Hello Zac, AppenderBase will not invoke the append() method less the appender has the started flag set to true.
-- Ceki Gülcü Sponsoring SLF4J/logback/reload4j at https://github.com/sponsors/qos-ch On 7/25/2022 6:38 PM, Zac Harvey wrote: > Java 11 and logback-classic-1.2.11 here. I'm trying to write my own > custom appender and am following this Baeldung article > <https://www.baeldung.com/custom-logback-appender> to test it out. > > My *src/main/java/myapp/logging/CatAppender* appender (on the runtime > classpath): > > public class CatAppender extends AppenderBase<ILoggingEvent> { > @Override > protected void append(ILoggingEvent eventObject) { > System.out.println("meow"); > } > } > > My *src/main/resources/logback.xml*: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <configuration debug="true"> > > <appender name="cat" class="myapp.logging.CatAppender"/> > > <root level="info"> > <appender-ref ref="cat" /> > </root> > > </configuration> > > In my *build.gradle* I specify to use logback and Lombok: > > plugins { > id "io.freefair.lombok" version '6.4.0' > } > > dependencies { > implementation ( > 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.2.11' > ,'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.16' > ) > } > > And then in my Java code I use Lombok to inject an SLF4J logger like so: > > @Slf4j > public class SomethingDoer { > > public void doSomething() { > log.info <http://log.info>("this should invoke the CatAppender..."); > } > > } > > But when *SomethingDoer#doSomething()* runs, I don't see a meow printed > to my STDOUT console. Have I wired anything up incorrectly here? > _______________________________________________ logback-user mailing list logback-user@qos.ch http://mailman.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user
