The best advice I can give you is to look at the existing actions in Log4j-core.
Ralph > On May 18, 2017, at 10:21 PM, Chandra <chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> > wrote: > > Hey Ralph, > > I want to write a custom action as I see it’s not available. I am just > looking for some place to start. > that’s why I asked some kind of doc/overview of the framework that would > quickly get me started. > > > > thanks, > Chandra > > On 19 May 2017, 10:29 AM +0530, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>, > wrote: >> I just updated the stack overflow article Remko mentioned to document the >> improvements that were made in 2.8. That still doesn’t solve your problem, >> but I don’t see why you couldn’t write a custom action. If we can write an >> action to delete the files I don’t see why one couldn’t log the names of the >> files. >> >> Ralph >> >>> On May 18, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Chandra <chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Remko, I see it, the more I dig in the “rollover” strategy, the more I >>> discover of these “subtleties”. >>> is there by any chance a bird’s eye view of the framework? >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> Chandra >>> — >>> PS: btw, “picocli” looks like a good candidate to be used in “jvmTop >>> (https://github.com/tckb/jvmtop)” the original project used “jOpt” >>> >>> >>> >>> On 19 May 2017, 5:25 AM +0530, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com>, wrote: >>>> Some (very early stage) thinking on that topic is here: >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1198 >>>> >>>> This may not be easy because there are quite a few subtleties with >>>> rollovers (search the Log4j2 JIRA for rolling and rollover). >>>> >>>> Remko >>>> >>>> (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info >>>> >>>>> On May 18, 2017, at 22:38, Chandra <chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi guys, >>>>> >>>>> So my requirement is to log the file names of the log files at the time >>>>> of rotation. I came across the `Actions` PluginElement in >>>>> DefaultRolloverStrategy. >>>>> Can this be used for the purpose. I haven’t worked on it and it seems >>>>> there aren’t many good resources for this. Anyone worked on the creating >>>>> custom actions in Rollover strategy. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Chandra >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org
