I just looked at the JDBC unit tests and surprisingly didn’t see any that use a
configuration file.
Ralph
> On Dec 12, 2019, at 7:54 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unit tests in the log4j project. All our components have examples in unit
> tests.
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 04:26 Alban Hertroys <
> alban.hertr...@apollovredestein.com> wrote:
>
>> "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote on 2019-12-11 22:01:54:
>>
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>>> 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.
>>
>> You mean to say I should write some Java code to test the JNDI connection
>> as defined in the Tomcat configuration? Or are the unit tests you refer to
>> existing code that is available somewhere?
>>
>> Either way, I have no idea which unit tests you're referring to? I'm also
>> not quite sure what I'm looking for here, I haven't done this before and I
>> don't write Java code on a regular basis. Just created a few snippets to
>> do small stuff here and there, such as this case where we're wrapping a
>> servlet to have some logging of HTTP context information to a database
>> table.
>>
>> There's no requirement here to do the logging through JNDI either; we used
>> a direct connection through log4j.xml previously and that had some issues
>> (mostly losing connection when the DB server got kicked). JNDI just seemed
>> to be the easiest way to set up a connection pool for the JDBCAppender,
>> but now it's starting to look like JNDI is anything but.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alban.
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
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