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Ralph Goers commented on LOG4J2-1653:
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1. The right solution is to make getTimeBefore work correctly. I could do that
using cron-utils but that would only fix the TriggeringPolicy for Java 8, which
is not really acceptable. I'll have to look into what else can be done.
2. I modified the initialize method to only initialize once, which eliminates
the problems you noted.
> CronTriggeringPolicy uses wrong naming and produces NPE
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>
> Key: LOG4J2-1653
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1653
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.7
> Reporter: Georg Friedrich
> Assignee: Ralph Goers
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.8
>
> Attachments: ConfigurationScheduler.patch, CronTriggeringPolicy.patch
>
>
> After having worked on LOG4J2-1649 I found another serious issue in
> combination with the CronTriggeringPolicy.
> The policy has some very weird behaviour when it comes to naming rolled over
> files and also creates a NPE on specific configurations.
> The following is broken:
> * when using "evaluateOnStartup" a NPE is the result of an immediate rollover
> * when no rollover is happing at startup the first rollover produces a file
> that uses the time of the rollover (e.g. rollover is happening at midnight
> 2010-05-05 producing a rolled over file named log-2010-05-05)
> * but it becomes worse: all files after the first rollover are named using a
> date of the "previous rollover date minus a second" - when using the previous
> example this results in:
> ** first rollover happening at midnight 2010-05-05, resulting in file
> log-2010-05-05
> ** next rollover happening at 2010-05-06, resulting in file log-2010-05-04
> ** next rollover happening at 2010-05-07, resulting in file log-2010-05-05
> again (!) so the previously saved file gets removed!
> I would expect the file to be named after the content it contains. E.g. a
> file rolled over at 2010-05-05 should be named log-2010-05-04 as it contains
> all the data of the 2010-05-04.
> So I decided to write a patch for those problems too (again the sources of
> Log4J2 2.7 were used). Unfortunately I needed a method to calculate the last
> cron date. The CronExpression class has such a method ("getTimeBefore") but
> nobody implemented this one since years.
> The only quick solution I found: I used another 3rd party library to fix this
> called cronutils. The solution I wrote uses the latest version of this
> library which now only supports Java 8.
> My guess is that you don't want Log4J2 to only support Java 8 - if this is
> the case you will have to use a different library/version or whatever to be
> able to calculate the last cron date.
> This patch should also fix the following bugs: LOG4J2-1640, LOG4J2-1621,
> LOG4J2-1487, LOG4J2-1474 (and maybe even more - I didn't feel like searching
> the whole Jira ;-) )
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