created before the annotation processor was added to log4j2 (all
> plugins created with 2.0-rc1 and earlier) may not have a
> {{META-INF/org/apache/logging/log4j/core/config/plugins/Log4j2Plugins.dat}}
> file.
> Previously plugins without this metadata file could still be found if the
> user specified their custom plugin package(s) in the {{packages}} attribute
> of the {{<Configuration>}} element in their log4j2.xml configuration file.
> However, since 2.0-rc2, the {{packages}} configuration attribute was
> disabled; users may still specify a value, but log4j2 will no longer use this
> value to try to load custom plugins. This causes problems for custom plugins
> built before the annotation processor was added to log4j2, as well as custom
> plugins that are built in an environment where the annotation processor does
> not work (for example, most IDEs require some setting changes to enable
> annotation processing).
> This Jira ticket is to reactivate the packages configuration attribute.
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