On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Williams < nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> wrote:
> First, a quick question: do we anticipate the next version to be beta6 or > rc1? Just curious. > As long as we are adding features, I'd like to keep rolling Betas. But it would also be OK to release 2.0 and add appenders later. I tried porting our app to 2.0 a couple of weeks ago but ran into lots of issues, so I'll need to take another stab at it in a couple of weeks again. We rely on a lot of 1.0 guts so I'll have to think about that some more... > I'm currently working on cleaning up compiler warnings throughout the > project and should have that completed soon. > Great! > > I want to go ahead and get the conversation started about database > appenders. I'd like to see two appenders: > > - A JdbcAppender that is capable of logging to any RDBMS for which there > is a JDBC driver. > - A MongoAppender that is capable of logging to a MongoDB database. > We should not need a MongoDB appender if there is a JDBC driver for it: docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/java/ > > The JdbcAppender and MongoAppender would, as far as I can tell, need > properties for mapping all of the possible logging event properties to > table columns (or Mongo equivalent). I don't really see any other way to > accomplish that. We could use layout patterns from the PatternLayout to > achieve this: <column name="columnName" pattern="PatternLayout > equivalent-pattern" /> > You can look at Log4J 1 for inspiration. Keep it simple for a start. I think version 1 just let's you specify a SQL INSERT instead of using some XML for mapping. > > I imagine the JdbcAppender having mutually exclusive properties for JDBC > URL/username/password, DataSource JNDI URL, and class.staticFactoryMethod > for obtaining a DataSource. > Keep is simple for the first cut ;) > > The MongoAppender would similarly have mutually exclusive properties for > connection information and class.statucFactoryMethod for obtaining a Mongo > instance. > > I'd like to take a stab at these after I complete fixing compiler > warnings, and wanted to start getting feedback/ideas and also see if anyone > has use cases for other NoSQL appenders. > Search the ML for my note on NoSQL, it looks like there is a JDBC-like API for NoSQL DBs. Gary -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
