I don't believe there is an API in ConfigurationBuilder that uses actual plugin objects. That would certainly be a new feature. However, you did mention combining configuration files which is already implemented through composite configuration: http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html#CompositeConfiguration
On 17 November 2016 at 09:29, COHEN, STEVEN M <sc1...@att.com> wrote: > I am trying to construct a program that basically reads a bunch of log4j2 > configuration files and combines them into one, writing this back to disk > using the new ConfigurationBuilder.writeXmlConfiguration(OutputStream) > method. > > But I run up against what seems to me to be a gap in the API unless I am > missing something: > Having created a ConfigurationBuilder for the destination file and having > read one of the to-be-combined configuration files into a Configuration > object, there appears to be nothing in the ConfigurationBuilder interface > that would allow, say, one of the appenders from the read-in configuration > to be copied, as a whole object,into the builder, short of deconstructing > it down to its constituent elements and adding them one by one. > > Is there a way to copy an appender from one configuration to another > without drilling down into all its constituent parts? And similarly, a way > to copy a logger from one configuration to another without drilling down to > its constituent parts? Or must I write all this code myself? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
