Hi Ralph, We have actually tried log4j2, but unfortunately with that also we could not meet our requirements
We are trying a JSON log using rolling file appender based on both time and size but we are facing below challenges 1. Apache log4j2 default roll over implementation adds time stamp to log file name while saving and closing, while our requirement is to add time stamp to file name at the time of file creation. For this we implemented our own rollover strategy. But that was not a complete solution since first file name was saved in rolling file appender without time stamp and to change that we extended "AbstractOutputStreamAppender" to create our own RollingFileAppender (but most of code in it is from Apache, except what we had to modify to set first file name with time stamp). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30059333/log4j2-rolling-appender-filename-sliding-according-to-pattern http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14862770/log4j2-assigning-file-appender-filename-at-runtime 2. Above lead to mismatch between the type of parameters in various other classes' methods where default Apache classes' types were expected but we were using our own implementation. So we had to use source code for such classes as is and just replace parameters' types from default to our implemented classes. 3. By default JSON Layout from Apache log4j2 has a non resolved defect which does not write a valid JSON. Log entries do not have a comma between then which results in invalid JSON. To rectify this we implemented our own layout. This again has most of the code from Apache but few changes here and there to get comma at start of each entry except first. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-908 4. We had to customize header and footer values as per our requirement, since default in Apache default header is "[" and footer is "]". While we needed more information in header section. 5. With Apache log4j2's default behavior for time based rollover duration's unit was determined by file pattern. We had to make duration time unit independent of file pattern because with default behavior if a user wanted time stamp in file name till mili seconds then even file rollover would happen in mili seconds which is not desired. And if user wanted hourly or daily roll over then file stamp could only be used till date or hour. To be able to specify duration in a definite unit (minutes in our case) we had to implement our own PatternProcessor. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-573 6. We needed to add some custom log fields in JSON logs for which we had to write our own LogEntry and MessageFactory. All above needed to write own classes with most functionality copied from Apache which means we could not achieve above with just extending the Apache classes. We had to make source code changes which we want to avoid. Do you have any suggestion to overcome above without having to fork code of Log4j2 ? We did not find any solution to above so we came back to Log4j1. Is there a way round to get footer in Log4j1 or Log4j2, with above requirements, without having to change source code ? -Thanks & Regards, Anshu Garg Platform Technology Center, India From: Ralph Goers <[email protected]> To: Log4J Users List <[email protected]> Date: 01/05/2016 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Using log4j1.2.17 foter is not getting added to each log file in rollingfileappender Please see https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_logging_services_project_announces < https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache_logging_services_project_announces >. Ralph > On Jan 4, 2016, at 11:14 PM, Anshu Garg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We have extended patternlayout to set custom footer and header. Now when > we use this pattern in rolling file appender footer is only added to last > log file generated while header is added to all files. Our requirement is > to have footer also added to files created. Any suggestion? Here is the > snippet. > > Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("myLogger"); > CustomPattern pattern = new CustomPattern(); > pattern.setHeader("HeaderText"); > pattern.setFooter("FooterText"); > rollingFileAppender.setLayout(pattern); > > -Thanks & Regards, > Anshu Garg > Platform Technology Center, India >
