Thanks, that almost works for me, and will have to do, I suppose. The problem is that I was hoping to be able to load each subconfig in first, filtering in any property definitions, which would then lead to writable output that would not contain properties, but their expanded values. It would seem that with this approach, it would almost be better to not use properties at all in the subconfigs.
I guess this would have to be a feature request, but in the meantime I might give CompositeConfiguration a try. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Sicker [mailto:boa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:34 AM To: Log4J Users List <log4j-user@logging.apache.org> Subject: Re: Copying appenders and loggers from a confgiruation to a builder 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>
