Hi all,
As I have mentioned in my first mail, the issue is only in the OSGi
environment it seems. I had mistakenly added the appender as a OSGi bundle
in the non-OSGi environment. Could resolve the issue after changing the
package to a jar.
Thanks,
Nipuni
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Nipuni Piyabasi Perera <
nipuni880...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply.
>
> I have first tried my custom appender in OSGi environment which gave the
> errors above. But I am getting the same issue in non-OSGi environment too.
> It seems an issue with custom appender.
> AFAIK It is plugin annotation that make the appender visible to log4j2. I
> can't find any issue in my log4j2.xml and plugin configuration of the
> class. Is there any other places that I need to care about?
>
> Thanks,
> Nipuni
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OSGi does interesting things with ClassLoaders. Log4j has to be able to
>> access your plugin when it is configuring. If it isn’t in an accessible
>> ClassLoader it won’t see it. There have been a few people who are using
>> Log4j in an OSGi environment that have helped out with patches from time to
>> time. Perhaps one of them can help out?
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> > On Feb 3, 2016, at 6:07 AM, Nipuni Piyabasi Perera <
>> nipuni880...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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Email: nip...@wso2.com
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