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Christoph Kaser closed LOG4J2-2758.
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Thank you very much!

> RollingFileAppender: NPE when using a custom DirectFileRolloverStrategy 
> without fileName
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-2758
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-2758
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Appenders
>    Affects Versions: 2.12.1
>            Reporter: Christoph Kaser
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.13.1
>
>
>  
> I have created a custom RolloverStrategy which implements 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.DirectFileRolloverStrategy 
> (but does not extend DirectWriteRolloverStrategy).
> When I try to use this strategy in a RollingFileAppender with a filePattern, 
> but no fileName, log4j writes an exception to the console and does not work:
>  
> {noformat}
> 2020-01-13 17:22:49,024 StartUp-Thread ERROR An exception occurred processing 
> Appender CustomAppender java.lang.NullPointerException
>  at java.base/java.io.File.<init>(File.java:276)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.FileManager.createOutputStream(FileManager.java:190)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.getOutputStream(OutputStreamManager.java:166)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.writeToDestination(OutputStreamManager.java:261)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.FileManager.writeToDestination(FileManager.java:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.RollingFileManager.writeToDestination(RollingFileManager.java:244)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.flushBuffer(OutputStreamManager.java:293)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.OutputStreamManager.flush(OutputStreamManager.java:302)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.directEncodeEvent(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:199)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.tryAppend(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:190)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractOutputStreamAppender.append(AbstractOutputStreamAppender.java:181)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender.append(RollingFileAppender.java:312)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.tryCallAppender(AppenderControl.java:156)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender0(AppenderControl.java:129)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppenderPreventRecursion(AppenderControl.java:120)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AppenderControl.callAppender(AppenderControl.java:84)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.callAppenders(LoggerConfig.java:543)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.processLogEvent(LoggerConfig.java:502)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.log(LoggerConfig.java:485)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.LoggerConfig.log(LoggerConfig.java:460)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AwaitCompletionReliabilityStrategy.log(AwaitCompletionReliabilityStrategy.java:82)
>  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.Logger.log(Logger.java:161)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.tryLogMessage(AbstractLogger.java:2198)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.logMessageTrackRecursion(AbstractLogger.java:2152)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.logMessageSafely(AbstractLogger.java:2135)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.logMessage(AbstractLogger.java:2011)
>  at 
> org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.logIfEnabled(AbstractLogger.java:1983)
>  at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLogger.info(AbstractLogger.java:1320)
>  at IconParc.IpionServer.IpionServer.main(IpionServer.java:1154)
> {noformat}
> The reason for this behaviour is that the RollingFileAppender explicitely 
> checks for instances of DirectWriteRolloverStrategy instead of 
> DirectFileRolloverStrategy like its Builder does.
> I opened a PR (https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/331) that fixes 
> this behavior.
>  
>  



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