Thank you for your swift response, really appreciate it. Wondering when the 2.14.0 release will come out?
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:59 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > JsonTemplateLayout hasn’t been merged to the release-2.x branch but it > will be so that it can be included in the 2.14.0 release. > > Ralph > > > On Aug 12, 2020, at 7:47 AM, Carter Kozak <cko...@ckozak.net> wrote: > > > > Hi Naz, > > > > Volkan has contributed a fantastic json template layout that I expect > will do what you want, however it has not been released yet. > > https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/335 > > > > This discussion from the mailing list provides several options which may > be relevant to your use case: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r538bb480c6d92813224b6a207e34210cccebc01e8d1781943d0ce32d%40%3Clog4j-user.logging.apache.org%3E > > > >> But my custom json layout doesn't write into a file. Do I have to write > a file appender for that? > > > > Layout implementations can be configured with any appender, the existing > file based appenders > > work with custom layouts. The layout is responsible for converting a > LogEvent into a format (e.g. bytes) that > > can be written to an appender (file, socket, standard out, etc) without > being aware of the appenders > > implementation details. > > > > Best, > > -ck > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020, at 09:56, Naz S wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm trying to use JSON layout for a logging format. When I use the > default > >> JSON Layout, I see that there are some fields which are unnecessary to > me > >> (for example, loggerFqcn, endOfBatch, etc). > >> > >> Then I decided to implement a custom JSON layout. But I see that > >> JacksonFactory is not visible outside the package. Now I get only > necessary > >> fields from LogEvent and generate JSON format using JSON generator. > Every > >> configuration is done by code. But ultimately I want to configure > fields in > >> log4j2.xml file. Any suggestions? > >> > >> Also I would like to write logs into a log file. But my custom json > layout > >> doesn't write into a file. Do I have to write a file appender for that? > >> > >> Many thanks, > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > >
