Custom appender not identified in OSGi environment

[Nipuni Piyabasi Perera]

Hi,

I have written a custom appender extending the log4j2 AbstractAppender. But
I am getting a runtime error[1]. I have added the plugin annotation[2] as
per the manual and the custom appender class contains factory method
createAppender() as well. I also have added the package name to
configuration element.
What am I missing here? Appreciate any input on this.

I have my log4j2.xml file as below:

<Configuration packages="org.my.custom.http.socket.appender">
    <Appenders>
        ...
        <Socket name="socket" host="localhost" port="4714">
      <!--PatternLayout pattern="[%d] %5p {%c} - %m%ex%n"/-->
    </Socket>
        <HTTPSocket name="HTTP_APPENDER" host="localhost" port="8888">
   <-------------------------------------
New Appender
    </HTTPSocket>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <Root level="info" includeLocation="true">
            ...
            <AppenderRef ref="HTTP_APPENDER"/>
        </Root>
        <Logger name="my.custom.deployer" level="info" additivity="true">
                <AppenderRef ref="socket"/>
    </Logger>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>


[1] ERROR Appenders contains an invalid element or attribute "HTTPSocket"
[2] @Plugin(name = "HTTPSocket", category = "Core", elementType = "appender",
printObject = true)

Thanks,
Nipuni

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