Re: reusing a logger+appender

[Ralph Goers]

That is interesting. We had an email earlier this week from someone who had a 
log4j2.xml in a jar they couldn’t modify. He called that “EVIL.jar”. That said, 
I could understand including a log4j2-mycomponent.xml that gets merged with the 
application’s logging configuration. If you do that you just then need to know 
the names of the various logging configuration files you want to include.

Note that Log4j allows you to configure the 
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/appenders.html#ScriptAppenderSelector
 

 to determine whether an Appender should be configured or not.

Ralph

> On Feb 14, 2018, at 2:49 PM, Benjamin Jaton  wrote:
> 
> Yes I have been using the composite config feature, it does help.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to configure the logging of a component in the
> component itself, instead of having to add it in the initial logging
> configuration of all the potential applications that might use it.
> In particular if some components are loaded dynamically, we might not know
> in advance what will be used/necessary.
> Also defining appenders "just in case" they might be used is sometimes not
> ideal, as some appenders issue connections requests or create resources on
> creation.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Ralph Goers 
> wrote:
> 
>> Are you saying you want to merge a new configuration with the existing
>> one? Log4j supports a composite configuration but the files that make up
>> the composite have to be known from the beginning.
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>>> On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Benjamin Jaton 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am specifically asking about how to feed that conf in the log4j2
>> engine,
>>> are there methods to enrich the existing log4j2 appenders/loggers?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Matt Sicker  wrote:
>>> 
 You could potentially use JNDI to load and store your configuration if
 using Java EE. Otherwise, you could also set the config file name system
 property to locate a common config file (at least through the local file
 system or class path).
 
 On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 18:01, Benjamin Jaton 
 wrote:
 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to have a piece of code use Log4J2 to log events in a CSV
> format. So the appender and logger configuration are specific to this
 task.
> 
> The problem is that there are several JVMs that might invoke this task
 (not
> at the same time though). Therefore I would think that each of those
>> JVMs
> need to have the same definition of logger+appender in their log4j2
>> conf.
> 
> Is there a way to load a log4j2 file on demand that would make the
> appenders/loggers in it available? (without breaking the existing ones)
> 
> Or maybe you will think of a better way to do this?
> 
> Note: I am using JSON to configure log4j2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
> 
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 Matt Sicker 
 
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Re: reusing a logger+appender

[Benjamin Jaton]

Yes I have been using the composite config feature, it does help.

It would be nice to be able to configure the logging of a component in the
component itself, instead of having to add it in the initial logging
configuration of all the potential applications that might use it.
In particular if some components are loaded dynamically, we might not know
in advance what will be used/necessary.
Also defining appenders "just in case" they might be used is sometimes not
ideal, as some appenders issue connections requests or create resources on
creation.

Benjamin

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Ralph Goers 
wrote:

> Are you saying you want to merge a new configuration with the existing
> one? Log4j supports a composite configuration but the files that make up
> the composite have to be known from the beginning.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Benjamin Jaton 
> wrote:
> >
> > I am specifically asking about how to feed that conf in the log4j2
> engine,
> > are there methods to enrich the existing log4j2 appenders/loggers?
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Matt Sicker  wrote:
> >
> >> You could potentially use JNDI to load and store your configuration if
> >> using Java EE. Otherwise, you could also set the config file name system
> >> property to locate a common config file (at least through the local file
> >> system or class path).
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 18:01, Benjamin Jaton 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to have a piece of code use Log4J2 to log events in a CSV
> >>> format. So the appender and logger configuration are specific to this
> >> task.
> >>>
> >>> The problem is that there are several JVMs that might invoke this task
> >> (not
> >>> at the same time though). Therefore I would think that each of those
> JVMs
> >>> need to have the same definition of logger+appender in their log4j2
> conf.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to load a log4j2 file on demand that would make the
> >>> appenders/loggers in it available? (without breaking the existing ones)
> >>>
> >>> Or maybe you will think of a better way to do this?
> >>>
> >>> Note: I am using JSON to configure log4j2.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Benjamin
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Matt Sicker 
> >>
>
>
>
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Re: reusing a logger+appender

[Ralph Goers]

Are you saying you want to merge a new configuration with the existing one? 
Log4j supports a composite configuration but the files that make up the 
composite have to be known from the beginning.

Ralph

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Benjamin Jaton  wrote:
> 
> I am specifically asking about how to feed that conf in the log4j2 engine,
> are there methods to enrich the existing log4j2 appenders/loggers?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 4:37 PM, Matt Sicker  wrote:
> 
>> You could potentially use JNDI to load and store your configuration if
>> using Java EE. Otherwise, you could also set the config file name system
>> property to locate a common config file (at least through the local file
>> system or class path).
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 18:01, Benjamin Jaton 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I would like to have a piece of code use Log4J2 to log events in a CSV
>>> format. So the appender and logger configuration are specific to this
>> task.
>>> 
>>> The problem is that there are several JVMs that might invoke this task
>> (not
>>> at the same time though). Therefore I would think that each of those JVMs
>>> need to have the same definition of logger+appender in their log4j2 conf.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to load a log4j2 file on demand that would make the
>>> appenders/loggers in it available? (without breaking the existing ones)
>>> 
>>> Or maybe you will think of a better way to do this?
>>> 
>>> Note: I am using JSON to configure log4j2.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Benjamin
>>> 
>> --
>> Matt Sicker 
>> 



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Re: reusing a logger+appender

[Matt Sicker]

You could potentially use JNDI to load and store your configuration if
using Java EE. Otherwise, you could also set the config file name system
property to locate a common config file (at least through the local file
system or class path).

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 18:01, Benjamin Jaton 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to have a piece of code use Log4J2 to log events in a CSV
> format. So the appender and logger configuration are specific to this task.
>
> The problem is that there are several JVMs that might invoke this task (not
> at the same time though). Therefore I would think that each of those JVMs
> need to have the same definition of logger+appender in their log4j2 conf.
>
> Is there a way to load a log4j2 file on demand that would make the
> appenders/loggers in it available? (without breaking the existing ones)
>
> Or maybe you will think of a better way to do this?
>
> Note: I am using JSON to configure log4j2.
>
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
>
-- 
Matt Sicker