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Denis Abramov commented on LOG4NET-559: --------------------------------------- If I remove %type from the conversion string everything works again > Custom Appender throws exception to user when I use %type in ConversionPattern > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LOG4NET-559 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-559 > Project: Log4net > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0.7 > Reporter: Denis Abramov > > In my appender I have the following ConversionPattern: > <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> > <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%m%n %type" /> > </layout> > In my Append method, the "RenderLoggingEvent" is throwing the exception below > protected override void Append(LoggingEvent loggingEvent) { > ... > message.ErrorText = Layout == null ? > loggingEvent.RenderedMessage : RenderLoggingEvent(loggingEvent); > } > ... > } > System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code > HResult=-2147467261 > Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object. > Source=log4net > StackTrace: > at > log4net.Layout.Pattern.TypeNamePatternConverter.GetFullyQualifiedName(LoggingEvent > loggingEvent) in > c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Layout\Pattern\TypeNamePatternConverter.cs:line > 51 > at log4net.Layout.Pattern.NamedPatternConverter.Convert(TextWriter > writer, LoggingEvent loggingEvent) in > c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Layout\Pattern\NamedPatternConverter.cs:line 125 > at log4net.Util.PatternConverter.Format(TextWriter writer, Object > state) in c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Util\PatternConverter.cs:line 173 > at log4net.Layout.PatternLayout.Format(TextWriter writer, LoggingEvent > loggingEvent) in c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Layout\PatternLayout.cs:line > 1117 > at log4net.Appender.AppenderSkeleton.RenderLoggingEvent(LoggingEvent > loggingEvent) in > c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Appender\AppenderSkeleton.cs:line 705 > at MyAppender.MyAppender.Append(LoggingEvent loggingEvent) in > E:\svn\trunk\MyAppender\MyAppender.cs:line 67 > at log4net.Appender.AppenderSkeleton.DoAppend(LoggingEvent > loggingEvent) in > c:\log4net\tags\2.0.7RC1\src\Appender\AppenderSkeleton.cs:line 317 > InnerException: -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)