On 2019/05/24 19:16:33, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Composite configuration implies that you are merging multiple configuration
> files. Yes, it would appear that the configuration being merged has one node
> with no configuration under it.
>
> If you only have a single configuration this shouldn’t happen.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On May 24, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Gaurav <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Getting NullPointerException in DefaultMergeStrategy class.
> >
> > codeblock -
> > "if
> > (targetNode.getAttributes().get(NAME).equals(node.getAttributes().get(NAME)))
> > "
> >
> > Probable suspect is that I've developed an appender similar to
> > failoverappender and it does not contain any child nodes.
> > e.g.
> >
> > <TestRollingFileAppender name="testRollingFileAppender"
> > targetAppenderName="rollingFileAppender" ignoreExceptions="false">
> > </TestRollingFileAppender>
> >
> > Stacktrace -
> >
> > Exception in thread "Log4j2-TF-28-ConfiguratonFileWatcher-16"
> > java.lang.NullPointerException
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.composite.DefaultMergeStrategy.mergConfigurations(DefaultMergeStrategy.java:139)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.composite.CompositeConfiguration.setup(CompositeConfiguration.java:122)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.initialize(AbstractConfiguration.java:235)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:249)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:545)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.onChange(LoggerContext.java:667)
> > at
> > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfiguratonFileWatcher$ReconfigurationRunnable.run(ConfiguratonFileWatcher.java:68)
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> >
> > Please assist.
> >
>
>
>
So, is there any way to fix this or should I ignore the nullpointer exception?
