This is included as an improvement in Log4j2 2.6: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1237
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Kamal Mettananda <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > This is my first email, so please raise if I have not correctly understood > the usage of the header attribute. > > When I add a text to the header attribute of PatternLayout inside Console > appender, the header will not end with a new line hence the first log line > will also be using the same line as the header line; but this is not the > case for footer attribute. > > Example output: > My Header in Log2016-03-22 23:23:48,487 [main] INFO > org.logging.learn.log4j.Main - some log1 > 2016-03-22 23:23:48,487 [main] INFO org.logging.learn.log4j.Main - some > log2 > Footer > > Below is the sample of my log4j2.xml > > <Configuration status="WARN"> > <Appenders> > <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT"> > <PatternLayout pattern="%d [%t] %-5level %logger - %msg%n" header="My > Header in Log" footer="Footer"/> > </Console> > </Appenders> > <Loggers> > <Root level="info"> > <AppenderRef ref="Console"/> > </Root> > </Loggers> > </Configuration> > > May be there is a way to enable a new line via for the header? > > When I looked at the > code, org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager actually > does not append a new line after the header; may be a simple fix can be > made there? (Not exactly sure whether I was looking at the correct > location, please point out if I am incorrect). > > if (writeHeader && layout != null) { > final byte[] header = layout.getHeader(); > if (header != null) { > try { > this.os.write(header, 0, header.length); > } catch (final IOException e) { > logError("unable to write header", e); > } > } > } > > Thanks
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