AFK, sorry for the top-post. Have you looked at our unit tests? There might
be something there to help see what the usage pattern is for JNDI.
Gary
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 06:02 Alban Hertroys <
alban.hertr...@apollovredestein.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're having a lot of trouble getting the JDBCAppender to write to our
> PostgreSQL database. There's probably a configuration error somewhere, but
> we haven't been able to find it. And I have been searching and trying for
> several days now, with no progress at all.
> Even though we specify a connection URL in the JDNI source (see below), it
> always ends with the JDBCAppender complaining that:
> java.sql.SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for
> connect URL 'null'
>
> The Appender should write the data to our database at server "foobar",
> database "logging-tst". Using the same credentials in SquirrelSQL, with
> the same JDBC driver, I can connect to that database and query the table
> specified in the log4j.xml (schema: "logging", table: "usage"; names being
> case-insensitive).
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Environment:
> - Centos 7
> - Apache Tomcat 8.5.32
> - log4j-2.11
>
> We created a servlet HTTP filter into a JAR, compiled against:
> WEB-INF/lib:
> log4j-api-2.11.0.jar log4j-core-2.11.0.jar
> servlet-api.jar
>
> This servlet put()'s certain fields into the ThreadContext, which we then
> attempt to access through %X{...} in the log4j2.xml, appending those
> fields as a
> row to an existing table in our database.
> We had this set-up working previously with log4j-1.something in an MS SQL
> '05
> DB, all on Windows 2003 server (which we are migrating away from due to
> performance issues).
>
> Files within the web application:
> WEB-INF/lib/
> log4j-1.2-api-2.11.0.jar log4j-api-2.11.0.jar
> log4j-core-2.11.0.jar log4j-jcl-2.11.0.jar log4j-jul-2.11.0.jar
> log4j-slf4j-impl-2.11.0.jar log4j-web-2.11.0.jar
> postgresql-jdbc.jar
>
>
> META-INF/context.xml:
> ---------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <context>
> <resource
> name="jdbc/loggingtst"
> auth="Container"
> type="javax.sql.DataSource"
> username="*****"
> password="*****"
> driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
> url="jdbc:postgresql://foobar:5432/logging-tst"
> maxTotal="20"
> maxIdle="10"
> />
> </context>
>
>
> WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.xml:
> ---------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <Configuration status="WARN">
> ...
> <Appenders>
> ...
> <JDBC name="DBAppender" tableName="logging.usage">
> <DataSource jndiName="java:/comp/env/jdbc/loggingtst"/>
> <Column name="servername" pattern="%X{servername}"/>
> <Column name="fex" pattern="%X{focexec}"/>
> <Column name="parameters" pattern="%X{parameters}"/>
> <Column name="username" pattern="%X{username}"/>
> <Column name="duration" pattern="%X{duration}"/>
> <Column name="user_agent" pattern="%X{user-agent}"/>
> </JDBC>
> </Appenders>
> <Loggers>
> ...
> <Logger name="LogFilter" level="info" additivity="false">
> <AppenderRef ref="DBAppender"/>
> </Logger>
>
> <Root level="error">
> <AppenderRef ref="sysout" />
> </Root>
> </Loggers>
>
> </Configuration>
>
>
> WEB-INF/web.xml:
> ----------------
> ...
> <resource-ref>
> <description>PostgreSQL logging table</description>
> <res-ref-name>jdbc/loggingtst</res-ref-name>
> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
> <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
> </resource-ref>
> ...
>
> With this, catalina.out contains:
>
> 2019-12-09 17:38:16,460 localhost-startStop-1 ERROR JdbcDatabaseManager
> JdbcManager{name=FexAppender, bufferSize=0, tableName=logging.usage,
> columnConfigs=[{ name=servername, layout=%X{servername}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }, { name=fex, layout=%X{focexec}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }, { name=parameters, layout=%X{parameters}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }, { name=username, layout=%X{username}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }, { name=duration, layout=%X{duration}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }, { name=user_agent, layout=%X{user-agent}, literal=null,
> timestamp=false }], columnMappings=[]} Could not perform database startup
> operations: java.sql.SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class ''
> for connect URL 'null' java.sql.SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of
> class '' for connect URL 'null'
> at
>
> org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:2186)
> at
>
> org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:2066)
> at
>
> org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1525)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.jdbc.DataSourceConnectionSource.getConnection(DataSourceConnectionSource.java:51)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.jdbc.JdbcDatabaseManager.startupInternal(JdbcDatabaseManager.java:85)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseManager.startup(AbstractDatabaseManager.java:81)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.AbstractDatabaseAppender.start(AbstractDatabaseAppender.java:106)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:265)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:547)
> at
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:263)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:240)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator.initialize(Configurator.java:158)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jWebInitializerImpl.initializeNonJndi(Log4jWebInitializerImpl.java:168)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jWebInitializerImpl.start(Log4jWebInitializerImpl.java:110)
> at
>
> org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletContainerInitializer.onStartup(Log4jServletContainerInitializer.java:57)
> at
>
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5245)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
> at
>
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:754)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:730)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
> at
>
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:629)
> at
>
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1839)
> at
> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
> at
>
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
> at
>
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.postgresql.Driver.parseURL(Driver.java:551)
> at org.postgresql.Driver.acceptsURL(Driver.java:472)
> at java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(DriverManager.java:299)
> at
>
> org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:2171)
> ... 26 more
>
> (Ignore below company statement)
>
>
>
> Alban Hertroys
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