You can call the getSource() method of the LogEvent and it will return the StackTraceElement of the caller.
Ralph > On Nov 27, 2017, at 7:22 PM, 代超 <daichao...@163.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > Nowadays I am upgrading the log component. I used to use the log4j and > customize our own appender by extending the org.apache.log4j.AppenderSkeleton > in order to sending log message to the Loghub server. Considering the higher > performance, we decided to upgrade the log component to log4j2. In oder to > customize our own log4j2 appender, we extend the class > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractAppender, but I found there is > no way to occupy the location information without specifying a > location-related patterns( %C or $class > <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.2/manual/layouts.html#PatternClass>, > %F or %file > <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.2/manual/layouts.html#PatternFile>, > %l or %location > <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.2/manual/layouts.html#PatternLocation>, > %L or %line > <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.2/manual/layouts.html#PatternLine>, > %M or %method > <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.2/manual/layouts.html#PatternMethod>). > When I use log4j, it was easy to get location information by calling > 'org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent#getLocationInformation'. So I want to ask > that is there a way to get location information from log4j2's > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LogEvent? > > Best wishes! > > >
