You need to click the red text in the "Create" button, not the drop down arrow.
>From a high level you want to do something like this: c1 = load config from XML file 1 (but do not apply the c1 configuration) c2 = load config from XML file 2 (but do not apply the c2 configuration) c3 = c1 + c2 (but do not apply the c3 configuration) write c3 to disk right? sounds reasonable. Dare I mention... XSL? [Ducks under flying tomatoes.] Gary On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:41 AM, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > I don't think I'm able to do so. Although I set up an account on the JIRA > and have logged in, the only thing I'm allowed to "Create" is a "Service > Desk Request". There is nothing there about reporting a bug, requesting a > feature, etc. > > CompositeConfiguration does not help either. My use case doesn't seem to > be supported. I don't want to programmatically create a configuration. I > want to combine configurations and output the combined config to disk. > Then that can be passed in as the new configuration. > > The only thing that can generate XML is a ConfigurationBuilder. But there > is no way to transfer loaded Configurtations to a Builder nor as there a > way to generate XML from a built configuration. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:52 AM > To: Log4J Users List <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Copying appenders and loggers from a confgiruation to a > builder > > Please feel free to record your feature request in JIRA: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2 > > Gary > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:47 AM, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > > > Thanks, that almost works for me, and will have to do, I suppose. The > > problem is that I was hoping to be able to load each subconfig in > > first, filtering in any property definitions, which would then lead to > > writable output that would not contain properties, but their expanded > > values. It would seem that with this approach, it would almost be > > better to not use properties at all in the subconfigs. > > > > I guess this would have to be a feature request, but in the meantime I > > might give CompositeConfiguration a try. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Sicker [mailto:boa...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:34 AM > > To: Log4J Users List <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: Copying appenders and loggers from a confgiruation to a > > builder > > > > I don't believe there is an API in ConfigurationBuilder that uses > > actual plugin objects. That would certainly be a new feature. However, > > you did mention combining configuration files which is already > > implemented through composite configuration: > > http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html# > > CompositeConfiguration > > > > On 17 November 2016 at 09:29, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to construct a program that basically reads a bunch of > > > log4j2 configuration files and combines them into one, writing this > > > back to disk using the new > > > ConfigurationBuilder.writeXmlConfiguration(OutputStream) > > > method. > > > > > > But I run up against what seems to me to be a gap in the API unless > > > I am missing something: > > > Having created a ConfigurationBuilder for the destination file and > > > having read one of the to-be-combined configuration files into a > > > Configuration object, there appears to be nothing in the > > > ConfigurationBuilder interface that would allow, say, one of the > > > appenders from the read-in configuration to be copied, as a whole > > > object,into the builder, short of deconstructing it down to its > > constituent elements and adding them one by one. > > > > > > Is there a way to copy an appender from one configuration to another > > > without drilling down into all its constituent parts? And > > > similarly, a way to copy a logger from one configuration to another > > > without drilling down to its constituent parts? 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