You could create your own Layout class. While you loose some of the
flexibility of the PatternLayout class you can perform any message
formatting/encoding. The Layout class takes a LogEvent and returns the
formatted string. It might also be possible to extend the PatternLayout.
Matt
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:57 PM, jm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some functionality I don't know how to implement:
> Right now my big codebase is full of logger.info("a message"); stuff.
> I have a new requirement to format log files in a specific way, for
> instance:
> 20080408-18:57:24|ProcessA.java|23|hostname|this is where the message goes
> As you can see, fields are separated by |, and I have been able to do
> all required by setting some stuff as MDC and by using existing values
> from PatternLayout. The only remaining thing is that in case the %m
> contains a pipe, it must be escaped to \|.
>
> I wish I could do that in a centralized way (maybe even subclassing
> some log4j class) instead of changing all the calls to logger.info()
> to LogUtil.log() and escaping the pipe in the new static method.
>
> is that feasible?
>
> many thanks
> javi
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