Remko Popma created LOG4J2-153:
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Summary: Add a method to the Layout interface to allow Loggers to
discover if any of their Appenders need the location StackTraceElement.
Key: LOG4J2-153
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-153
Project: Log4j 2
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Remko Popma
Use Case: any asynchronous Logger or Appender has this problem:
should it take a snapshot of the call stack (as implemented in
Log4jLogEvent.getSource) or not?
This is an expensive method (1600+ nanoseconds on a machine with 2.9GHz cores)
so you only want to call it if you need it. Currently there is no way to
discover if the location information is used by any of the configured layouts.
If the Layout interface has a method that indicates whether the layout calls
the LogEvent.getSource method, then the Logger can query its LoggerConfig if
any of the configured Appenders has a Layout which needs location info. (Maybe
boolean needsLocationInfo() would be a good name?)
With this information, a Logger can construct Log4jLogEvents with a non-null
dummy StackTraceElement location if none of the layouts downstream need
location info. The non-null dummy location would prevent LogEvent.getSource
from taking a call stack snapshot.
The current AsynchAppender class would get an immediate performance boost from
this, and custom asynchronous Loggers or Appenders would reap the same benefits.
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