All,
I'm investigating the minimum effort I need to migrate a web application
from log4j 1.x to 2.x and (as you can see from other posts), I'm running
across a few snags. I'm 100% able to get it to work, but I want to
understand why I haven't been able to get it to work more easily.
Coming from log4j 1.x, it's very easy to miss the *vitally important*
change to configuration file names that requires the number 2 to appear
in there. "properties"-based configuration is still supported, but the
filename needs to be log4j2.properties instead of log4j.properties. (I
see that a system property is available to configure log4j to look for
the old filenames, but system properties aren't a good option in a web
application environment.) I just wanted to say that the documentation
could maybe make this more clear under the "Configuring Log4j 2" section
of the migration guide.
I did the simplest thing I could possibly think of and just
copied/re-named my existing properties file. No errors, but not expected
behavior: my expected log file was not created, and nothing was logged
to the disk. Enabling log4j debugging shows my file being read and
processed, but no appenders or loggers are dumped into the debug log, as
they are when I use a comparable XML-based configuration file.
Note that I changed nothing about my log4j.properties file other than
renaming it, so all the class names for the appenders (e.g. console,
file) and the pattern layout have not changed.
Is there something I am missing in the migration guide that would
explain why I am not getting anything in my log file? I have a very
simple configuration, here. I will first post the properties file
configuration (with a very small change, just the shortened filename):
log4j.rootCategory=INFO,A1
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.A1.file = log4j.log
log4j.appender.A1.encoding=UTF-8
log4j.appender.A1.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.conversionPattern = %d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n
log4j.appender.A1.append = true
# Turn-up the logging level on our code.
log4j.category.[internal package] = ALL
log4j.category.[another internal package] = ALL
#log4j.category.org.apache=ALL
log4j.logger.org.apache.velocity.generic=ALL
And here is the XML file which should be comparable:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration status="INFO">S
<Properties>
<Property name="log-dir" value="[...]" />
</Properties>
<Appenders>
<Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n" />
</Console>
<File name="File" fileName="${log-dir}/log4j.log"
immediateFlush="false" append="true">
<PatternLayout pattern="%d [%t] %-5p %c- %m%n" />
</File>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Root level="debug">
<AppenderRef ref="File"/>
</Root>
<Logger name="[internal package]" level="all" />
<Logger name="[another internal package]" level="all" />
<Logger name="org.apache.velocity.generic" level="all" />
</Loggers>
</Configuration>
The XML works and the properties do not. Can someone help me understand
why not?
I don't see any example properties configurations on the log4j 2 web site.
Thanks,
-chris
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