To elaborate on Josef's suggestion - you can use a RewriteAppender. The RewriteAppender will forward events to an appender after allowing the RewritePolicy to modify the event. Your logic to remove the field from the message would be provided by your own RewritePolicy implementation.
JavaDoc here (part of the 'receivers' companion): http://logging.apache.org/log4j/companions/receivers/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/rewrite/package-summary.html Scott On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Stadelmann Josef < [email protected]> wrote: > Or you may have to write your own filter to filter-out unwanted messages to > get to your appender. > Josef > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen [mailto:[email protected]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. November 2010 21:58 > An: Log4J Users List > Betreff: Re: Omit xml part > > Den 02/11/10 10.25, Alexander Curvers skrev: > > Hello, > > > > i send some binary data in xml messages with my webservices.. I log > > all communication for debugging purposes. The problem is the binary > > value gets logged as well making the log very big.. I want to log the > > rest of the xml but just not the one field/property containing the > > binary data.. can i configure Log4j to just not log that line/property > > of the xml message? > > Not immediately, but you can use the XSLT implementation available in > the Java Runtime to remove the binary value from your XML before logging > it. > > -- > Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "...plus... Tubular Bells!" > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
