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Remko Popma commented on LOG4J2-1255:
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Taking another good hard look at this, we currently have a lot of entry/exit 
methods:

{code}
entry() : void           // deprecated
entry(Object...) : void
exit() : void            // deprecated
exit(R) : R              // deprecated
traceEntry() : EntryMessage
traceEntry(String, Object...) : EntryMessage
traceEntry(Supplier...) : EntryMessage
traceEntry(String, Supplier...) : EntryMessage
traceEntry(Message) : EntryMessage
traceExit() : void
traceExit(R) : R
traceExit(String, R) : R
traceExit(EntryMessage) : void
traceExit(EntryMessage, R) : R
traceExit(Message, R) : R

// assume we deprecate MessageSupplier and remove these methods
traceEntry(String, MessageSupplier...) : EntryMessage
traceEntry(MessageSupplier) : EntryMessage
traceExit(MessageSupplier, R) : R
{code}

Do we really need all of them? How about cutting it down to something like this?
{code}
entry() : void           // deprecated
entry(Object...) : void
exit() : void            // deprecated
exit(R) : R              // deprecated
traceEntry() : EntryMessage
traceEntry(String, Object...) : EntryMessage
traceEntry(Message) : EntryMessage
traceExit() : void
traceExit(R) : R
traceExit(String, R) : R
traceExit(Message, R) : R
{code}

I propose leaving out Suppliers altogether in the initial cut until there is a 
need.

Gary, would this cover your use cases?

> Logger.entry and Logger.exit should support Messages.
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1255
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1255
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: API
>    Affects Versions: 2.5
>            Reporter: Ralph Goers
>            Assignee: Ralph Goers
>             Fix For: 2.6
>
>
> Logger.entry and Logger.exit currently do not support Message objects. This 
> reduces the flexibility of what can be logged on entry and exit to methods.



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