I find the behavior of logger.whatever(format, ....) rather confusing.
1. What bothers me most: Forgetting a brace means that an argument gets
ignored, which may mean waiting one more week till something like
logger.error("Rare problem: {}, problem, details)
fires again. A simple fix would be to follow Guava's implementation like in
https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava/src/
com/google/common/base/Preconditions.java#L154
which says "Unmatched arguments will be appended to the formatted message
in square braces".
This is a simple fix and the behavior gets changed only in case of a user
error. I'd gladly contribute the fix.
2. A strange thing is that an exception needs no braces. So
logger.info("Foo {} bar {}", o1, o2)
leaves {} behind if o2 happens to be an exception. This is no big deal, but
it's undocumented. My logfiles are full of braces as it took me a while
till I found it out.
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