Chris McGee created LOG4J2-1640: ----------------------------------- Summary: RollingFileAppender with CronTriggeringPolicy broken? Key: LOG4J2-1640 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1640 Project: Log4j 2 Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 2.7 Environment: Mac OS X 10.11.6 running Eclipse Neon 4.6.0 with JDK 1.8.0_74 Reporter: Chris McGee Priority: Blocker
If this isn't actually a bug, then I apologize for reporting it, but I cannot figure out how it could be anything else currently. Full disclosure: I am still a newbie. I've been using the log4j 2.6.x series for a while, but noticed that the CronTriggeringPolicy when used with RollingFileAppender causes that infinite rollover bug. I noted that this bug was to be fixed in 2.7, so I downloaded that the day it was released and replaced the 2.6 version with it. Now, however, without changing anything else in my code nor in my log4j2.xml file, I am getting exceptions regarding them. The stacktrace: {noformat} 2016-10-10 08:26:14,108 main ERROR Unable to inject fields into builder class for plugin type class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender, element RollingFile. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CronTriggeringPolicy.rollover(CronTriggeringPolicy.java:133) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CronTriggeringPolicy.initialize(CronTriggeringPolicy.java:69) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.CompositeTriggeringPolicy.initialize(CompositeTriggeringPolicy.java:52) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager.initialize(RollingFileManager.java:104) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingFileAppender.java:142) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender$Builder.build(RollingFileAppender.java:58) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:122) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:942) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:882) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:874) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:498) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize(AbstractConfiguration.java:227) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:239) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:530) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:603) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:620) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:226) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:242) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:45) at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:174) at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:618) at info.chrismcgee.sky.artdept.ArtDept.<clinit>(ArtDept.java:85) 2016-10-10 08:26:14,112 main ERROR Unable to invoke factory method in class class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender for element RollingFile. java.lang.IllegalStateException: No factory method found for class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.findFactoryMethod(PluginBuilder.java:224) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:130) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:942) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:882) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:874) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:498) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize(AbstractConfiguration.java:227) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:239) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:530) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:603) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:620) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:226) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:242) at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:45) at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:174) at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getLogger(LogManager.java:618) at info.chrismcgee.sky.artdept.ArtDept.<clinit>(ArtDept.java:85) 2016-10-10 08:26:14,113 main ERROR Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. 2016-10-10 08:26:14,117 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "DailyRoll" for logger config "root" {noformat} For reference, the code in my ArtDept.java file on line 85 (as seen in the stacktrace above) is just a simple field declaration & initialization: {code:title=ArtDept.java|borderStyle=solid} static final Logger log = LogManager.getLogger(ArtDept.class.getName()); {code} Finally, for reference, my log4j2.xml file: {code:xml|title=log4j2.xml|borderStyle=solid} <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Configuration status="WARN" monitorInterval="30"> <Properties> <Property name="filename">logs/artdept.log</Property> <Property name="baseDir">/Volumes/ArtDept/ArtDept/Scripts/sky-artdept/logs</Property> </Properties> <Appenders> <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/> </Console> <File name="MyFile" fileName="${filename}"> <PatternLayout> <pattern>%d %p %C{1.} [%t] %m%n</pattern> </PatternLayout> </File> <RollingFile name="DailyRoll" fileName="${baseDir}/${env:USER}/${date:yyyy}/${date:MM} - ${date:MMM}/Launcher.log" filePattern="${baseDir}/${env:USER}/${date:yyyy}/${date:MM} - ${date:MMM}/%d{dd} - Launcher-%i.log"> <PatternLayout> <Pattern>%d %p %C{1.} [%t] %m%n</Pattern> </PatternLayout> <Policies> <CronTriggeringPolicy schedule="0 0 0 * * ?" evaluateOnStartup="true" /> <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="250 MB" /> </Policies> </RollingFile> </Appenders> <Loggers> <Root level="trace"> <AppenderRef ref="DailyRoll"/> </Root> </Loggers> </Configuration> {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org